Trace Bundy
Trace Bundy ( * 1977 in Austin, Minnesota) is an American acoustic guitarist, which occurs mainly in Boulder, Colorado and also lives there. Before he became a musician, he worked at the University of Boulder, where he studied from 2000 to 2003 mechanical engineering.
Biography
Trace Bundy moved with his parents to Buena Vista ( Colorado), where he came up with about eleven years for the first time with a guitar in touch. Since he had no money to take lessons to Bundy playing brought about the songs of Metallica and Def Leppard in itself. At age eleven, he wrote his first piece, which is the only title on which he sings.
Later, Bundy began to take an interest in music theory. He worked out his own theories that he, for example, Trace 's called Seventh chord theory. In college, he took a course in music theory and found his own earlier findings confirmed if named something else.
In high school, he met Jonah Werner, an acoustic folk songwriter, with whom he played Jackopierce and other folk songs. Later he teamed up with Tim Thornton from Newcomers Home, together with whom he worked on old Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens songs.
His style began to change when he found out that he could play without pick and with ten fingers more complex music. Since then, Trace Bundy continued to work from changing his style of music.
Bundy's Music
Bundy is in his particular field of music known as " The Acoustic Ninja " since it the technique of tapping - has perfected - a special variety of the guitar without a pick. His own style involves all ten fingers into the guitar game with. The resulting sound leaves the listener at least two guitars suspect because Bundy bass hook line and plays the part simultaneously. "The whole ninja thing comes from my early childhood ," says Bundy in an interview with Chris Hess of Fort Collins Rocky Mountain Collegian The Newspaper on 28 August 2003. "I disguised myself as a ninja, drew almost exclusively ninjas, and somehow spilled it over in my music. "
As examples he specifies artists such as Bela Fleck, Phil Keaggy, David Wilcox, Ani Difranco, Def Leppard or Stryper, with whose music he learned not only play, but of which he was also strongly influenced as an artist.
Bundy is an independent artist whose performances are organized for the most part by his fans in their hometowns. He is known to his fans for his courtesy and his sense of humor.
Publications
His debut album O Night Divine published in 1999. Therein he played those traditional carols that are especially dear to him over the years my heart. In 2000, he released his first album Solomon's Splendor, the 2004 Kombinations-CD/DVD Adapt followed. The DVD is a live recording of a performance in Boulder in the summer of 2004. Portions thereof are an adaptation of the Backstreet Boys hit I want it that way and his own interpretation of the classic Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel on the acoustic guitar.