JOHN PETRUCCI

Full Name: John Peter Petrucci
Official website: JohnPetrucci.com
Group Band Previous: Majesty
Guitar: Ernie Ball MusicMan, Ibanez
Place of Birth: Long Island, New York, 12 July 1967
Influence: Steve Morse, Allan Holdsworth, Yngwie Malmsteen, Metallica, Eddie Van Halen
Zodiac: Cancer
Living Place: New York
Status: Married
Expertise: String skipping, Chromatic Scales, Arpegio, Matrix Modulation, and others.

John of the Long Island, precisely at the King park, where he, John Myung & Kevin moore school together. John began to study guitar when still aged 12 years (previously studied when he was 8 years old but surrendered when he saw her female sisters must study every night begadang main organs. He does not plan to be like That, he learned the guitar after school and he eventually became not interested in more). However, he started many games affected by such guitarist's guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads, iron maiden, steve ray Vaughn, and large group Semacam yes, rush, Dixie dregs and other start he is committed to achieve the level of the game as they.

As occurrence of the trash metal music that interested John, then John is also expanding its influence with the Listening to Metallica & Queensryche. John was a challenge in a more technical guitar because of him many adapt hammering speed & melodic style of guitar-like guitarist Steves (Steve Morse & Steve Vai), The Als (Allan Holdsworth & Al Dimeola) Mike Stern, Joe Satriani, Neal Schon & Eddie Van Halen.

Music education began with various music theory class he took during high school. He learned the self-taught, but he had received a few guitar lessons he took when he go to Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he Learning jazz composition and harmony. When the Berklee John Petrucci and John Myung who was also studying at the berklee met with Mike Portnoy, and they began to make a band called Majesty which later changed its name and become a Dream Theater. John has been recording a 7 albums with Dream Theater, and he was also involved with several side projects such as Liquid Tension Experiment with Tony Levin, Age of Impact, and even a Sega Saturn game called Necronomicon, and also the last project he was involved in the G3 with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Love him in writing lyrics combined with a unique style of composition of the progressive fusion of music from the plane Dream Theater.

John lives with his wife, Rena, and 3 children SamiJO, Reny and Kiara in New York. When he does not play the guitar he spends much time with his wife and his children play with the skating, cycling, sport and menontong film.

John are planning to make the first solo album. New songs that play when he was with the G3 will also have the solo album. Jaws of Life (previously IBS), Damage Control and Glasgow Kiss. He involves some musicians such as Dave LaRue on bass, and Dave DiCenso Tony Verderosa on drums.