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NEY MELLO

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CONTACT NEY TODAY TO RECORD A SOLO
IN YOUR SONG AS FEATURED GUEST SOLOIST

Send Ney your tracks and we record it in our 2 specially treated tracking rooms
featuring all wood floors and custom built vintage design poly-difusers.
We also have the amazing top of the line Neumann M149 tube mic
and AEA R84 ribbon mic and MA 2.2 BUZZ AUDIO mic pre
and 1979 vintage UREI LA-4 compressors!
Recording costs fit the needs of independent artists with real life working budgets
Send Ney a message to discuss some cool ideas for your project!
RECENTLY GUEST SOLOIST ON:
NO 1 HIT INDEPENDENT CHART "NO MORE DENYING" by SHERRECE
NO 4 HIT "HEAVEN SHINES" by SHERREECE
As a multi award-winning recording artist and Jazz /rock/contemporary classical performer on both electric and nylon string guitars. NEY MELLO performs nationally (Kennedy Center, NAMM show, colleges, Jazz venues) and internationally in Europe and South America Ney has released six records to date and is currently working on a electronic jazz project.
Ney is also in the final stages of production of a revolutionary 2-DVD set for pickstyle right hand mastery training.
Ney also had the unique and extraordinary opportunity to have guitar legend Al Di Meola as a mentor when he moved to the US from his native Brazil.
Ney is know for his unusual versatility in the studio spanning, jazz, flamenco, fusion, brazilian music, rock, classical, North Indian classical music....Inspite being a melodist and lyrical player, Ney is known to audiences worldwide for his phenomenal command of the instrument both with pick and fingers. He performed under the baton of CLAUDIO SANTORO at 21 and at the same time Ney was honored with a special solo electric guitar part written for him as part of an orchestral work by legendary composer LINDENBERGUE CARDOSO
Ney Mello has performed and recorded with artists including:
HERBERT VIANNA(PARALAMAS)
JER OLSEN (BEYONCE)
MICHAEL FATH
BROTO ROY (STING, OASIS, JOE ZAWIUL)
GALI RICARDO SANCHEZ
FAHIR ATAKOGLU
SCOTT AMBUSH (SPYRO GYRA)
DAVID DYSON (DAVID SANBORN, FAREED HAQUE)
GARY GRAINGER (JOHN SCOFIELD)
HERBERT VIANNA(PARALAMAS)
SEAN RICKMAN (MAXWELL, SHAWN LANE)
VICTOR WILLIAMS (DENNIS CHAMBERS, JOHN McLAUGHLIN,)
JOHN ALAGIA (DAVE MATTHEWS BAND)
DOUG DERRYBERRY
CHRIS VADALA
RICHARD ELLIOT
PAUL BOLLENBAK (JOEY DE FRANCESCO)
ADRIAN LEGG
SHERREECE
BYRON SANTO
TIM KEENAN
CLAUDIO SANTORO
LINDENBERGUE CARDOSO
RECO DO BANDOLIM (Brazilian choro mandolin legend).
To listen to clips and to buy the award-winning CD "MEDITATIONS" click here: Ney Mello listen & buy CD
Ney, having been raised all over the world, speaks Portuguese, French,English, spanish and Italian. He studied classical guitar in Brazil under the legendary Eustaquio Grilo...He is entirely self-taught on electric guitar and bass.
Ney has composed and performed music for MTV public broadcast spots and has performed on BET NETWORK’s Jazz Central show with tabla master Broto Roy.
He was also the sole artist invited to represent Brazil in the first Ibero-American Chamber Music Festival, playing Villalobos, Gismonti, and ’’Jogos De Mar", a piece he wrote for the event.
Ney’s jazz heritage shows in his family as well. He is related to the greatest brazilian jazz artist, the late saxophone giant and legend VICTOR ASSIS BRASIL and guitarits/educator GUSTAVO ASSIS BRASIL .
Ney, as did his cousin Victor, also has an unusually effective gift for teaching. His former students include Grammy Award winner Herbert Vianna.
Ney receives numerous international guitar students at many levels of ability and several prominent recording rock artists and jazz/jazz-fusion artists for private guitar/bass technique and improvisational development consultations.
Their goal is the same as NEY’s...to always go beyond and BE the music..free of technical impediments and limitations.
For additional bio details Please visit : Ney Mello website- full bio
Thanks for stopping by!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/3/2005
Band Website: neymello.com
Band Members:Endorser:
SANTUCCI TREBLEBASS

Endorser: OVATION GUITARS NAMM show solo performances in lineup with ADRIAN LEGG.

Endorser: BUZZ AUDIO Used on NO 1 hit song "no more denying" by SHERREECE .

Endorser: JIM DUNLOP PICKS Used on NO 1 hit song "no more denying" by SHERREECE .

