MUKESH AMARAN
Hi Harshit, A little bit about yourself?
Hi There, well I am just a nerd who happened
to drop out of mechanical engineering and learn
the art of sound and music eventually being a
Sound Engineer but primarily a producer/ synth
and electric bassist. Oh and did I tell you I love
sneakers and Pringles Salt n Vinegar?
We all realize the stereotypes surrounding bass
players; tell us how Bass guitar became your
weapon of choice?
Well this is a question that would burn people
but none the less I am honest as always I
actually used to play keyboards until 2010 when
I joined my engineering college and wanted to
be in a band and the guitar players gave me this
instrument which felt like a guitar and sounded
heavy and boomy but had a character that
connected to my soul instantly and hence
I started playing bass and I went all around
India to ask other players to learn and always
got responses that either they are busy, or
I have small fingers ( Yes I got that ) , I don’t
have good sound etc. etc. , long story short then
I embarked on my own journey of discovering
this wonderful melodic and rhythmic
instrument which became such an integral
part of me that when I shifted from keyboards
to bass it all made sense in my head sonically
and I could write melodies and bass lines play
chords it was purely a WOW moment and indeed
that was my journey to have the bass guitar as a
weapon and later as I studied playing synth bass
has also become an equivalent weapon of choice ,
supposedly now I see cats getting influenced and
trying the synth bass sounds in live sets . I dig it!
Talk to us about your complete education in
music and how you have become an educator?
ARTIST OF THE MONTH
HARSHIT MISRA
Post dropping from engineering I moved to
Chennai for 2 and half years to study live sound
and production from School of audio engineering
that is when I stated playing with the band 83
miles per hour, one of the most craziest times of
my life I had with the boys where we just played
and I developed my bass playing with them, until
one day a friend of mine connected me with Abe
Thomas who told me about Musicians
Institute
in Los
Angeles Hollywood,
California and also told me about
the Full Ride Scholarship , for which I made a
video and got selected by Then Bass Department
Chair Stu Hamm and was one of the 6 contender
from around the world . They flew me in and
I got 70% scholarship, which in turn made me
decide to move to MI to study and I also one two,
more scholarships while studying at the school.
Graduated with a 3.9 GPA and was the first India
to get the Outstanding student award of year
22
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