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MP3 Mckay Tebbs - The Way

Instrumental guitar music that keeps a delicate balance between rock and jazz. The result of sending a Utah based guitarist to Berklee College of Music in Boston.

13 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Instrumental Rock, JAZZ: Jazz-Rock

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Mckay was first introduced to music at a very young age by his grandma. She would come over to his house every week to teach piano lessons to him and his siblings. In the six years she taught him, he never learned to read notes. He had a very good ear and could hear what was going on. She would show him a section of a song, and then teach him how to play it through memorization. This way of learning helped to develop his ear immensely at a young age. His grandma passed away when he was 12, and that same year he started to play the guitar. He had wanted to play the guitar for a very long time. His parents were very supportive and signed him up for music lessons at the local music store. He ended up taking lessons from that same teacher for the next seven years, until he graduated from high school.

In middle school, he had a best friend who played the drums. Every week they would get together and play the songs that they knew from people like Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and Stone Temple Pilots. They were a two-man band, and their biggest show was an eighth grade talent show where they played Stairway to Heaven and Purple Haze. In the ninth grade, they became friends with a kid who became the bass player in their band, and were finally ready to rock. That bass player eventually left, and in high school they ended up going through a lot of bass players. Besides playing in a rock band, Mckay also played in the school band. For three years he would go to school an hour early to play in the jazz band. During those years, Mckay became involved with many of the music projects that his band teacher always had going on, including playing in the school ska band, pep band, steel drum ensemble, and pit orchestra. It was during Mckay''s junior year of high school that he started to learn the bass. He played it in the jazz band, and his guitar teacher (who also played bass) taught him how to slap.

About Mckay Tebbs Southern Utah Guitar Teacher/Instructor Serving St. George, Washington County, Hurricane, Cedar CityHis favorite guitar player at the time was Steve Vai. He first saw Steve play at the G3 show in Las Vegas and was blown away. Through studying his life and reading about him on the Internet, Mckay discovered that when Steve was 17 years old, he had attended Berklee College of Music. That is how Mckay first heard of Berklee and when he first wanted to go there. Mckay found out about the Berklee summer programs and in the summer of 1999 attended the Berklee in L.A. program. It was there that he got a taste for what Berklee was like and met a teacher named Jon Finn, who he ended up studying with at Berklee. After he graduated from high school, Mckay and his friends went into his uncle’s studio and recorded all of their songs. They still didn''t have a committed bass player, so Mckay called up a bass player that he had met at the Berklee in L.A. program named Tomo. He was from Japan. After that summer of recording they all went their separate ways in life. For the next two years of his life, Mckay served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Although he wanted to play music, serving a mission was a sacrifice for which he was greatly blessed afterwards.

He came home from Brazil, and started attending a local college. His guitar teacher had a spot open up in his band for a bass player and a drummer, so he and his best friend from high school got to play in it. This band was called Eve’s Garden. They were a local pop/rock band that played around town a lot. During the year that he played with them, they recorded a C. D. and played a lot of local shows. His desire to go to Berklee was still strong, and it was during this time of his life that he found out about a scholarship that could help him cover expenses to go to Berklee. He applied for the scholarship and also for acceptance into the college and received both. He was accepted to attend the spring semester of 2004 and spent the rest of 2003 preparing to go.

He worked that summer at the Grand Canyon as a cowboy tour guide. His job was to take people on a tour of the Grand Canyon then bring them back to the lodge for lunch. After lunch he would sing and play country songs for them on his guitar. It was a lot of fun and he was able to save up enough money to cover his first semester’s worth of expenses at Berklee. He worked there from Monday through Friday, then would come back home to Southern Utah to play with his band and teach guitar lessons on the weekends. He started attending Berklee in January of 2004.

He returned home that summer and married a beautiful girl who supported him in the descisions he had made. They both moved out to Boston that fall and stayed there until Mckay graduated from Berklee in May 2006. In the summer of 2007, he recorded his first CD entitled "The Way". He is currently the guitar professor at Southern Utah University.

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