My name is Ron Lukiv. I've been playing professionally for over 20 years. My gigging situations have included various touring Top40 cover bands, a 4-piece country-rock band, a trio, duo, and single act. Currently, I am a freelance musician and play in a blues band called "Blueswak".
Lately, my free time is mainly used to help raise my 2 year old daughter.
Myla Shearer-Lukiv
I have a diploma in music from Capilano College, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I graduated in '88 with honors and won a scholarship for the second year. After I graduated, I taught the Beginning Adult Guitar night-course at the college. Teaching is something that I love doing, and have been doing since I was 16.
1. Here's a small clip of something off the top of my head.
Just me, a guitar and a sampler - no effects, no amp, no prep.
Bb shuffle riff .wav file (230K)
2. This is a short video clip (.avi) of the blues band "Blueswak" playing at a local pub with Colleen Doering as special guest. Here's a partial solo from "Shaky Ground" (2.93MB) by Delbert McClinton.
3. This mp3 is a version of "Sultans of swing" (6.46MB) originally done by Dire Straits. I played the guitar and sang, Scott Fooks did all the back tracks and keys for the song.
4. Here's a couple video clips of Blueswak taken at "Nawlins Bar" a couple years ago.
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"Little Wing Solo" (10.9MB) |
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"Route 66 Solo " (3.99MB) |
As much as I love music theory remember, music is an aural thing! Anything that you learn on paper about music should also be checked with the ear. Try to "hear" the theory that you learn and make it applicable to what you do.
I feel that theory itself is useless unless you can apply it. It's nice to know that the harmonic minor up a 4th against a Dominant7b9b13 chord works, but if you're not playing against those kind of chord changes, you'll end of forgetting all those patterns and scales that you've been working so hard at to memorize. Work on stuff that means something to you.
The information that is on this webpage (and in my book) is the foundation of all music theory. It's stuff that you need to know to build and learn scales, chords, harmonies, solos, jamming, etc.
I'm hoping that some of this information will open up some new doors to some of you out there. Theory isn't that hard to learn if you attack it in small doses.
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