I'm Tyler Ray Lobdell, but you know me better as simply Tyler Ray. I started playing music with the influence of my family when I was 12 years old, and had been musical my whole life prior. Over the years I've bounced from instrument to instrument of the typical Americana variety, but my mainstay has always been electric guitar and now pedal steel. When I moved to Cleveland, OH in 2016, that was the launch pad I needed to let my skills and discipline with playing music shine.

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I enjoy rock and roll and electric guitar. I love the volume, the possibilities of effects and the way it makes me physically move. However, there's much, much more to playing guitar and playing music than turning up and tearing up. I take my time to learn about the people I work with in terms of their music and who they are as a person. I like to prepare for gigs with homework, recordings and charts, and if I feel it necessary, a schedule of rehearsals. What sets me apart is a forward thinking approach. I'm solution oriented and ready to freshen up your presentation of performance, both musically and physically, to provide an experience that's fully enjoyable to you, and your audience. At the end of the show, we won't even feel like we had to work that much at all.

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Thanks for your time!