SEEKING
Accordion, Acoustic Guitar, Background Singer, Bagpipes, Banjo, Bass Guitar, Cello, Clarinet, DJ, Dobro, Drums, Electronic Music, Fiddle, Flute, Harmonica, Harp, Keyboard, Lead Guitar, Mandolin, Other, Other Percussion, Piano, Rhythm Guitar, Saxophone, Steel guitar, Trombone, Trumpet, Ukulele, Upright bass, Violin, Vocalist, Vocalist - Alto, Vocalist - Baritone, Vocalist - Bass, Vocalist - Soprano, Vocalist - Tenor.ABOUT
I am looking for all types of paid work.I have been in a signed band and done many recording sessions for released albums and singles. I play acoustic and electric guitar in styles ranging from jazz, to outright shredding metal. I am self employed as a working musician and i also teach private guitar lessons up to advanced levels.I can not join any band which is unpaid, as I simply need to work as a performing musician to pay my bills.I am a reader if needed and also play some keyboards as well as bass and even some drums, but guitar is my mainstay.
Contact me here or shoot me a private email to
cjberryguitarist@ hot mail.co.uk
or via my website
http://cjberryguitarist1.wixsite/cjberry
- Screen name:
- CJBERRY
- Member since:
- Sep 03 2018
- Active within 2 weeks
- Level of commitment:
- Very Committed
- Years playing music:
- 35
- Gigs played:
- Over 100
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 6-7 nights a week
- Most available:
- Nights
Influences
Jimi Hendrix, Richie Blackmore, Carlos Santana, John Mclaughlin, Joe Pass, Wes Mongomery, Steve Vai
Instrument experience:
- Acoustic Guitar:
- Expert
- Bass Guitar:
- Expert
- Electronic Music:
- Expert
- Rhythm Guitar:
- Expert
- Lead Guitar:
- Expert
- Keyboard:
- Advanced
- Trumpet:
- Intermediate
- Saxophone:
- Intermediate
EQUIPMENT
Ibanez Jem7v, Marshal 100 watt combo valve amp, various FX pedals, Cordoba spanish ( fishman internal pick up) berringer practice amp
MUSIC
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QUICK FIX
QUICK FIXChris Reid sent me this track as some drums bass and piano...I dropped some guitars and a synth doubling the lines , a Tenor saxophone solo and a little pad and keys action on it Nice pace to this at 160Bpm it's my kinda bag. Nice one Chris. Lets do some more..
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Time Track CJ BERRY VERSION
Time Track CJ BERRY VERSIONThis is a cover version I just finished of a Chic Corea electric band song from the album light years entitled TIME TRACK It took me around five long days to do this. It was possibly the hardest thing Ive ever transcribed and then recorded. I wont say i got it 100% note for note but its pretty damned close. THE STORY: I looked all over the internet to try to find a midi file of it and it just didn't exist.. then.. i looked at buying the book but because its from the 1980s it costs like $150 for 20 odd pages of score. So I sat down with the CD and transcribed the fucker, note by note with a keyboard and mouse, I didn't play ANY of the midi in at all i wrote each note individually and very painstakingly.. Even though I took main accents for the bass and drums and one or two of the sax solos and guitar fills i transcribed, ( I got pretty much all of chic's leads and some of the supporting guitars played by Frank Gambale) I invented a lot of my own drums bass licks and and sounds for it and gave the guitar most of the melodies chic played it was pretty fun..but as i say it was really hard work too. CJ
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The Flash-Darkside
The Flash-DarksideAll guitars drums and all synths composed and played by by CJBERRY...Bass composed and played by JAMES NOBLE. * note-James Noble's input was so creativethat I actually changed the track at a one point to use the bassline he had written for a whole new section..what a great collaboration this was.. CJ
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Cosmic Rays
Cosmic Rays
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Night of vision
Night of vision
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What a rush
What a rush'WHAT A RUSH'........... a first draft at something that's been hanging around in my musical closet for some time It's in 6/8 and based on a two chord structure E major and F# major.. its a Modal piece so it's like E Lydian over the E chords and F# Mixo-lydian over the F# chords in other words the actual scale used throughout is the key of B major all arpeggios and scales etc...
