Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] I'm rediscovering my passion for the cut, for the guitar.
[00:00:05] I started playing as a teenager. Got my first guitar when I was.
[00:00:11] Oh man, can't remember how old I was, Probably like 13 or something.
[00:00:21] Got my first guitar, started learning on metal music.
[00:00:25] Metal music, rock music. I mean like Metallica, Pantera, Deftones.
[00:00:31] I think I learned like almost the whole Deftones album, the adrenaline album. But man, how did I start rediscovering my passion for one? Okay, my younger brother had his guitar at the local music store.
[00:00:54] He wanted me to go and pick it up for him because he couldn't go pick it up and they were, they fig. They were working on it or something. I picked it up, had it at the house. I opened up the case. Oh no, I didn't open up the case.
[00:01:08] They showed it to me, right? I looked at, I was like, dang, look at that guitar.
[00:01:12] Beautiful looking guitar.
[00:01:14] And then this was like a couple weeks ago, maybe a month or two ago, I forgot about it.
[00:01:20] And then a couple days ago at Open mic number 17 or 18. Open mic number 18.
[00:01:26] It's not just comedy open mic, it's music, open mic or karaoke, all kinds of open mic. There was a guitar there.
[00:01:34] I was like, man, and it was so tempting. I saw that guitar and I was like man, I want to play that guitar. So I signed up just to play the guitar.
[00:01:42] I was planning to do comedy but I really wanted to try out that guitar.
[00:01:46] So I tried out. I picked up the guitar, I played one chord and I played a two octave scale. Or is it three octave skill sheet? The two octave scale, C major, no pick, use my fingers on my right hand.
[00:02:03] And I was like man, I was super rusty.
[00:02:08] And then put it down, did my bits, whatever I came up with. And then I went home.
[00:02:16] And then yesterday, that was a couple days ago yesterday I went to Guitar center cuz I had to get a, I got a new mic right here.
[00:02:25] But I had to get a, an XLR cable, which is the cable that, that runs from the mic to the, the mixer and got the XLR cable.
[00:02:36] And then I was like, you know what, let me, let me go try try out one of the guitars. Cuz they got a, got walls of guitars at Guitar center, right? So I picked up. The first guitar I picked up was a Telecaster. Fender Telecaster.
[00:02:51] Thinking that I was going to like it. Cuz I had a, I had a Squire before, right? Squire Telecaster.
[00:02:57] I like the shape of it. But the neck was, it was like. It's fat. It's too fat. It's weird.
[00:03:05] So I was like, let me try a different one. And so I went to the good old Ibanez. I've had Ibanez guitar before. I had a seven string one at one point. Two seven string, different seven strings at one point.
[00:03:18] First guitar I had was a Lotus. It was like a knockoff of a Fender.
[00:03:24] But I was like, oh, shoot. I like. I. I remember why I like the Ibanez because the neck is real thin.
[00:03:30] So I started plucking, playing a few things. The first one I played was a six string. And I was like, nah. And then I did the seven. I tried a seven string. It was like a $1200 guitar.
[00:03:41] Seven string with fan frets.
[00:03:44] And then I went back to. I was like, let me try a different guitar, maybe a different brand to see if the neck. I think I picked up a Sher or a Jackson. Might have been a.
[00:03:59] I don't remember which one. But they had a similar neck to the Ibanez that I liked. Right.
[00:04:03] But it was a six string. And I was like, man, I really like that seven string. I really want to try out an eight string.
[00:04:12] So just rediscovering my passion for guitar, man, is. It's sentimental. Sentimental.
[00:04:21] So I wanted to share that real quick with you guys before I get into some other stuff that I'm talking about.
[00:04:30] Yeah. So let me see what else I got. So.
[00:04:34] So I think I'm probably gonna. So on that. On the guitar thing, I'm probably gonna get.
[00:04:38] I'm probably gonna get another guitar because I don't have a guitar in the house.
