ABOUT ME
When I was little, all I wanted to do was play guitar.
Okay, so that's a bit of an exaggeration. When I was 7 or 8 years old, I begged my mom and dad for a guitar. Christmas 2012 was when I got my first guitar. It was this half-sized Fender acoustic. I've still got it; it's hanging on my bedroom wall. I was a decent player for a couple of years. I could play simple melodies and I could play some chords, but when I got my first electric guitar, it all changed.
I didn't play a whole lot before I got my electric. I just did what I had to to get by with my guitar teacher. But when I got my electric, I fell in love. In August 2018, right before I turned 14, I went to Guitar Center with my mom and dad, used some prize money that I had won, and bought my first electric guitar and amp. It was a Squier Bullet Telecaster in Surf Green with a white pickguard. Gorgeous guitar. The amp was a Fender Mustang I POC modeling amp. That gear changed my life. I started playing daily. I wasn't really progressing in leaps and bounds, but I slowly got better, was playing chords really smoothly, and totally fell in love with the instrument. I was playing at church, got a couple pedals, really making it my own.
Boom. March 2020. We all remember it. Good 'ol COVID-19. I can genuinely say that those three-ish months that I was in lock down in 2020 were the most transformative months of my life as a musician. I played upwards of 3 or 4 hours per day. I ran through strings, I got blisters, bloody fingers, and every other guitar related injury that you can think of because of how much I played. I started getting more into pedals. I consumed hours of JHS, Rhett Shull, and That Pedal Show videos on YouTube, plus dozens on "Worship Pedalboard" videos wherever I could find them. I just wanted to learn and get better and I really did. It was awesome.
Since then, I've kept it up. I play all the time, whether it's in my room alone, with friends, at church, or recording. I've spent dozens of hours crafting my sounds and tones, trying to find the best sound that I can.
Playing and making music means the world to me. I am blessed to get to do it as frequently as I do and at the levels that I do. If you've made it this far, thanks. This is kinda a goofy little side project right now, but maybe this will become something serious one day. Enjoy!
