He also seems to pronounce clearly the hard consonant sound "n" at the beginnings of some phrases when he sings. Some songs (most notably older ones) express a more esoteric side in terms of guitar riffs and vocals (" Execution Commentary," " Agitated," " Ashamed," " Yes Please," and " Break It to Me" more recently, among others). Popular devices he uses are singing with vibrato and in falsetto (" Supermassive Black Hole," " Knights of Cydonia," " Ruled by Secrecy," " Micro Cuts," and " Showbiz," among others), arpeggiations (" Take a Bow," " Starlight," " Butterflies & Hurricanes," " Ruled by Secrecy," " New Born," " Bliss," " Space Dementia" and " Blockades" among others), and large or octave jumps in melody lines (" Map of the Problematique," " Stockholm Syndrome," " Butterflies & Hurricanes," " Citizen Erased," " The Dark Side", and ", Pressure" among others). Matthew Bellamy is the driving force behind Muse’s lyrical and musical composition. When Matt was younger, he almost learned how to play the clarinet at the request of his parents, but he only did it till grade 3 and then he gave up, he also tried violin and piano lesson and didn't like it, the only reason why Matt can play the guitar and the piano it's because he self-taught how to play them, however, Matt had 'A Levels' in Music class that let him take classical guitar classes for free at school when he was 17-18 years old, since then, Classical Guitar it's the only subject on which he took lessons. That’s probably more realistic than thinking you’re contacting somebody who’s already dead. Something that you might not have known was already there. I now believe that you’re contacting something in your subconscious, which is quite different. I did get quite into that.” His beliefs changed after one correspondence predicted the first Gulf War a year before it started. “It was exciting to go to school and to tell 10-year-old kids all about it, as they found it all quite scary and I was quite impressed that I was doing something that was scary to other people but that wasn't to me. He then became interested in it after the divorce of his parents. His parents and older brother also used an Ouija Board to contact the dead, which Matt discovered when he was wandering downstairs late at night. At the age of 11, after seeing Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire, he decided he wanted to buy a guitar, which he asked from his grandmother. Matthew managed to play the song and his brother used to make him play it in front of his friends for show off. Matthew started playing piano at 6 when his brother influenced him to play a soundtrack from a TV series by holding him in front of the TV and then putting him in front of the piano. In December 1999, he claimed this was his most guilt-ridden memory. This occurred in the year previous to the one during which his parents split up. It was like a need to me." īellamy's first memory is of breaking an expensive family heirloom - a large mirror - after letting go of a bucket whilst spinning around with it, as a result of which his mother proclaimed that he'd cursed the family for seven years. But it's only when I moved in with my grandparents that I started playing music myself. Until the age of 14 music was part of my life since it was part of the family circle: my dad was a musician, he had a band, etc. I have a sister who's younger than me, she's actually my stepsister: my dad had her from another marriage, and also an older brother. Then, everything changed, parents got divorced, and I went to live with my grandmother, and there wasn't that much money. I think I almost got everything I wanted until the age of 13, yes. "It was ok at home, middle class, we had money.” Matthew says. At the age of 13 Matthew’s parents got divorced. Matthew’s dad, George Bellamy was in a band called The Tornadoes, who were the first band from the UK to get a US number 1 record. Matthew Bellamy was born in Cambridge on the 9th June 1978 and moved to Devon with his family at the age of 10.
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