kenohki

Description:

Screen Name:

kenohki

Sex:

M

Age:

33

Studio Musician:

No

Level Of Commitment:

Moderately Committed

Years Playing Music:

14

Gigs Played:

50 to 100

Tend to Practice:

2-3 times per week

Most available:

Nights

Looking to form an electronic-infused, jazzy, funk, ambient music project.

I'm currently looking for a partner who can play guitar, piano/keyboards, and have some music software experience. I mainly have a rock background, and have learned jazz drumming and techniques for the past 3 years. I've learned how to use Reason music software for the past 2 years, and would like to go into that direction with the right partner(s). I'm also learning Mackie Tracktion 3, which I had purchased recently.

I'm specifically looking for musicians who have at least 10 years experience. I discovered drums by accident in 1988. Since then, I developed my drumming and played drums more frequently, from 1994 to present.

I played with put-together bands for events in the past and never committed to any one band or group of musicians. I then found myself committing to a band called, The Velvet Ash in 2003. I was their former drummer from 2003 - 2006, spanning 50+ gigs during that period.

Here are my influences - electronic-infused music, jazz (not smooth jazz, more like swing and jazz funk), classic rock (Van Halen, The Police), some metal (Faith No More), funk/soul (Chaka Khan, the JB's, James Brown, Lyn Collins, The Emotions, The Meters, Nite Liters, Bob James, etc) and I find Bang Camaro to be a fun concept band.

Drummers that have inspired my drumming: Stewart Copeland, Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Gadd, Gene Krupa.

So what I'm trying to get to is, let's create a mix of acoustic and electronic music that is jazzy, a touch of ambient, funk-driven, and has rock appeal. Is that even possible?

Goals: To create good music, have fun, do recordings, and see where it goes from there.

If you happen to be in the area (Long Beach), e-mail me back.

Here are my music samples:

http://www.eyestereo.com/mp3/mark

Influences:

Drummers's styles whom I aspire to learn: Vinnie Colaiuta, Stewart Copeland, Steve Gadd; Genres: rock, swing and bigband jazz, bebop, funk, trip hop, lounge, electronic (Amon Tobin, Art of Noise, Bonobo, Square Pusher, Mocheeba, etc.)

Equipment List:

Tama Rockstar 5-piece drum kit, Yamaha 13" Musashi Oak snare, 14" DW maple snare, Zildjian, Sabian, Paiste cymbals, drum sticks, brushes, Reason 4, Ableton Live 5, USB mixer

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