The Rob Balducci Band Live in NY

[rbalducci]

Hi All! if any of you are in New York, try and make it down.... Thanks

Favored Nations Recording Artist THE ROB BALDUCCI BAND will be performing on:


Wednesday, March 6th Time: 7:30 PM & 9:00 PM

THE ELBOW ROOM
144 Bleecker Street
(between Thompson & Laguardia)
New York, NY

Rob Balducci will be performing live at 7:30pm with the band Masterpiece, featuring Lorenzo LaRock on electric violin, and at 9:00pm the Rob Balducci Band will hit the stage.

[Incidents Happen]

never heard of him...is that you?

[rbalducci]

Yes... I am posting about my band,....

If you want to know more about my playing and stuff.. please check out http://www.robbalducci.com and http://www.mp3.com/robbalducci

and http://www.favorednations.com

Thanks

[Incidents Happen]

sweet.

so since your a pro, can you tell a youngster (im 14) what the best thing is to do to improve my playing?

[rbalducci]

Well , The first and most basic thing is to practice, practice, practice.

Get yourself a good teacher. If you are from New York, I give lessons also. If you or anyone else in interested. Please feel free to e-mail me about signing up for lessons..
rob@robbalducci.com

It really depends where you are at etc... I would say start yourself out with doing alot of technique exercises. To getyour hands into shape.... and get yourslef an chord book and start memorizing chord shapes etc...

[Incidents Happen]

well i practice at least 3 hours a day, usually towards 5...

i have been practicing some songs, the A and G major scales extensively, and am getting decent at them. I plan on moving it to other keys too...

[lalimacefolle]

Dude, cool that you got signed at favored nations. Keep up the good work...

[Incidents Happen]

signed artist! woah, some reason i skipped that part in your part , ha.

well tell us your guitar story, man! we got a signed artist here, i wanna hear how long YOU practiced and what you did and when you got your guitar, etc.

[rbalducci]

Ok..... I will try and get as much in as I can... but you can get a lot of info from going to my sites etc.. see by bio's and stuff.... http://www.robbalducci.com and music on http://www.mp3.com/robbalducci

I first started playing guitar when I was 11 years old. I got my first introduction to the guitar from my older sister Barbara... I ended up getting into it very much. I started taking lessons at this place in queens called Larry Downs Music. first solo I learned like at age 12 was Led Zeppelin's Good times Bad Times.... I was in my first band vision at age 14. I was the youngest member. The rest of the band were like 17 and 18. (if you go to my photo gallery you can see a pic from this first show in the past to present section) it is the first photo.

oops I almost forgot, I got my first electric guitar at age 13. My aunt bought me a Gibson The Paul Model (which you can also see on my site) I have fond memories polishing the hell out of that guitar... and I used to love the way it smelt... I still to this day love the smell of new guitars.... hehhhee lol

I always wanted to learn more and more about music. I ended up teaching at Larry Downs music when I was 16/17 but then I took the students and starting teaching out of my home.(Which I still do, till this day)

The most I practiced was about 12 hours a day. I think that all players must get a woodshed practice routine sometime in there career. How I used to do it was... I would wake up two hours before I went to school and get in my exercises..Then I would come home do my homework from 3 to 6. Then practice from 6:30 till like 2 or three in the morning... I would do this.. I got used to getting no sleep .... till this day I do not sleep that much. During the summer, I would only really practice.... stay in all day...I would get up at 11 or 12 noon and then practice all day until 11 or 1 am at night.

I used to break up my routine. I would do hammer on pull off exercises.... then I would do alternate picking exercises. Then I would practice arpeggios, next would be scales and modes (playing them in all keys) Then I would move on to chords and sight reading etc... I would save fun time and noodling to the last thing ( as a reward sort of)... and by that time I was so warmed up I would jam along with records and my favorite music etc...

I ended up entering Guitar contest's and won a couple... Best Guitarist in New York, I came in second at this Hot licks competion at New Yorks Limelight.. etc.....

I ended up going to a music college Five Towns college and I got a degree in Music performance/ theory and music education.

I released my first record in 1995/96 Balance on RED/Sony music. I have endorsements and do clinics for Ibanez,D'addario, Dimarzio, Morley and Eventide..

I released an online cd only called Eye Bleed on mp3.com/robbalducci and Now Favored Nations Entertainment just released my new CD Mantra in Japan first on Dec 20th 2001.

Hope I answered some of your questions...

[Edited by rbalducci on 02-25-2002 at 08:47 PM]

[Incidents Happen]

sweet man.