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Paco Hernández

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About Me

Hi there!! :) I´ve decided to create an account here to promote my music, and, at the same time, to maybe get to know interesting and cool people. I hope you like the space. Fell free to leave comments. See ya around!A little biography:Paco Hernández was born in 1981 in Murcia, province of Spain. His first contact with an instrument (not with music, which he remembers sounding at home since he has use of reason) was when he was five years old. A friend of his father who worked in a music store introduced him into keyboards. A couple of years later, he took formal classes in an academy of music, where he studied musical theory, piano and singing. For some years he was singing in the choir associated to the Academy, experience which greatly developed his aural skills. Later on, for diverse reasons, he quit the Academy, but never left music aside. Around thirteen years old, he continued looking for musical scores of his interest and began his first steps in composing, at that time inspired in OST (Williams, Edelman, Elman, Vangelis, and stuff like that), new age and japanese videogame music (Final Fantasy, Castlevania, and the like). When he was fifteen, he was introduced in rock music by a friend via Europe. From there he came to know the German metal of bands like Helloween and Gamma Ray, and, after that, the general metal scene. His interest on playing guitar was greater as time passed by, but the main culprit of making him take up the guitar, counting already with seventeen years old was, as frequently occurs, Yngwie Malmsteen. However, he never had some sort of blind admiration or idolization for him. A legend was circulating in his friend´s circle of Yngwie being something like an unreachable God of guitar. His propose was to demonstrate the falseness of this legend and surpass the master. Today he doesn´t know if he has reached this original goal, nor he cares about that; he lost interest in this as he began to learn a lot of new things and to discover great guitarists as Petrucci, Vai, Satch, Tafolla, Moore, Lane, Cooley, Johnson, Howe, Holsdworth, Timmons, etc..He also opened his ears, only onto metal and classical before, to new styles like fusion, jazz, funk, flamenco, classical and acoustic guitar, etc. He recently made public a demo, entitled Heaven or Hell, with seven songs, five of them being original; it can downloaded for free from www.guitarristas.info. With this demo he won the competition hold by the prestigious magazine Guitarra Total, in which he was featured in August 2006. Right now, after one of his songs has been selected for the 2ºCD de Guitarristas.info, and having learned a lot on recording and sound, he is working on another demo, entitled Second Opinion, which is scheduled to appear sometime in 2007, this time bearing in mind the international scope.Here I leave also some of my vids:Improvising over a Kiko Loureiro BT:.. width="425" height="350" ..My song Heaven or Hell:.. width="425" height="350" ..Fusion Improvisations:.. width="425" height="350" ..Some Polyphonic Tapping playing Bach:.. width="425" height="350" ..There are more videos in Youtube. Check them out if you like these!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/6/2006
Band Website: guitarristas.info
Band Members: I do everything. I play guitar, keys, and program bass, arranges and drums.My gear:ESP Horizon FRII Ibanez Prestige 7 strings Keyboard Technichs KN 600 PODxt Laney VH100 Cubasis VST, lots of Soundfonts, DFH, MIDI, and a lot of stuff...
Influences: Too many...In the guitar realm: Paul Gilbert, Shawn Lane, Andy Timmons, Brett Garsed, Yngwie, John Petrucci, Rusty Cooley, Gary Moore, Kee Marcello, Allan Holdsworth, Andrew York, Pat Metheny, Guthrie Govan, Kiko Loureiro, Greg Howe, Eric Johnson, Vai, etc, etc, etc.....In the composition-peformance realm: John Williams, Ennio Morricone, F.Chopin, P.I. Tchaikovsky, C. Debussy, Nobuo Uematsu, Michiru Yamane, Pat Metheny, Jordan Rudess, Agustín Barrios, Vangelis, Valentina Lisitsa, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lale Larson, Mike Portnoy, Mike Terrana,...uhhh, the list could go on forever...Put it simply, the list of people that I don..t like would be a lot shorter ;)
Sounds Like: Check out the MP3!! xDYou can check it out also VIDEOS of mine in Youtube.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Some updates

Hello! It´s been a while since something new happened in my space. It is time to do something about it. Since Myspace lets to upload two more songs than before, I´ve uploaded a pair of songs: The firs...
Posted by Paco Hernández on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:43:00 PST

Paco playing a Rusty Cooley song on video

Hey there! I´ve just uploaded a new video of me covering the song "Under the influence" by Rusty Cooley. A friend of mine was kind enough to work on the Backing Track for me to play over it, whic...
Posted by Paco Hernández on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:14:00 PST

Paco plays Petrucci´s songs on video

Hey! What´s up? I always loved John Petrucci´s playing style. Lately, I´ve discovered some good backing track of some of his stuff, and I said to myself "Now is the time to learn some full song, ...
Posted by Paco Hernández on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:13:00 PST

My song "David´s Song" on video

Hey Folks! Here I leave you a link to a Youtube video in which you can see me playing my song David´s Song. For those who haven´t heard it yet, it is a Hard Rock/Melodic/AOR inspired song: http://www....
Posted by Paco Hernández on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:34:00 PST

Coma -The latest song of my new demo

Hello! I have just posted the latest song of my new demo for you to hear in my profile. It is called Coma, and I imagined, while composing it, the memories and toughts of an old man in a coma about t...
Posted by Paco Hernández on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:03:00 PST

My song "Beautiful Metal Queen" on video

Hello there! I have just uploaded in Youtube a new video of me performing my newest song, Beautiful Metal Queen. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKa2QjLdOTU I hope you like it! Best ...
Posted by Paco Hernández on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:32:00 PST

New song!! "Beautiful Metal Queen"

Hey folks! I have just uploaded a new song to my profile. In it, I´m serously into neoclassical and I must say that contains some of the most difficult playing and cool shred in my songs to date. But,...
Posted by Paco Hernández on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:37:00 PST

Video lesson with Paco at shredacademy.com

Hey folks! People at shredacademy.com have just uploaded a guitar lesson I prepared for them. It is a little glimpse on my particular approach to sweep picking.  To see the lesson...
Posted by Paco Hernández on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:42:00 PST

Faustian Nightmare Remix Feat. Mistheria!

Hello everyone! I have just uploaded into the Myspace player a remix of my song Faustian Nightmare. The cool thing about it is that italian keyboard virtuoso and Lion Music recording artist Misth...
Posted by Paco Hernández on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:32:00 PST

Interview with Paco at shredacademy.com

Hello! I have just been interviewed for the site http://shredacademy.com, a cool instrumental guitar site with reviews, interviews, lessons, etc. You can read the interview here Almost forgot. A less...
Posted by Paco Hernández on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:14:00 PST