In episode 106 of the guitar music theory podcast, I interview a fretboard theory student who

composes his own music in garage band. Oh, Greetings guitar engineers. I am your host Desi Cerna, author of among other things fretboard theory.

Today I interview a student named Stephen Brutcher who used what he learned in my fretboard theory

program to compose his own music.

Now recently I introduced new music of my own to the podcast, that's what you hear in the background right now.

When I asked my listeners to send me feedback, Steve messaged me and told me he liked the track

and shared some of his own music with me.

After a few email exchanges, I learned that Steve had learned about music composition from studying my music theory program, Prep Board Theory.

Now, you know that I often encourage my students to record themselves

and even try their hand at using multi-track recording software like garage

band for Mac and that's what Steve did. He learned the ins and outs of the program and

created his own layered instrumental guitar tracks. In fact, he completed a whole

albums worth of music that you can find online on all the major streaming platforms

such as Spotify and Apple Music.

I have included a link in the podcast show notes.

His artist name is Ghost Knives and the name of the project is Doomed Paradise.

In just a minute, you'll get to hear samples of Steve's music and hear from Steve himself about what that recording process was like.

But before we dive in, if you're not yet enrolled in a free video course on my website, go

to guitar music theory.com, answer the questions I ask you about your playing and I'll send you free custom video instruction calibrated to your current level.

I'll show you what you specifically should be working on right now in order to fill gaps in your playing and move forward to reach your music goals.

Go to guitar music theory.com to enroll in your free video course now, you can click on the link and the podcast show notes. All right, so this is Steve Brutcher, and Steve responded to one of my emails recently

where I had talked about recording a new track for the

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