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Wong Notes

Mateus Asato on Thinking Beyond the Guitar

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Mateus Asato shares on his experiences playing with pop stars, what it means to be of service to a song, and how taking a break from social media—which was where he built his fan base of 1.2 million—was crucial to his mental health.

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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? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong.

0:07.0

I'm coming at you from somewhat sunny-ish, Las Vegas, Nevada. I'm here at the G4 guitar camp.

0:15.0

Quite fun, Joe Satriani's guitar camp. Joe invited me to come be one of the instructors, which I was very happy to come do.

0:23.0

Happy to get out of Minnesota. I think it snowed like a foot last night or something.

0:28.1

Anyway, it's been really fun to be here because I even just get to hang with some of my heroes.

0:33.1

Like it's been fun to teach. It's been really great to get into that and kind of share some of my knowledge and experience.

0:39.4

But also, selfishly, just kind of fun to hang with Peter Frampton and have dinner with Steve Lukather and Satriani and all these guys.

0:48.4

Incredible.

0:49.0

Great concerts every night.

0:50.3

I've been having a blast.

0:51.6

I've also been hanging out with my good friend, Matea Sassado, who I just interviewed last night

0:56.4

in the hotel lobby business center area.

1:00.8

So, yeah, in the interview,

1:01.8

you're going to hear a little bit of background

1:03.0

and noise here and there.

1:04.4

Sue me!

1:05.8

You might know Mattias just from being on the internet

1:08.7

because you're probably an internet person, because

1:11.1

this is an internet podcast, whatever.

1:15.8

Mateus is incredible.

1:17.2

Absolutely one of the best players of our time, such a fluid, dynamic, creative player, and just

1:25.0

very inspiring to watch.

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