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Meteorite
MeteoriteMeteorite is a jazz tune in the modal jazz tradition of Miles Davis' 'so what' and john Coltrane's 'impressions' although the soloing is not anywhere near their level the tune is a kind of tribute and a salute to their wonderful modal concepts
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Electro-plate
Electro-plateElectro-plated metalized
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Dr Glock
Dr Glock
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Brainstorm
Brainstorm
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Carbon Nanotube
Carbon Nanotube'Carbon Nanotube' Allotropes of Carbon with a cylindrical Nanostructure.
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Groovy two shoes
Groovy two shoesA funky groovy jam..dedicated to my friend James Scalzo and his daughter Zoe ..with love CJ xx
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Two minutes of fame
Two minutes of famei had just 2 minutes exactly left for uploads in sound-cloud so i decided to write a two minute tune and post it.. it took me 2 hours to write it and then upload it. so its all about the twos
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Shifty cleaned up remixed
Shifty cleaned up remixed''SHIFT REMIX '' Remix of the new version of SHIFTY..the guitars Keys bass and the brass and the backing parts are now more audible.
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Slideshow
Slideshow
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I plead the fifth
I plead the fifthThis melody and the harmony are almost entirely organized in fifths and their inversion the fourth....
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Medulla oblongata
Medulla oblongata
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Skimmer
Skimmer
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The Ninth level
The Ninth levelIn 7/8 this piece uses suspended 11th chords while the melodic content is utilizing Phrygian flat 9th content..
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Cybertron
Cybertron
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24 chromatones
24 chromatonesBased on the pentatonic scale , this is in 5/8 with each bar using all the notes of each of the 12 pentatonics as the bass-lines... voiced in fifths and fourths.. the piano chords are also each a five note pentatonic chord stacked in mostly fourths.. the flute melodies are pure pentatonic scales ..I drafted this for a sci fi -film noire-motion comic I am writing for called 'THE CLIFF DWELLERS ' http://www.thecliffdwellers.com/
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Freaky wiki tiki
Freaky wiki tiki''Freaky wiki tiki'' A relentless Jazz tune based mainly on extended melodic use of fourths and chromaticism
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Sams Shred
Sams Shred''SAM'S SHRED'' I reworked this from a YouTube solo guitar jam i called ' i think you've mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck' by building on the main riff.. and laid some drums bass, synth and some smokin solos in and around it... its defo a SHRED..when it gets going
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Survival
Survival''SURVIVAL'' A scary little number inspired by the struggle for animal and human survival on this planet. This tune uses Phrygian harmony with Harmonic minor tonality towards the end.
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Lucid dreaming
Lucid dreaming'LUCID DREAMING'
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Base jumper
Base jumper''BASE JUMPER'' Flute Alto sax Electric Guitar, Synth pad, bass and drums
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Safe distance
Safe distance''SAFE DISTANCE'' Jazz composition feb 28th 2013 just 3 hours composition time from start to finish.using Flute Alto-sax, Piano bass drums
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Lift it up
Lift it up''LIFT IT UP '' A little Jazz number using Flute Alto sax Piano bass and drums..I think this is my favorite ensemble combo at the moment I like the sonorities one gets and the clarity of the melodic lines using flute and alto
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The Tao of Sorcery
The Tao of Sorcery' The Tao of Sorcery ' a pseudo- Japanese piece based on this altered A pentatonic scale A B C E F# (1 2 b3 5 6) (occasionally with G ) Instruments are: Dulcimer , bells, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Cello
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The magic of time itself
The magic of time itselfTHE MAGIC OF TIME ITSELF: In 11/8 time, instruments are flute, oboe clarinet, cello, hammer dulcimer, glockenspiel
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Goliath
GoliathPiano Alto sax tenor sax fret-less bass drums
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Tricky business
Tricky businessA groovy little jazz number with highly pentatonic/quartal melodies
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The Big Top
The Big TopIn 5/4 throughout this is kind of a tribute to Zappa although i would never pretend to be the master arranger he was.It has 3 trumpets alto and tenor saxes.. two keyboards drums and bass .... I mean to put some guitar in this one at a latter date
