Root Ax
United States, Ohio, Dayton
Root Ax
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Daniel Burks
Started writing and recording original songs on his desktop PC in his bedroom at age 15, and has been, off and on ever since. He has been in a few full bands before, has had classical voice training, and has been in multiple advanced college and semi-professional choirs over the years. He took guitar lessons for many years, took piano lessons for a short time, and taught himself bass guitar. In addition, he played cello in a youth orchestra in high-school for 2 years. Being the only current member of the band RootAx he founded, he hopes to at some point recruit a complete band before really testing the music industry waters, as he doesn't really have a desire to go big, solo, if that were by chance to happen.
Daniel Burks
Bassist Composer Guitarist Keyboardist VocalistStarted writing and recording original songs on his desktop PC in his bedroom at age 15, and has been, off and on ever since. He has been in a few full bands before, has had classical voice training, ...
First of all, I know I haven't updated you all in a long time, and I apologize for that. But new music is near! I have admittedly been setting music on hold for a while, for both good and bad reasons, but I'm back at it! I just finished the first draft (hopefully just of two) for the lyrics of the entire song, which this time includes a verse 2 and a bridge. The music I wrote for it has been mostly set for a while (I know, it's weird to write the music first), and might only need a few little adjustments to fit the newly written lyrics. The lyrics were harder to write this time because this is a song that I wanted to be mirroring the darkness and hopelessness of wanting to end it all, but still convey that there is hope for finding the light, and freedom from pain's control; as there will always be pain in our lives, but you can learn to not let it define you. That's something I'm still learning myself. I hopefully will have the song ready to upload here within the next couple weeks, so stay tuned :) A big thank you to all my fans for encouraging me to keep doing this! Until next time.
Read moreSo I've been asked by different people how they could buy and support my music, but here's the issue: I am running the free version of N1M, and I can't utilize the option to sell music on here. As well as I'm limited to 3 uploaded songs, and have a limit to number of subscribers at 500. To change that, there is a $100 paywall on here blocking me from better options for promoting my music, and unfortunately I have too many real life expenses right now to be able to afford shoveling the $100 to N1M. Now, if there is enough interest in supporting my music monetarily, what I could do is create a 'go fund me' page for anyone who wants to contribute toward that hundred dollar Premium upgrade. If you all are interested in supporting me that way it'd help me out a lot. Please let me know if you are interested in me setting up a go fund me page for that purpose. I look forward to hearing from you, and thanks again for all your support.
Daniel of Root Ax
Sorry I haven't updated you all in a while... I just got a new job that, yes, I want to eventually quit to do music full time. But for now I needed another source of income while I contemplate when and how I might try to make it big. I still would like to put a full band myself before I really test the waters. In the meantime I decided to leave "Fantasy" as is for now, and instead work on a totally new and kinda darker song on the subject of suicide, which is something I always wanted to write about, to encourage people contemplating it to instead have hope for their life here. As for that acoustic song I was planning, I got kinda frustrated writing the song, but I WILL go back to it at some point...I'll try to update you guys more often, and hopefully to give you all some new tunes to listen to soon.
Read moreUpdate:
I recently thought that while I'm working on my big project ("Fantasy" in it's entirety), I could do an acoustic song in the meantime and hopefully put it up here within the next few weeks! So keep an eye out for it ;)
Yours truly,
Root Ax
PS: The amount of production I'm putting into the complete version of "Fantasy" is so extensive and complex, it may be a month or two before it's ready...But, once I'm satisfied with it, it will likely be my first full single for a future EP and could end up on iTunes!
I've been pretty busy lately, and probably will be till the end of this month, but starting in January I should have more time to work on writing and recording. I have the tools now to hopefully make full, high quality songs that can eventually form an EP! I'm considering also selling each song as a single as well on iTunes and other places, especially since many of you have expressed a desire to be able to buy my music to support my efforts, which I find very flattering and unimaginably encouraging to me! Thanks all of you from the bottom of my heart for believing in me and my music!
(Thought I'd include a couple pics of my new virtual guitar effects suite which I mentioned in a previous update)
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