[00:04:42] A lot of people will probably be mad for saying that, because my. My degree was in music. Classical guitar was my instrument.
[00:04:51] And at first I. I thought I wanted a classical guitar when I came, like, right now at this point in time.
[00:05:00] But then I picked up that electric, and I was like, man, I really want that electric instead of the classical.
[00:05:06] Because I started on electric guitar.
[00:05:10] It wasn't cl. I didn't learn classical until I got to high school and then college. Eventually it was nothing but classical guitar.
[00:05:20] Yeah. So that's. That's that there.
[00:05:24] Oh, my gosh. So, yeah, and I've been in the music for. For years.
[00:05:31] I've been in a couple bands.
[00:05:34] First band I ever been in was called Nihilism.
[00:05:39] Nobody wants to look back at their first band. Right? Like, oh, my first band was this. It's probably some cheesy band that they. They started out with. Whatever. Hey, we all Got to start somewhere, right?
[00:05:49] Nihilism.
[00:05:50] Second band was called Wicked Red, which we had this. I had the same drummer in the band, but he was the singer in Wicked Red.
[00:06:01] And then stopped doing that.
[00:06:05] And then what else did I do?
[00:06:08] Got into going to church and then I started playing bass and guitar at a local church and then got into college, Started learning classical guitar.
[00:06:20] Played classical guitar for years. For years. Learned how to. I learned how to read music, which I think that was a integral part of my musical journey that I'm glad that I learned.
[00:06:34] They say a lot of musicians don't read music, which is fine. I think great musicians, a lot of great musicians don't know how to read music.
[00:06:43] What I say is like, it won't hurt you, but it would definitely up your game learning how to read music.
[00:06:52] Because it's patterns, right? On the guitars, you see, it's all patterns, right?
[00:06:57] You got a scale here, you got a chord here, whatever. It's all patterns.
[00:07:01] With music, it's patterns, but it's oral, like visual.
[00:07:09] Not only like, like it, like the guitar is aural when you're looking at it with your fingers. But music is oral, aural meaning your, your ear, right? You got ear sight.
[00:07:23] Ears, your sight and your, your touch, right?
[00:07:29] Touches the instrument. The ro is the ear, what, what it sounds like and then your site is what it looks like on a piece of paper.
[00:07:38] And it all goes back to like with that baroque, like those old school periods where.
[00:07:45] I think it was the baroque where they took, invented like the 12 tone piano or something like that.
[00:07:52] And that's why Bach started doing the, the partitas and the studies and the different keys that are in the, the western music world or whatever. Like there's a whole history behind why there's only so many tones in the, in the musical Alphabet.
[00:08:13] The musical, whatever the music sphere or whatever. But learn how to read music definitely is a game changer because you can see it, you can, you can hear and then you can play it like it's, it just ups your game totally.
[00:08:31] You know how to build a chord, you know how to build scales, you know where the chords come from on a scale. Like if you have a D major scale or a C major scale, you know which chords are the, which chords go where, which are the leading tones, which are the, which, what's the tonic, the sub dot, the subtonic, the dominant subdominant, you know all those, the different notes in the scale.
[00:08:57] How to piece a chord progression together from a particular scale.
[00:09:03] And that's called music Theory.
[00:09:05] So aside from sight, sound and touch, you have a theory behind the music. Why, which notes?
[00:09:13] Like the why and the how certain notes go together. That's where you get scales, you get modes.
[00:09:20] And then like jazz, like jazz, I think, is the ultimate music, because I think jazz is like the ultimate, the pinnacle of music because it. They're like Western music theory is just like out the window with jazz.
[00:09:46] There's still like chords, scales, and stuff like that, and those are based off of the western system.
[00:09:54] But it. Jazz goes into different keys. It doesn't stick to, like a certain key.
