User:Abraham Castaneda

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Abraham Castañeda

Abraham "The Music Man" Castañeda (born January 5, 1988) is the lead/rythm guitarist and back-up vocals of the band Gundown

1 My Life
2 How It All Began
3 Instruments
4 Link(s)
5 History of Instruments
6 Interests

[edit] My Life

I was born in January 5, 1988, in the city of Redondo Beach. Nothing really intersting happend in my early years of childhood. I remember when I was around five years old, I would be running around everywhere. And I remember one day I got tired and I went inside the house, and my uncle was playing guitar. I was really amazed at just seeing him play, I also remember telling myself that I would never be capable of doing something like that. Then in the year of 1997 I recieved the oportunity to enroll in a music class. When I finally went into class, I was practically two weeks late. These classes only lasted four weeks, and I came on the Friday of the second week. When I came back on that Monday, I was already ahead of everyone else. I was really surprised with myself, especially thinking that I would never be capable of playing a musical instrument. A lot of people don't consider the Recorder a "real" instrument, but that is what I started with. I later advanced myself to the Clarinet and the Violin. Then I tried aroun twelve other instruments. After four years I finally picked up the Guitar. It was easy for me to learn especially since I already had the passion for it, and since I already have been playing the violin for four years.

[edit] How It All Began

When I was really young I never thought I would be a musician even less a composer. When I barely startes school, I always wanted to "fit in" so I would listen to rap (even though I never liked it) but I was never treated kindly or with any respect. When I finally reached the fourth grade, I took my first music class, I was extremely happy playing music, but all my "friends" would always put me down and make me feel miserable. When I hit the sixth grade is when I started listening to rock music, and a short time after I finally had enough of "fitting in". The reason I like rock music is because, you need to have real talent to be doing what you are really doing, instead of haveing a little box play your music. Also, I have always enjoyed a challenge, and in rap there is no challenge. At first I would listen to bands like Blink 182, The Offspring, and even Linkin Park. After a year or so, I started getting into metal music, because I started noticing how much harder the music was to play. Around the same time that I started getting into metal music the movie Armageddon came out. The really famouse scene where he tells his' daughter that he wont be able to return home, there is a really sad song playing in the background. When I heard that song in the background, that was the song that inspired me to become a composer. At first my music was extremely simple. As the years progressed I started teaching myself music theory, and I also started listening to more less-known bands such as, Children Of Bodom, Rhapsody (band), Dream Theater, or even Rise Against. This gave me more ideas for my sogns that I wrote. It made me be more "picky", I guess you can say, about the structure of the song and so on. Everytime I need a motivation I would watch the movie Armageddon, or I would just simply listen to music. I will always play my music at random, so that I won't only get a certain genre in my head.

[edit] Instruments

My electric guitar is an ESP LTD F-200 with,
Arrowhead inlays
All-black hardware
Basswood body
Maple neck
Floyd Rose-licensed tremolo
Extra-jumbo frets
2 EMG H-Z humbuckers