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Wong Notes

Vai on Vai: “That’s Me—Obtuse and Quirky.”

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The legend talks gear, almost jamming with Prince, guitar heroes, melody, fear, swapping technique for passion, his hydra guitar, why he chose the players on his latest album, and his true superpower.

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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 Wong Notes podcast. I am your host, Corey Wong. I'm stoked today because we have one of my absolute guitar heroes on the show, Steve Vi. Come on. If you're listening to this podcast, you already know who Steve Vi is. You're on a guitar podcast. You know who Steve Vi is. He's one of the

0:21.4

modern day guitar heroes. He's been a guitar hero for what 30 years now, and he's probably

0:26.5

cemented himself in the history of mankind as one of the heroes on the instrument. Steve has such a

0:32.6

unique way of delivering a melody and also having so much technical facility at the same time.

0:38.0

I feel like a lot of people who play tons of lead stuff or who are quote unquote shredders.

0:44.2

Some of this stuff doesn't feel like it delivers the melody in a singing quality.

0:49.9

But I feel like Steve somehow is able to deliver a melody in a way that feels a little more like a singer.

0:57.6

I don't know.

0:58.3

I get into this with him.

0:59.6

One of the other things that we get into is the fact that a lot of lead players focus only on that and they don't know how to play rhythm guitar.

1:08.4

There's a lot of people out there who just have a hard time playing rhythm guitar, don't know how to play rhythm guitar. There's a lot of people out there who just have a hard time playing rhythm

1:12.1

guitar, don't know how to play rhythm guitar, just don't know what to practice or how to practice.

1:18.5

I have the solution for you. Corrie Wong Guitar Course.com. That's it. I made about six hours

1:25.5

worth of lessons, everything from how I practice, what I practice,

1:30.2

how to practice rhythm guitar, how to think differently about rhythm, how to think about lead

1:34.6

guitar and rhythm combined together, how to plan for recording sessions, for getting gigs.

1:41.1

There's a whole section on mastering the Panatonic scale.

1:43.9

I dig it.

1:44.6

I absolutely swear by it.

1:46.0

I promise you.

1:47.3

If you get this course, you go through all the lessons, you will be a much better guitar player.

1:52.5

I promise.

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