The Never Ending Love Story: July 2006

You and Me...
No Just
Me and It

HEY ... LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF!!

MY NAME IS RIZKI ADHI PRATAMA,I'M A GUITARIST/MUSIC ARRANGER/VOCALIST. I BEGAN TO PLAYING GUITAR WHEN I WAS 11 MY UNCLE LET KNOW THIS INSTRUMENT, AT THE FIRST TIME I'M NOT REALLY INTERESTED WITH THIS INSTRUMENT. I MORE LIKE DRUM THAN GUITAR.I STARTED TO PLAY DRUM BY 12 AND MY FRIEND TAUGHT ME, BUT WHEN I WAS 13 I FRUSTATED BY MYSELF BECAUSE THERE'S NO PROGRESS IN PLAYING DRUM I STARTED TO SERIOUSLY PLAY GUITAR, I TAUGHT MYSELF, I TAKE CLASSIC GUITAR COURSE BY THE LESSON GIVEN BY EDDY MY FIRST TEACHER IN CITRA NUANSA MUSIC WHERE I TAKE THE COURSE, BUT IT ONLY FOR 8 MONTHS, AFTER THAT I DECIDED TO LEAVE THE LESSON AND PLAY BY MYSELF.
AT THE SAME TIME I JOINED 2 BAND AT THE SAME TIME FIRST CALLED "INSAN 21" IS WHERE I PERFORM AS A RYTHM GUITART ANDS SECOND CALLED "BERAS" I PERFORM AS GUITARIST AND VOCALIST, ITS ONLY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AND I LEAVE BOTH OF THE BAND THEN FORM BAND CALLED ....I FORGOT THE NAME, WE PLAY SHEILA ON7 AND PADI AT THE TIME AND AGAIN ONLY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS I LEFT FOR STUDYING BECAUSE OF THE EXAM.AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL I MET ASPAR BUDI, TYO, ETC. TO FORM BAND NAMED "CARRY OUT" IT USED TO BE CALLED LEADER AT THE FIRST TIME, I ENJOY PLAY WITH THEM CAUSE FIRSTLY THEY PLAY SONGS THAT SUIT TO MY SKILL LIKE CREED, GUN'S N ROSES ETC, AND WE ALSO PLAY HIP METAL MUSIC LIKE KORN, LIMP BIZKIT, I ENJOY IT BECAUSE I CAN EXPLORE MY ABILITY IN EFFECT.BUT AFTER SEVERAL TIMES WE PLAY TOGETHER I BECOME FRUSTATED BY THIS BAND BECAUSE THEY STARTED TO PLAY PUNK AND EMOTIONAL HARDCORE (EMO-) MOREOVER WHEN OKY CAME AS SECOND GUITARIST,IT HITS MY HEART VERY MUCH, I CAN'T IMPROVE MY SKILLS BECAUSE THE SONGS YHAT WE PLAYED IS NO MORE NEEDEED GOOD TEHNICS OF GUITAR, I ONLY PLAYING PROGRESIF CHORD INSTEAD OF PLAYING MELODY, I BECAME MORE FRUSTATED WHEN THEY FORBID ME TO IMPROVE THE SONGS WITH MELODY,SO I LEFT AGAIN BAND BUT I HAVE MANY EXPERIENCE IN THIS BAND AND WE HAVE PERFORM IN MANY SHOWS AT THE TIME SUCH AS; 17TH OF AUGUST CELEBRATION,CAFE ETC.BUT BECAUSE I DISAPOINTED WITH MY GUITAR PALYING IN THIS BAND INSTEAD OF PRATICE PLAYING GTUITAR I PLAY DRUM,PIANO AND BASS.
RIGHT AFTER I GRADUATED FROM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND GO TO COLLEGE I JOINED SMC(STANMUSIC COMMUNITY)THERE I MET SEVERAL GUITARIST WHO CHANGE MY MIND ON PLAYING GUITAR SUCH AS FIKRIE(NOW WE JOIN SAME BAND CALLED EVE), QIVI ETC.BUT THE MOST FENOMENAL GUITARIST FOR ME IS TAUFIK NOW HE IS MY TEACHER. AND I STARTED TO PLAY MELODICAL SOLO GUITAR, I LISTENED TO STEVE VAI, JOE SATRIANI VERY MUCH BUT I ALSO LISTEN TO YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, JASON BECKER, RICHIE KOTZEN, MARTY FRIEDMAN, CHRIS IMPELITTERRI, ERIC JOHNSON ETC. I ALSO CHANGE MY TASTE OF MUSIC.NOW IM LISTENED TO DREAM TEATHRE, VAN HALEN, MR.BIG, GUN'S N ROSES, CREED ETC. OK THATS ALL ABOUT MYLIFE UNTIL NOW.

--Rizki Rockz--