Seth began playing guitar at the age of ten and performed in front of his first large crowd of K-4th graders later on that same year. This would be just the start of his relationship with guitar and the music that he could create. He spent the first several years taking lessons with Lander Ballard, a local songwriter and guitar teacher in his small town of Newton, Kansas. They would spend time each week working on various classic rock tunes. This included learning the chords, riffs, and eventually, the solos. By middle school, Seth wanted to be able to play the iconic and timeless solos he would always hear on the classic rock radio stations. This is where he began messing around with the pentatonic and blues scales. He took quickly to this rock style of playing. Before long, he was playing solos such as Stairway to Heaven and Hotel California. In High School, Seth joined the jazz band. This was his first introduction to jazz. He quickly realized that his rock background would not get him very far in a jazz setting, so he began listening to and learning more songs with complex chord progressions.