Alex Hayes

Brooklyn, NY

About

Career Highlights / Bio

Producer and session bassist from Brooklyn NY. I have a studio in Park Slope where I produce, teach and record for different artists and companies around the world. I've toured internationally playing and singing, but my favorite place is in a pair of headphones, helping artists bring their ideas to life. As a lifelong lover of all music, I've had an eclectic career; studying bass with Victor Wooten as a teenager, singing in all-state choirs, attending a musical theatre conservatory, playing bass in genres spanning from 9-piece funk bands to world music to singer-songwriters; teaching the bass program for Yousician, a music learning app in Finland with 25 million users in 154 countries, scoring a musical, music directing bands and singers in NYC...I'm hard pressed to find musical endeavors that I don't enjoy.I've had many years of writing and arranging experience. I specialize in building entire tracks from small ideas. I'm a multi-instrumentalist with endorsements from Warwick, DR Strings and Dave Smith Instruments. Writing horn and string parts for singer-songwriters, making the right chord progressions for a song, creating melodies or exploring harmony, and coming up with creative solutions to writing blocks for artists are some of the things I have a lot of experience with. I also have the resources to put together a talented team of live musicians for a record, and the vocabulary to distill abstract ideas into concrete musical and engineering choices. I love working on the performance side of things, but I also spend a lot of time behind the console mixing and editing audio, and doing sound design.

Influences

Jeff Buckley, Jill Scott, Ben Harper, Flying Lotus, Paris Monster, DJ Shadow, Banks, Boards of Canada

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