What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. Today on the show, we've got Greg Cock. Now, Greg is an incredible guitar player, but also an incredible teacher. Now, a lot of people think, oh, this person's great at guitar. They must be great at teaching and communicating. Tell you what, those are very different skills.

And Greg is one of those cats that has them both dialed in and so much so that he's

been hired to write several books and method books, even how to approach the guitar itself,

kind of understanding of the fretboard, understanding of the instrument,

and also understanding certain genres. Now, you have to have a certain depth of understanding

in your own playing to be able to communicate it to other people, and you have to understand

how people are going to learn in order to get the most results. Greg is wonderful at that. I've learned

a lot from his materials. I hope some of you have as well. Maybe you've even read some of his

stuff and not even known it. Anyways, incredible guitar player, great phrasing, great tone,

really great at playing trio, by the way. And I get into some of that in this episode.

Greg's a wonderful dude, a fellow Midwest cat like myself. Actually, I was one of the schools that I went to for music was McNally Smith College of Music. I went to the University of Minnesota, and I went to McNally Smith, which was in St. Paul, Minnesota. It's no longer around.

But right after I graduated, Greg started teaching there, and I was so bummed that I didn't get to take lessons from them there.

I had amazing teachers when I was there, but Greg started teaching there and was spending some time in the Twin Cities and fellow Midwest Cat, like I'm saying. So it is,

we're kindred spirits in many of our Midwestern ways, how we look at things, approach things.

And just a great dude, honestly, really wonderful guy. I hope you enjoy this interview. I

enjoy doing it. And tell you what, if you're also into education,

I got to say, I worked really hard on a guitar course. Over five and a half hours of guitar videos,

lessons, stuff is tabbed out. It's the Corey Wong guitar course. I can promise you,

you will be a better player if you go through all the stuff in this course. Okay? I mean that. It's not Corey Wong guitar course. I can promise you you will be a better player if you go through

all the stuff in this course. Okay. I mean that. It's not just rhythm guitar. It's not just lead guitar.

It's all of it. Okay. Practice tips. Very practical ways of outlining how I practice in a one-hour

practice session and just the practice mindset and how to get better things to pay attention to. So got to tell you, it's a wonderful course. I put a lot of time and effort into it. Also, if you're in Europe right now, I'm going on tour. My tour starts this week. It's going to be amazing. My whole 10-piece band is going to be with me.

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