Adam J Bear

Adam was lucky enough to be born in a highly artistic musically skilled family.  So slowly Adam fell in love with Guitar by 12 or 13 playing at school, with friends and at summer camp a lot.  Adam played in bands playing as a lead singer and bassist or guitarist and singer depending on my peers and their style.  This happened a lot from around age 16/17 to about 24 and gained a lot of song writing and live performing experience.  Adam also played solos shows at open mic events in the later years performing acoustic comedy songs covers and originals as well as collaboration performances with other well experienced musicians. In 2011 Adam composed my first home studio album produced entirely from GarageBand.  It was still great experimenting with keyboards added as well.  Adam composed a collaboration project with my brother and an opera singer in 2014, the band was called Artistica.  Both times my brother performed drum tracks only and created the album cover. Adam composed, wrote the lyrics, performed guitar and bass tracks for that album.  In the last few years I have been playing and recording with my brother on bass guitar, my dad on drums and backup vocals and myself on lead/rhythm guitar and lead vocals. The band is called Son dance, we have at least 25 covers give or take and a few originals, and had a few awesome gigs, one of which was opening for a Kiss tribute band.  

Adam have had different clients teaching them guitar spread out.  The first one started when I was 18.  I was teaching basic chords, simple melodies and naming open and fretted notes. In 2009, 2016, 2019, 2021 Adam taught guitar lessons to various clients and sometimes kids learning chords, strumming patterns and reading tablature.

Since 2017 Adam has been recording albums at home and releasing it on sound cloud and for sale on my website.  It’s been quite a process of writing, composing and producing.  Adam have had success busking at giant outdoor festivals like Super art crawl and Niagara Falls.  Adam continues to perform at open mics and network my solo career.  Currently in 2020 Adam is back to being a solo and or a duo act gigging in bars and friend's backyard occasionally. My focus now is home composing recordings, producing and performing originals and covers.  Adam have been creating YouTube, Rumble, Instagram, Facebook and Sound cloud content.  My first big accomplishment to be proud of is looking back was having an article written about myself and my musical journey in the 2012 Greater Hamilton Musician magazine.  With my current experience level and wide range of originals and cover songs under my belt and will be ready for more gigs in a variety of different set ups indoors and out.  Adam had some amazing gigs busking in Niagara lately and was featured in a scroll like fun newsletter for June 2021 produced from another anonymous busker for me on the spot.  In the several full days throughout that summer my average income ranged $170 to $230 for a 2 to 6 hours a day.

I’m always brainstorming original riffs for songs and I traditionally write the lyrics last for my songs and instruments first.  Adam has recently released over the last couple of months a full length album titled Higher Dimensions.  Released on Spotify, ITunes, YouTube music and Band camp as well. This album best reflects the range of inspirations within a few different sub-genres within Rock music that I love so much.  Now another album is out called Roctopus which reflects warm ambient Rock vibes in these new songs.

The newest chapter of my life is at Metalworks Institute, longing for more professional experience and career opportunities by performing, gigging, producing, recording and composing at one of the most reputable colleges in North America.