Pash Zaburuev

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Pash Zaburuev was born 3 July, 1984 in Ufa city. Pash has lived in Moscow since 1991. He joined the world of music when he was 12 years old. Pash was started by learning different keyboards, synths and sequencers. However, he became passionate for music when he was 16. Pash started to play the guitar and a year after he started to take private lessons, but because of different circumstances he went ended up studying music on his own. Without music theory lessons, Pash learned by copying guitar phrases, riffs and melodies by ear. One of his early influences was Marty Friedman. Pash was taken by Marty's atypically melodic lines, oriental feeling and unusual phrasing. This laid the foundation for Pash's own style of playing, moving away from the stereo typical pentatonic scales. Whilst learning to play Pash learned to use recording equipment, such as samplers, sound modules and musical software. With this experience he started to record his own playing, with the first recording being a cover of Jimmy Hendrix's "Little Wing". He entered the track for a local guitar contest, winning first place! His next songs "Ignition" and Ignition II" was self penned and made reference to his musical influences of that time: Marty Friedman and John Petrucci. Pash entered and won first prize with his next recording another Jimmy Hendrix cover "Manic Depression" and his prize was an American Fender Stratocaster. As his skills developed he incorporated these ideas into his recordings, adding a

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