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Wong Notes

Paul Gilbert’s Shred School Is in Session

Wong Notes

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Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The professor is in. He dives deep into EVH’s moves, talks about why he prefers high action, and goes “full rant mode” into technical tips. 

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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. I hope you're having a great end of your year, holiday season, all that. I've been spending the last week doing a little reflecting on the last year, a touring that I've done, the recording, writing, producing, different records that I've worked on. And I'm feeling great about this past year. I feel great about the past year. The podcast. Incredible year. Maybe the most exciting. A lot of really great episodes. And it's been a lot of fun to do. And that's what's been most important. So I hope you're digging on those things. Speaking of other projects that I've been working on, I have a band called Wolfpack,

0:39.8

and we have a record coming out in a few days, Friday, December 30th, called Schwitz.

0:46.0

Check it out. If you're into vinyl and that sort of thing, we got a pre-order campaign

0:50.6

thingy going for a couple more days. Check that wolfpack schvitz great new record that i'm

0:56.5

really excited about we recorded it in one week actually in five days at theo's house theo from

1:02.8

wolfpec and we recorded it in his house there's a room that we made look like a sauna and it was

1:09.0

really awesome and really fun and it was a fun experience for us to

1:13.3

just get back together as a band and do some more recording got some other things coming up

1:17.4

some announcements coming up soon so stay tuned for that you'll hear about it here and elsewhere so

1:23.9

i hope you dig it wolfpeck sch Schfitz, check out the record.

1:29.4

It's wherever you listen to music.

1:31.5

Hey, speaking to great records, today on the podcast, I have Paul Gilbert.

1:35.9

Paul Gilbert has been on insane albums, insane records.

1:40.9

I'm talking hit records in the pop sphere.

1:43.8

I'm talking shred records that are iconic. I'm talking hit records in the pop sphere. I'm talking shred records that are iconic.

1:47.5

I'm talking the sort of things that's just like reference material for guitar players in different

1:53.4

genres. Paul's an incredible player and just a wonderful dude and I have enjoyed getting to know

1:59.4

Paul and just being inspired by him.

2:03.0

I first got hip to him actually from one of his instructional videos.

2:07.2

I watched it over and over again and to be honest, there's a couple passages where it's like,

2:12.2

come on, dude, slow it down.

2:14.2

But the tabs always helped.

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