[00:10:01] Modulate to one key, like the. Like the dominant key for a little bit, and then go modulate back to the original key, which has. It's. It's 2, 5, 1. Like in a bunch of different keys, like totally unrelated keys, maybe, you know, a semitone away. Like, it's. It's so, like. Jazz is so complex. Like when I was trying to learn jazz, like on the guitar, I learned a little bit, but it's like an entire world that if you're not completely and fully immersed in it, like always playing it, then it's hard to grasp.
[00:10:39] And it's not. I don't.
[00:10:41] But a lot of people don't get it. You know what I mean? I think it's like for the music nerds, you know what I mean? And people that do genuinely enjoy jazz because there's a lot. There's a lot of key changes, key shifts and stuff like that, as opposed to like your modern radio pop music that is just.
[00:10:59] Most of it is in the same key, same key, like throughout the entire song. It might do a key change, but it's. It's the same throughout the entire song.
[00:11:10] And then you get into rhythm, like, rhythm.
[00:11:14] You have your standard, like, six, you know, waltz rhythm, like, like a six, eight, feel like a one, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, four, five, six.
[00:11:23] Throughout the song, you may have sometimes some key rhythm changes, but for the most part, it sticks to the same thing over and over. You got common time, which is 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, right? And then you got.
[00:11:37] Yeah, you got common time, and then you got the. The triple time.
[00:11:41] And those are the main two in pop music that everybody knows.
[00:11:47] But outside of that type of music, you got odd times, like tools. The main one that I'm thinking about, you got progressive rock, progressive metal, where they do crazy, all kinds of stuff. And that's. And that type of progressive stuff, it still seems like it kind of sticks to the modal Structure of the. Of Western music.
[00:12:12] Although I'm starting to think about, like.
[00:12:15] Like, Animals as Leaders, how some of this stuff cannot, like, strictly be, like, in one key, you know what I mean? That type of stuff and, like, in the world of music is huge. Like, I can't claim to know every single style, but every. But it's out there. You know what I mean? It's. It's out there and find something that you like and just learn how to play it. Like, that's. That's what I did. I. I liked metal music. I liked Pantera, Metallica, okay? That's all I knew, you know what I mean? The people around me would. Were listening to that. My stepmom would listen to that when she was younger. And that's how they got me into that. And I was like, well, this is around me. I'm gonna learn this, you know?
[00:12:59] And then you get into a bunch of different camps, like, oh, why are you learning that? Should be learning this, all this stuff. And then it just paralyzes you to where you don't want to learn nothing, you know what I mean? And then there's that social game again that I can talk about. You get into that social aspect where.
[00:13:19] Social policing. You know what I mean? Social policing is where people want to put you in a box because it may make them look bad. They want to control over you.
[00:13:28] You know what I mean? So try not to be social, social police. When you're learning music that you want to learn, if you're learning a song that you want to learn, somebody's making fun of you for learning it, forget. I mean, try not. Don't listen to them. What are they? Like it. And it's like those people that say that, it's like, what are you learning? Like, what are you doing? Are you actually working on your craft? You know, most cases like that. You know what I mean? But so just when it comes to.
[00:13:57] So I'm getting into a different topic here. I just talked about music for a minute there, but just like getting into.
[00:14:07] Being part of a. Part of society in every social. Every like. Like, industry circle, what have you, there's always that social policing.
[00:14:16] There's that negativity, there's a positivity.
[00:14:21] So we have to learn how to.
[00:14:25] How to live in those situations and how to be, you know, just ourselves, stuff like that.
[00:14:36] Yeah, I'm looking at my recording here to make sure it's still recording. It just timed out, but, yeah, I'm recording on these.
[00:14:43] I got the Rodecaster, got the mic the. Sure. SM7B.
[00:14:48] Got the camera, but. Yeah. So I'm gonna stop this video. I just talked about music for a minute, and I'm gonna make another video, maybe make another video, talk about social policing and stuff like that, which is mostly the. The stuff that I do talk about.
[00:15:04] And there's something in the background. I want to know if y' all hear that. I'll read. Listen back to that. Anyways, thanks a lot, you guys. Hope that helps. Bye.