Endorser: "MELLO WAH" Ney Mello signature pedal by ROBERT KEELEY .

Collaborative projects, concerts and recordings to date with:

Herbert Vianna (PARALAMAS)
JER (BEYONCE, SIMPLY RED, DOLCE, JAYJAY JOHANSON
FAHIR ATAKOGLU
SCOTT AMBUSH (SPYRO GYRA)
GALI SANCHEZ(SANTANA,STEVIE WONDER)
MICHAEL FATH
BROTO ROY (STING, OASIS, JOE ZAWIUL)
DAVID DYSON (DAVID SANBORN, FAREED HAQUE, CHUCK BROWN, RICK BRAUN)
GARY GRAINGER (JOHN SCOFIELD)
HERBERT VIANNA(PARALAMAS)
SEAN RICKMAN (MAXWELL,SHAWN LANE)
VICTOR WILLIAMS (JOHN MCLAUGHLIN,DENNIS CHAMBERS)
JOHN ALAGIA (DAVE MATTHEWS BAND)
DOUG DERRYBERRY
CHRIS VADALA
RICHARD ELLIOT
PAUL BOLLENBAK (JOEY DE FRANCESCO)
ADRIAN LEGG
SHERREECE
BYRON SANTO
CLAUDIO SANTORO
LINDENBERGUE CARDOSO
RECO DO BANDOLIM (Brazilian choro mandolin legend).
Sounds Like: Click PRIVATE LESSONS for guitar/bass easy private lessons information and personal guitar and bass technique consultations.

Hear clips and buy the award-winning acoustic CD "Meditations" here: Buy CDs store.
Record Label: Great Lakshmi
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NO SCHISMS BETWEEN MUSIC AND TECHNIQUE

Copyright: Ney Mello 2008All rights reserved. Once a reporter asked Brazilian legend HERMETO PASCOAL " Are you rich"? He answered " I am rich in music".Until that obvious reality is realized one is ...
Posted by NEY MELLO on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:56:00 PST

TIPS IN ADVANCED EAR DEVELOPMENT FOR ARTISTS

This article comes is response to a question from a student on how to improve on ear training methods.Copyright: Ney Mello 2007All rights reserved. My experience shows that Sound recognition is a qu...
Posted by NEY MELLO on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:26:00 PST

"21ST" Astronaut licks

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Posted by NEY MELLO on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:11:00 PST

PAT MARTINO and OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Commonalities In Cultural Outlook

Copyright: Ney Mello 2007While cultural predilections in America lead academicians and theorists to frequently discard or ignore research material by non teutonic and non-anglo-saxonic sources, the gr...
Posted by NEY MELLO on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:38:00 PST

MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERCEPTION AND THE TRANSMISSION OF MUSICAL META-KNOWLEDGE

THE NATURE OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERCEPTION AND THE TRANSMISSION OF META-KNOWLEDGE PERTAINING TO MUSIC AND IT'S TECHNIQUE INTO 3 DIMENSIONS.This article comes in response to a question posed by a guita...
Posted by NEY MELLO on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:30:00 PST

THE CREATON OF MUSIC

-Copyright: Ney Mello 2007-This article is under copyright protection . This article or any part of it's contents cannot be reproduced without written permission from the author.HOW SHOULD I PLAY? TEL...
Posted by NEY MELLO on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:09:00 PST

A CASE OF TRANSCENDENT MUSICAL POSESSION IN TUNISIA

ANOUAR BRAHEMBarzakhECMA CASE OF TRANSCENDENT MUSICAL POSESSION IN TUNISIAIn such a case exorcism is not required; in fact it should be avoided at all costs as the listener longs for a glimpse into th...
Posted by NEY MELLO on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:54:00 PST

HYPER-SPEED's DOORWAY INTO THE POWER OF THE HURRICANE

GARY MOORE"Back on the streets again"..">HYPER-SPEED's DOORWAY INTO THE POWER OF THE HURRICANEThis exceptionally powerful electric record blew me away because GARY MOORE was giving all in it. Today in...
Posted by NEY MELLO on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:46:00 PST

BEYOND SHRED INTO HYPER-SPEED AND THE REALM OF THE ECSTATIC

BEYOND SHRED INTO HYPER-SPEED AND THE REALM OF THE ECSTATIC ''LOVE DEVOTION AND SURRENDER" Released in 1973 by Columbia Records, features Carlos Santana and John Mclaughlin in a collaboration that rem...
Posted by NEY MELLO on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:34:00 PST

JOBIM-DEFINES MUSIC IN HIS OWN WORDS

The original text is from the newspaper OGLOBO Jan/ 25/1987.See my translation below.To my knowledge there are no English translations of this amazing interview which goes on to cover many other facet...
Posted by NEY MELLO on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:23:00 PST