It started out as a way to vent during tantrums as a little kid, but over the past 14 years drumming has become the primary focus in my life. I have taken several years of private lessons from various instructors including UCSD doctoral alumnus Morris Palter and the highly respected Duncan Moore. Additionally, I spent a year studying percussion at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. For over a decade my brother Jon and I have been jamming and writing songs together, and after years of searching we finally found compatible musicians in Samson Pedroza and Chenzo Vidalez who played in Canobliss. We joined the band in January '04, parted ways with the old singer in February '05, and after 16 months of exhaustive auditioning we found Johan Maldonado in June '06. He may be small but the man has a voice!! While I completed my aerospace engineering degree from UCSD in '07 the band is currently my full-time job. I enjoy engineering but drumming is my passion and I plan on doing whatever it takes to make it my career. We worked our asses off to release "Liberation of Dissonance" in July '07, and the new EP "Psychothermia" in July '08. There's plenty more where that came from, so keep an eye and an ear out for me and Canobliss!
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Actual studio take of me recording Notorious (w/ cd audio):
Actual studio take of me recording Adios:
Actual studio take of me recording Slingshot:
And this is just sick...
