JaysonHalloway + Musician in Thrall, TX

SEEKING

ABOUT

Hello,
My name is Josh, just moved to the area. My musical background is eclectic--I have a huge soft spot for emo and math rock, but I grew up playing mostly punk rock and nu-metal (and I apologize to anyone who bore witness to that latter phase). I performed in my college's Jazz band as their guitarist, though I'd honestly consider my primary instrument to be bass. I write my own material, but am also totally willing to be a component in someone else's process. I am content with a background role, as I am not necessarily looking to be a star. I simply love music and wish to make it my eventual living. I can play most standard rock instruments (Guitar/Drums/Bass) to an above average level, and I have 9 years of choir experience. I also used to be a music major on a voice scholarship. So long as everyone involved is passionate **and** amicable, I am willing to fill whatever role you need! I can keep up with odd time signatures and have a fairly large chord vocabulary, though I'm not much of a shredder.

Q: Can you play metal?
A: I can tremelo pick power chords and diminished chords very quickly. Does that count..? If not, I am probably not near metal enough for you.

Q: So you're a Jazz guitarist?
A: So I've been told? I wouldn't consider it my specialty, but I have experience. It would explain a lot of my chord voicing choices (I love min9, maj7, and 13 chords).

Q: What do you bring that another musician couldn't?
A: Really big hands and an afro. Ever play a chord spanning 6 frets? It's painful, but plausible with my monster hands. For guitar in particular, I tend to play very wide voicings, be it stacked 5ths, adding a 4th in the bass, or doing very fast triadic movements akin to The Smiths (Johnny Marr is a guitar hero of mine).

Q: How much theory do you know?
A: HA!HAHAHA!HA...Ha... Oh... Um...
*Enough.* I flunked out as a music student and can't read sheet music very well, but I can follow Roman numerals (I-IV-V-bVI-bVII-I etc.), know how to play in pretty much any key, and I successfully made it through college level Theory II off of intuition and sincere effort. I play mostly by ear.

Q: Any other hobbies?
A: I am an avid gamer and follower of e-sports, particularly League of Legends. I also try my hand at composing video game music, with my biggest influences being Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy/Square Enix), Shoji Meguro (Persona/ATLUS), and Toby Fox (Undertale/Indie).

Q: I feel like I know too much about you. Can we stop..?
A: Fair enough... Though if you have questions, text 817 240 9055 to contact me. I am open to most all auditions within the Austin/Round Rock area if I feel the music is up my alley :D

Also if you made it this far, thank you for parsing through that vaguely coherent wall of text.

Screen name:

JaysonHalloway

Member since:

Apr 08 2015

Active within 2 weeks

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years playing music:

14

Gigs played:

50 to 100

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to gig:

2-3 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

WALL OF TEXT ROUND 2:

Cursive, Criteria, At the Drive In, Sunny Day Real Estate, American Football, System of a Down, The Get Up Kids, My Chemical Romance, Mineral, Texas is the Reason, Glassjaw, Chiodos, Frnk Iero and the Celebration, Rise Against, Sweet Pill, Rush, An Endless Sporadic, Chinese Football, tricot, TTNG, Pink Mexico, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Piebald, Streetlight Manifesto, Sincere Engineer, Serafin, Pool Kids, Chevelle, Something Corporate, Manic Street Preachers, Saves the Day, The Cardigans, Elephant Gym, Mr. Bungle, Hum, Joy Division, The Smiths, and more.

If you need a more exhaustive list, I am open to chatting about it.

Instrument experience:

Vocalist:

Advanced

Vocalist - Tenor:

Advanced

Rhythm Guitar:

Advanced

Lead Guitar:

Advanced

Bass Guitar:

Advanced

Background Singer:

Advanced

Keyboard:

Beginner

EQUIPMENT

Instruments: Mexican Fender Strat, Squire Jazzmaster, Squire Jazz Bass (5-string), Squire P-Bass (4-string), Grestch Streamliner, Fender John 5 Telecaster, and a Spear Les Paul-ish thing... It's pretty and plays well, I promise >_>

Amps: Kustom Hard Coupe ‘78 with Paired cab
Peavy Valve King 1 with Marshall cab.
Bugera Vintage 22 Head
Ampeg PF 500 w/ Mark Bass 4x10

Pedal Board: Electroharmonix Ocean 11 reverb, TC Electronic Flashback X2 Delay, Tonebone Hot British Distortion, Vodoo Lab Sparkle Drive, DIGITECH Multi-Chorus, Electroharmonix Pitchfork, Line 6 Tonecore Uber Metal Distortion, Stagg Overdrive Plus, and a Dunlop Cry Baby (man... I didn't realize I had this many pedals until I had to list them...)

Recording Software/Extras: Reason 11 DAW, Bias AMP 2 Elite, BIAS FX 2 Elite, EZ Drummer 2, 3 D100 Microphones, 1 Peavey Thump Speaker/Monitor, Behringer 16 channel digital mixer.

MUSIC