Sam Digital Music RST

Bio
Sam Started playing guitar in the 9th grade at the age of 14 years old. He enjoys all types of music, a musician that he enjoys is Jimi Hendrix. Sam enjoys sports such as hockey, tennis and volleyball, he enjoys all sports and his favourite class is physical education. He has played multiple instruments in the past such as piano, alto saxophone and recorder. Even though he doesn't currently play these instruments they contribute to his musical skills and help him learn the guitar. 

Repertoire List​

1. ​"No More Tears" by Ozzy Osbourne
2. "Dry County" by Bon Jovi
3. "The Trooper" by Iron Maiden
4. "Who did you think I was" by John Mayer
5. "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix

List of Performances

• ​Performance test #1 (March 2017)
• Performance test #2 (April 2017)
• Performance test 3 (April 2017)
• Performance test #1 (2018)
• Performance test #2 (2018
• Numerous piano recitals

Musical Accomplishments

• 6 years of piano lessons
• 3 years of Alto saxophone lessons
• 6 months of guitar lessons 

My Song Intro​

• ​Title: One Way Ticket To Hell
• Genre: Country/ Blues- The song fits this genre as it has many of the classic instruments country music has such as electric guitar, drums, bass, slide guitar. It fits sort of a blues genre as well as it follows a 12 bar blues formatting.
• Instrumentation: Rhythem Guitar (Ethan), Lead Electric Guitar (Me), Slide Guitar (Sam L), Drums (Zach), Bass(Ryan), Vocals (Sam C), Cow Bell (Eric), Keys (Nick S)
• Story Behind My Song: I was playing at home one day and found a really cool country blues lick that fit into a really simple chord progression, but yet sounded so cool and complex. Then Sam C and Sam L and I got together and started playing around for about 10 minutes. Sam ended up writing some lyrics for the song. Then Sam L and I decided to make this song together and add 8 different parts. Once we got 8 people playing different instruments, we started to jam and this is what came out. The lyrics are about a small town country boy that loses everything including his soul to the devil, and he finds his "one way ticket to hell". Shout out to everyone in the song, who help us out creating it. It was a lot of fun!

My Song Video

My song (Lyrics and Chords)
 
​Tuning: E A D G B E
Intro Chords: A D A E D A
Verse:
A
I lost my girl I lost my home
I lost my job I lost my soul
Chorus:
D
I sold it to devil baby 
                                         A             E     D        
Oh got my on way ticket to hell baby
                                          A
Oh got my one way ticket to hell     

Verse 2:
A
Drank all my whisky had it on the rocks 
This mans bugging me he is about to get shot 

Chorus: 
D
I sold my soul to the devil baby 
                                          A        
I got my one way ticket into hell
E   D                                             A             
Ohhh I got my one way ticket into hell      

Bridge:
A D A  E D A

Verse 3:

I aint' a Christian  I don't pray to the lord
Music is my sorrow there is nothing I can afford

 Chorus: 
D
I sold my soul to the devil baby 
                                          A        
I got my one way ticket into hell
E   D                                             A             
Ohhh I got my one way ticket into hell       

Instrumentation Soloing:

A D E D A 
A D E D
                                          A
I got my one way ticket into hell

Ending Instrumentation: 
A D E D A x 1
                                          A
​I got my one way ticket into hell baby

Reflection Video
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