User:MishkaHess

Mishka Hess is a self-professed student of music both theory and appreciation. Always the music lover, Mishka was singing George Jones songs perfectly before he was even talking in complete sentences [referenced from family anecdotes]. His passion for composing and studying guitar came after watching the 1986 film Crossroads, particularly the pivotal climax where Eugene, played by Ralph Macchio, battled the Devil's own prodigy Jack Butler, played by Steve Vai. This experience turned appreciation into obsession, particularly with the guitar. Formal training with instruments is virtually non-existent and consisted of 2 teachers totaling three months of formal study between them, learning basic chord and scale structures. Prior to picking up his first guitar, Mishka studied in a primary school setting, singing soprano for the Athens Boy Choir in his hometown of Athens, AL, where he learned the basics of music theory and reading musical notation. Between the guitar training and the theory learned in choir, Mishka was able to easily grasp textbook content on his own. Since then, study has come mainly from instructional books and videos, focusing on: Pitch Axis Theory; Modal theory; Rock; Metal;   among others. Related Reading