I have oddly diverse range of musical taste. I'm a huge fan of progressive and heavy metal. My favorite bands include Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation, Ayreon, Judas Priest, Savatage, the usual classics of prog. Aside from that nowadays I also listen to modern jazz, e.g. E.S.T., some classical ballads like Julie London, Barbra Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald etc., or some straight up classical music like Vivaldi, or Tchaikovsky. I also like to listen to some Turkish artists like Barış Manço, Birsen Tezer, Jehan Barbur, etc.

I like to play progressive rock/metal and hard rock with the guitar. I played some piano a while ago, I'd like to play some more, but don't have much time to put effort in practicing it. But still, my main instrument is still the electric guitar. Here's are some videos that I cover some of Dream Theater's songs. You can find several more videos like this on my channel.

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I very much like to compose some experimental pieces of music with electronic samples of some other instruments like violin, flute etc.

I used to compose much more than now, mostly because I had more time. Nowadays whenever I have time I compose for my wife, here are some of them:

Here are some smaller pieces, or just ideas that couldn't quite make it into any songs or major pieces yet .

Here's a video of a small piece that I composed for my mother's birthday in 2014, it reflects her experiences throughout that year. At the time I composed this, I didn't have an external audio interface that I can plug my guitar in, so there's no guitar pieces in this one.

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Here's the current list of gear that I mainly use for playing/composing music:

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