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Wong Notes

Eric Krasno: Funk Chameleon

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Soulive, Lettuce, Tedeschi Trucks, and most recently, Stanton Moore and Branford Marsalis—that's a short list of some of the acts Eric Krasno plays and has played with throughout his career. From one funk guitarist to another, Cory sits down with Eric to talk what it means to play the right amount of notes when jamming, what it takes for Eric to absorb and learn so many different genres, and the impact the jam band community has on its musicians. Thanks for listening to this season of Wong Notes, and be sure to catch the next!

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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong

Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger

Presented by DistroKid

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening?

0:03.4

Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast.

0:04.8

I'm your host, Corey Wong.

0:06.7

Bittersweet day today.

0:07.7

This is the last show, the last episode of the season.

0:11.7

What a great season it's been.

0:13.4

If you haven't checked out previous episodes from this season, go do it.

0:16.8

But today, we got Eric Krasno.

0:18.8

One of my favorite guitar players since I was a teenager. When I was a teenager, I saw him play with Soul Live, with lettuce. I've seen him play with Tedeschi Trucks Band. He is one of those guitar players that can span all genres. R&B, bong, soul, pop, jazz, so many different things. I've seen him play in a lot of different settings, and it's super inspiring. Krasno is also one of the kings of guitar in the jam scene. I mean, come on. This cat can jam! He gets it. He gets it. Look, if you're somebody who's trying to jam, trying to know how to prepare for a jam session, this is one of those things. Some people are like, how do you jam?

0:54.9

How do you know what to do when you go to a jam session? How do you decide what to do? How can you prepare for that? I actually have thought a lot about this, and I made a video lesson on this in my guitar course, how to prepare for jam sessions. It might seem like a kind of counterintuitive thing of like, oh, like, you should just show up and play.

1:14.5

But there actually is ways that you can set yourself up for success going into jams, jam sessions, open mics, whatever, all that kind of stuff.

1:22.6

If you're interested in that, if you're interested in just getting better at the guitar bunk r&b soul all that stuff check

1:29.3

out my guitar course corey won guitar course it's over five and a half hours of videos i've been

1:34.8

adding to it for the last year i've even got some more stuff coming up before i raise the price on this

1:39.6

thing because it's just a one time one price no subscription thing you just get access to it forever and i continue to

1:45.9

add lessons on to it and guess what you just get them for free once you've bought in and

1:51.8

the price is just going to keep going up because that whole inflation thing everybody's talking about

1:56.0

yeah i don't i don't know stuff just going up in price. I don't know.

2:05.8

My yearly rate on that website to host it is going up.

2:07.1

So, you know, whatever.

2:08.6

This is what it is.

2:09.7

Check it out.

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