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School Rock Band Winner

Winner of Singapore International Schools Rock Band Festival 2010

My son’s band is the Winner of Singapore International Schools Rock Band Festival 2010

I am so proud he has made such great progress towards being a promising lead guitarist in Singapore. This achievement is even more gratifying considering that he has only started playing the guitar less than 3 years ago.

Having toured with his band in Japan during the March 2010 school holidays as part of his school contingent has certainly improved his guitar techniques enabling him and his band to clinch the Platinum Award (top award) in the recent Singapore International Schools Rock Band Contest amid strong competition amongst the expatriate student bands whose members come from Canada, UK and USA, among others.

Even his guitar tutor (a graduate from the prestigious Berkelee College of Music) was most impressed with his guitar technique and is couching him so he can take his Grade 8 Music Exams this year.  This would enable him to be a certified guitar tutor is he wants to.

The Berkelee alumni includes some of the most distinguished performers in the world including Stevie Vai, John Mayer, Steven Tyler, Quincy Jones, Diana Krall, John Petrucci (and two other Dream Theatre members), Kevin Eubanks, Jan Hammer, Bruce Hornsby, Juliana Hatfield, Keith Jarrett, Chaka Khan, Jeff Lorber, Amiee Mann, Arif Mardin, Branford Marsalis to name but a few.

Steve Vai, John Petrucci and Steven Tyler are some of my son’s musical influences currently.

His next big challenge is to build his vocal technique by enrolling with a well known, certified Seth Riggs Speech Level Singing SLS Studio in Singapore (Daniel Singh – one of the top vocal coaches in Asia).

Even if he does not wish to go into a singing / performing career, this training will make him a better speaker / presenter as it will enable him to use his voice more effectively.

 

Winner of Rock Festival Competition 2010 for Singapore International Schools

Winner of Singapore International Schools Rock Festival Competition 2010

 

This video is from my son’s band performance at the Singapore International Schools Rock Festival Competition 2010.  Its a rock classic “Daddy Lover Brother Little Boy” (click here) on YouTube

In this video my son performs “Green Tinted Sixties Mind” also from the Singapore International Schools Rock Festival Competition 2010 via YouTube (click here)

Hope you’ll enjoy it

My son’s past performance here (Joe Satriani – Love Thing) 2010 click here

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