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Glen Lester
1+ albums
about
My name is Glen, and I am a Musician and aspiring Audio Professional. My musical aspirations started very early on with my interest in the electric guitar. I first got an electric guitar for my 8th Birthday, and I have been playing ever since. I taught myself guitar till I was 15, then I decided to have formal guitar lessons, which I did for 2 years. I decided when I was 20 to make music more than just a hobby, and took up enrollment with Access to Music to do an Advanced Diploma in Contemporary Music. This course gave me a further two years of guitar training, amongst other experience such as performing, composing, music notation skills, ear training skills, composing music for film, and learning about music technology. I also formed many bands with different musicians while I was there. Around this time my musical influences got deeper, and I had discovered Progressive Rock/Metal. Bands such as Dream Theater, The Flowerkings, Spock's Beard, Yes, Rush, Camel, ELP, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant & Frank Zappa. Those and so many more had such a profound impact on me as a musician. This music also helped me get into other Instruments other than the guitar, so I started to learn bass and keys and got myself a Yamaha bass guitar and a Nord Lead 2 synthesizer. It was also during this time that I started to form an Indie Rock band outside of Access to Music with a few friends, and that band became Eden. Eden came together from 4 very different individuals, that were all into diffe
