The Fearless Flyers: Flight School is in Session!
Wong Notes
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4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back for a special episode of Wong Notes! If you couldn’t make it to Cory’s Syncopated Summer Camp, this one’s for you: It features Wong and his Flyers bandmates—Nate Smith on drums, Joe Dart on bass, and Mark Lettieri on guitar—in a live masterclass recording from this summer, as they jam and break down an original composition.
The group starts off with a rowdy rip through the tune (which, apparently, didn’t go so well when they played it in Italy) before slowing down its constituent parts and highlighting Lettieri’s thoughtful arrangements. Each member of the band takes a turn explaining their approach to jamming and improvising—and how to know when trouble is coming. (For Smith, it’s when one player tries to “force an agenda.”)
The most important instrument for a successful jam and songwriting session? Your ears: It all comes back to listening. So listen in and learn with the best on this exclusive instalment.
Recorded LIVE at the Syncopated Summer Camp presented by Dreamcatcher Events: http://dreamcatcher-events.com
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. This week on the show, |
| 0:08.5 | we've got The Fearless Flyers. If you're unfamiliar with the fearless flyers, it is a band with myself on the guitar, |
| 0:15.2 | Mark Letary on baritone guitar, Joe Dart on bass, and the legendary Nate Smith on drums. |
| 0:21.9 | This is actually a unique podcast because it's taken from a master class that we held at the |
| 0:27.2 | syncopated summer camp, which is a camp that I've been holding every year. |
| 0:31.8 | I mean, every year, the last two years. |
| 0:33.9 | Hopefully we'll do it again next year. |
| 0:36.0 | The syncopated summer camp hosted by myself and Dream |
| 0:40.4 | Catcher Events took place in Nashville, Tennessee just a month or so ago. Incredible time, |
| 0:47.4 | four days and nights of workshops, classes, jams, concerts. All of it, it was an absolute blast. We had a fun time. This one went so well. |
| 0:57.1 | I was like, I feel like people need to see this one. This is a fun one. We talk a lot about rhythm section |
| 1:02.5 | arranging, how we write our music, and how it's not just jamming on a chord, how we're |
| 1:08.4 | actually coming up with parts, trying to make things or writing a real tune rather than just playing a chord. |
| 1:14.6 | Also, the Fearless Flyers have a brand new live in Italy album that we did literally days before the camp. |
| 1:21.6 | We were in Italy and got home, just mixed the record. Oh, this is great. |
| 1:26.6 | Just sick. Then just put it out, |
| 1:28.9 | which is a fun thing to be able to do as an independent artist. Also, if you're the type of person |
| 1:33.6 | who's into vinyl records, we have a vinyl pre-order going on right now over a Diggers factory. |
| 1:39.0 | Just look up Fearless Flyers live in Italy vinyl. You'll find it. Anyways, very stoked about this episode, very excited to be |
| 1:47.0 | able to share this part of the camp with you. At some point, I'll put out the video as well on |
| 1:51.7 | YouTube so you can see it. But thanks for being with us. I really appreciate it. Without further ado, |
| 1:56.9 | here we go. Getting your music out in the world doesn't have to be complicated with distro kid |
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