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Wong Notes

Nile Rodgers: The Ambassador of Rhythm Guitar

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

From production to writing to tone, the guitarist/producer extraordinaire breaks down his creative strategies and talks about his guitar collection, including the Hitmaker. 

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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong

Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening? Welcome to Wongnodes podcast. It's the finale, and I'm stoked because I have one of my biggest

0:10.1

influences of all time on the show today. Nile Rogers. I'm so stoked. I can't even put it into

0:17.9

words. We started the season with Pat Mathini. We're ending with

0:22.6

Nile Rogers. Two of my favorite guitar players of all time. I can't believe it. It's incredible.

0:30.1

Well, I'm stoked too because it's the holiday season and I got to run a nice little special

0:36.4

thanks to Teachable.

0:37.8

I've got a guitar course out there that teaches rhythm guitar, lead guitar, how to practice, what to practice, how to get the most efficient use out of your practice.

0:48.0

Some people have the problem of they'll sit down for an hour and they don't feel like they really got anything done when they practice guitar.

0:55.0

This course, I am teaching you how to get the absolute most out of your practice time.

1:00.7

When I was in college, I would practice several hours a day and I would feel like,

1:04.7

I'm not quite, I don't feel like I'm actually getting better.

1:10.2

So what I've done is I've developed a

1:12.2

practice routine, several practice routines and techniques and just principles of practice

1:17.2

that now when I sit down to practice, if I have 15 minutes or if I have an hour, I make sure

1:23.1

that I feel like I've gotten efficient and proper use of my time and effort towards getting better at the guitar.

1:31.0

That stuff is all on this course.

1:33.3

It is normally 175 bucks.

1:35.1

Right now, write this down.

1:37.0

It's the code, Holiday 79.

1:40.3

The course is just 79 bucks.

1:42.7

You get five and a half hours of lessons. I, if you invest your time and money into this course, you will be a better player. Guarantee it. How about that? All right. Today on the show, we got Nile Rogers. Like I said, one of the most influential guitar players of all time. Why?

2:05.3

Because he basically was one of the first ambassadors for rhythm guitar.

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