Peter Fischer (musician)

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Peter Fischer (born August 19, 1966 in Hagen ) is a German rock or fusion guitarist, guitar teacher, author, producer, composer and lecturer.

Life

Peter Fischer grew up in the Hagen music scene in the early 1980s, which was shaped by the Neue Deutsche Welle , where he played studio sessions as a teenager and started giving guitar lessons.

In 1989 he moved to the United States to study at the Guitar Institute of Technology , the guitar department of the Musicians Institute , Los Angeles . There he was u. a. Taught by guitarists Paul Gilbert (Mr Big), Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson Band), Scott Henderson, Carl Verheyen (Supertramp), Don Mock, Joe Diorio and Carl Schroeder (piano, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan). During his studies he was portrayed as an outstanding talent in the November 1989 issue of Guitar Player magazine in the "Spotlight" column by talent scout Mike Varney . As a graduate of GIT, he moved to Vienna in 1990 , where he headed the rock guitar department of the American Institute of Music.

His work as a musician, lecturer and clinician took him to China , Russia , the USA and many European countries in the following years .

He is a lecturer and a. at the Federal Academy for Musical Youth Education Trossingen (guitar teacher training "The electric guitar in class"), Akademie Remscheid (including regular lecturer at the Bergische Guitar Festival), Landesmusikakademie NRW (Heek), Music College (Regensburg), International Music College (Freiburg), Munich Guitar Institute (MGI / Cologne), Guitar Institute of Technology (Los Angeles), FutureMusicSchool (Aschaffenburg), Institute for Music Education (Bozen / Italy), Mediterranean Music School (Tuscany / Italy), and Max Reger Music School (Hagen).

Since 2008 Peter Fischer has been the musical director and guitar lecturer of the Rock-Pop-Jazz-Akademie Mittelhessen gGmbH (RPJam), a vocational school for music, for which he developed its training and guitar program.

As a live and studio guitarist, Peter Fischer has worked with Mike Leon Grosch , DePhazz , Tom Astor , The Soultans , De Höhner , Seafoam Green, Andy Brings and others. He has made over 1,000 live performances worldwide. The two single releases "A Girl Like You" and "Wake Up Miss America" ​​from the debut album of his band Seafoam Green were on the radio in 2004. With this band he recorded a one-hour WDR Rockpalast concert in September 2007 , which was broadcast on October 29, 2007.

In the 2008/09 season he was a member of the Magical Mystery Band of the cult theater play Marigold at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Marigold is a piece with songs by the Beatles , directed by Burghart Klaußner and under the musical direction of Andreas Schnermann. As part of the collaboration with the German guitar manufacturer Framus , there was a collaboration with the TV station ProSieben in 2006 on the science program Galileo .

In addition, Peter Fischer is the author of modern electric guitar textbooks in Europe. In 1991, “Masters Of Rock Guitar” was the world's first guitar textbook with a CD. With other titles such as "Rock Guitar Secrets", "Rock Guitar Basics" or "Survival Guitar", Peter Fischer set instrumental pedagogical standards and influenced how the electric guitar instrument is taught in German-speaking Europe. In addition to the German versions of these books, some titles are also published in English, Chinese, Japanese and Italian.

Influences and style

In his "Spotlight" feature from 1989, Peter Fischer lists guitarists Ace Frehley , Edward Van Halen , Steve Vai , Steve Lynch and Allan Holdsworth as his main influences, which reflects his playing at the time. Mike Varney: "On his inventive, refreshing new demo, he employs zany Vai-ish whammy stranglings, multi-fingered two-handed innovations reminiscent of Jeff Watson, and long, fluid legato lines over interesting tonalities, a la Allan Holdsworth."

He demonstrates a greater stylistic range on the sound carriers of his book publications or in YouTube videos. There legato passages clearly influenced by Holdsworth alternate with bluesy-jazzy playing à la Robben Ford , Michael Landau or Scott Henderson . While numerous two-hand tapping passages can still be heard on older recordings, he has neglected this playing technique in recent years in favor of a country-influenced hybrid picking technique in which he strikes with pick and the fingers of his right hand.

Equipment

The guitar equipment used by Peter Fischer has changed constantly during the various phases of his career. He mostly plays Fender-style guitars, rarely Gibson-style guitars. His main instrument should be a 1960s Fender Stratocaster in Sunburst. You can also see him with a Fender Telecaster or his Framus “Peter Fischer Signature” guitar.

For amplifiers he uses models from Framus, Fender or Fuchs as well as effect devices from different manufacturers. He has been working closely with the Kemper Amps company from Recklinghausen since 2011 and uses the Kemper Profiling Amp regularly. Many of his own amplifiers were incorporated into the Kemper Amp as Profiles.

Endorsements

In the 1990s, Peter Fischer had endorsements with Peavey , Charvel and Music Man . In 2008 the Framus "Peter Fischer Signature" was presented at the Frankfurt Music Fair, which is based on a Framus Custom Shop guitar made for him. It is the first signature model for a German guitarist at this company and is advertised in the international music press and receives consistently good reviews. He is also supported by Roland, Lexicon and Native Instruments .

Publications

Books:

English editions:

  • 1995: Masters of Rock Guitar
  • 1995: Rock Guitar Secrets
  • 1995: Blues Guitar Rules

Japanese editions:

  • 2003: Masters Of Rock Guitar

Chinese editions:

  • 2004: Rock Guitar Secrets
  • 2005: Masters of Rock Guitar
  • 2005: Blues Guitar Rules

Italian editions:

  • 2009: Secreti della Chitarra Rock (Rock Guitar Secrets)
  • 2011: I Maestri della Chitarra Rock (Masters of Rock Guitar)
  • 2012: I Maestri della Chitarra Blues (Blues Guitar Rules)

DVDs:

(New edition of the educational video of the same name published in 1994)

Discography (excerpt)

As band leader & producer:

  • 1995: silver fish
  • 2004: Seafoam Green "Songs From A Beautiful Sad Summer"
  • 2006: Seafoam Green "Change (a girl like you)"
  • 2006: Seafoam Green "Wake Up Miss America"
  • 2006: Seafoam Green "Under My Skin" (EP)
  • 2006: Seafoam Green "Soul Survivor" (EP)

As a studio musician:

  • 1999: I-Land & Friends "Last Stand" (including gold award in Austria)
  • 2000: The Rounder Girls "La Dolce Vita" (ORF film music)
  • 2001: Maria Mathis "Canela" (No. 1 in the folk music charts)
  • 2002: De Höhner "2, 3, 4" (incl. Single release "Big girls have beautiful names" (position 19 in the single charts))
  • 2006: The TraceeLords "The Ali Of Rock"
  • 2007: DNX vs The Voice "2 Billion Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong"
  • 2008: Andy Brings "Wildes Mädchen" (single)
  • 2009: Andy Brings "Wilder Junge" (EP)
  • 2010: Andy Brings "Rock'n'Roll"

As a producer:

  • 2006: El Postre "The Foundation"
  • 2007: Lacanau "Les Vacances Sont Là"
  • 2008: El Postre "Ready for Vacation" (EP)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Peter Fischer at the Mediterranean Music School
  2. ↑ [2] Rockpalast broadcast from October 29, 2007
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Marigold at the Schauspielhaus Bochum @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspielhausbochum.de
  4. ↑ [3] Kemper Profiling Amplifier
  5. ↑ [4] The Peter Fischer Signature Model from Framus
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electric guitarist, author, producer, composer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen