The 5th single with the band Octavate is now available everywhere. The song is Money Changes Everything. Does that name ring a bell? It was made famous around 1984 by Cyndi Lauper, on the same album Girls Just Wanna Have…

In early 2019, I setup my drum room for recording and live streaming. It was all based on me watching DanDrumStone (another fellow SJC Custom Drums drummer) on Twitch, and learning a bit from his setup. I thought it would…

I've been exploring electronic drums, to make drumming quieter for those around me. I picked up the Roland TD-17 module, an RTOM BlackHole mesh head and Roland RT-30HR trigger, plus a Roland CY-15R ride cymbal. I love where this is…

Let me start by saying that electronic drums are not new to me. I have been incorporating e-drums into my playing and recording since 1994. It started while creating music with Suspicious Hooligans, which needed hip-hop drums and percussion…

Here's nothing unique. I have been at home since the first week of March. For about four months, I barely left the house. By July, I got back to some grocery shopping, getting take-out, and even attempted two socially distanced…

I joined up with Josh, Gilly and Matt in January, as the forth member of an alternative rock band with a handful of Josh created original songs. We decided on a band name, Octavate, while we are all home…

2019 was the birth of MusicBySV. Why did I not just use my full name? Well, some of you know my day job in cybersecurity (yes, this is real) has a bunch of followers in that space, so I created…

I'm currently in the studio, with Special Victim (which is my solo project, plus friends).  It's slow going, but I'm passionately, writing, recording, and releasing new music.  Early in 2019, one song, Pain of Reality, went live (it's now…