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I'm rediscovering my passion for the c for the guitar. I started playing as a teenager. Got my first guitar when I was oh man. Can't remember how old I was. Um probably like 13 or something. Got my first guitar. Started learning on metal music. Metal music, rock music, I mean, like Metallica, Pantera, Deft Tones. I think I learned like almost the whole Deft Tones album, the adrenaline album, but man, how did I start rediscovering my passion? For one, okay. My younger brother had his guitar at the local music store. He wanted me to go and pick it up for him because he couldn't go pick it up. And they were working on it or something. I picked it up, had it at the house. I opened up the case. Oh no, I didn't open up the case. They showed it to me, right? I looked at it, I was like, dang, look at that guitar. Beautiful looking guitar. And then this was like a couple weeks ago, maybe a month or two ago. I forgot about it. And then a couple days ago at open mic number 17 or 18, open mic number 18. It's not just comedy open mic, it's music open mic, okaraoke, all kinds of open mic. There was a guitar there. I was like, man, and it was so tempting. I saw that guitar, and I was like, man, I want to play that guitar. So I signed up just to play the guitar. I was planning to do comedy, but I really wanted to try out that guitar. So I tried out the I picked up the guitar, I played one chord, and I played a two-octave scale. Or is it three-octave scale? The two octave scale, C major. No pick, used my fingers on my right hand. And I was like, man, I was super rusty. And then put it down, did my bits, whatever I came up with, and then I went home. And then yesterday, that was a couple days ago. Yesterday, I went to guitar center because I had to get a I got a new mic right here. But I had to get a an XLR cable, which is the cable that runs from the mic to the the mixer. And got the XLR cable. And then I was like, you know what? Let me let me go try try out one of the guitars. Because they got walls of guitars at Guitar Center, right? So I picked up uh the first guitar I picked up was a telecaster, Fender Telecaster. Thinking that I was gonna like it because I had a I had a squire before, right? Squire telecaster. I like the shape of it, but the neck was it was like it's fat. It's too fat. It's weird. Um so I was like, let me try a different one. And so I went to the good old Ibana's. I've had Ibanez guitar before. I had a seven-string one at one point, two seven-string, different seven strings at one point. First guitar I had was a lotus, it was like a knockoff of offender. But I was like, oh shoot, I like I I remember why I liked the Ibana is because the neck is real thin. So I started plucking, playing a few things. The first one I played was a six-string, and I was like, nah, and then I did the seven, I tried a seven string, it was like a twelve hundred dollar guitar, seven string with fan frets. And then I went back to I was like, let me try a different guitar, maybe a different brand to see if the neck. I think I picked up a Schechter or a Jackson, might have been a I don't remember which one, but they had a similar neck to the I Benn is that I liked, right? But it was a six-string, and I was like, man, I really like that seven string. I really want to try out an eight-string. Um, so just rediscovering my passion for guitar, man, is it's uh sentimental, sentimental. So I wanted to share that real quick with you guys before I get into some other stuff that I'm talking about. Um yeah, so let me see what else I got. So I think I'm probably gonna so on that on the guitar thing, I'm probably gonna get I'm probably gonna get another guitar because I don't have a guitar in the house. A lot of people will probably be mad for saying that because my my degree was in music, classical guitar was my instrument, and at first I want I thought I wanted a classical guitar when I came, like right now, at this point in time, but then I picked up that electric and I was like, man, I really want that electric instead of the classical because I started on electric guitar. Uh it wasn't cla I didn't learn classical until I got to high school and then college eventually it was nothing but classical guitar. Um yeah, so that's that's that there. Oh my gosh. So yeah, and I've been into music for for years. I've been in a couple bands. Uh first band I've ever been in was called Nihilism. Nobody wants to look back at their first band, right? Like, oh, my first band was this. It's probably some cheesy band that they they started out with, whatever. Hey, we all gotta start somewhere, right? Nihilism. Uh second band was called Wicked Red, which we had this I had the same drummer uh in the band, but he was the singer in Wicked Red, and then stopped doing that. And then what else did I do? Got into going to church, and then I started playing bass and guitar at a local church, and then got into college, started learning classical guitar, played classical guitar for years, for years, learned how to I learned how to read music, uh, which I think that was an integral part of my musical journey that I'm glad that I learned. And they say a lot of musicians don't read music, which is fine. I think great musicians do a lot of great musicians don't know how to read music. Um what I say is like it won't hurt you, but it will definitely up your game learning how to read music. Um because it's patterns, right? On the guitar, you see it's all patterns, right? You got a scale here, you got a chord here, whatever. It's all patterns. With music, it's patterns, but it's aural, like visual, not only like like it like the guitar is aural when you're looking at it with your fingers, but music is aural. Aural meaning your your ear. Right. You got ear, sight, ears, your sight, and your your touch, right? Touch is the instrument, aura is the ear, what the what it sounds like, and then your sight is what it looks like on a piece of paper. And it all goes back to like what that Baroque like those old school periods where I think it was the Baroque where they took invented like the 12-tone piano or something like that, and that's why Bach started doing the uh the partitas and the studies and the different keys that are in the the uh Western music world or whatever, like there's a whole history behind why there's only so many tones in the in the musical alphabet, um the musical, whatever, the music sphere or whatever. But learn how to read music definitely is a game changer. Um because you can see it, you can you can hear it, and then you can play it. Like it's it just ups your game totally. You know how to build the chord, you know how to build scales, you know where the chords come from on a scale, like if you have a D major scale or a C major scale, you know which chords are the which chords go where, which are the leading tones, which are the which the what's the tonic, the subdom, the subtonic, the dominant, subdominant, you know, all those the different notes in the scale, how to piece a chord progression together from a particular scale, and that's called music theory. So aside from sight, sound and touch, you have a theory behind the music, why, which notes, like the why and the how certain notes go together. That's where you get scales, you get modes, and then like jazz, like jazz, I think is the ultimate music because I think jazz is like the ultimate the the pinnacle of of music because it there like western music theory is just like out the window with jazz. There's still like chords, scales, and stuff like that, and those are based off of the Western system, but it jazz goes into different keys, it doesn't stick to like a certain key, modulate to one key, like the like the dominant key for a little bit, and then go modulate back to the original key. With jazz, it's it's two five one, like in a bunch of different keys, like totally unrelated keys, maybe, you know, a semi-tonal way, like it's it's so like jazz is so complex. Like when I was trying to learn jazz like on the guitar, I learned a little bit, but it's like an entire world that if you're not completely and fully immersed in it, like always playing it, then it's hard to grasp. Um and it's not I don't a lot of people don't get it, you know what I mean. I think it's like for the music nerds, you know what I mean, and people that do genuinely enjoy jazz because there's a lot there's a lot of key changes, key shifts, and stuff like that, as opposed to like your modern radio pop music that is just most of it is in the same key, same key, like throughout the entire song. It might do a key change, but it's it's the same throughout the entire song. Uh and then you get into rhythm, like rhythm, you have your standard like six, you know, uh waltz rhythm, like like a six, eight feel, like a one, two, three, four, five, six, one, two, three, four, five, six throughout the song. You may have some time, some key uh rhythm changes, but for the most part it sticks to the same thing over and over. You got common time, which is one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, right? And then you got uh you got common time, and then you got the the triple time, uh, and those are the main two in pop music that everybody knows. But outside of that type of music, you got odd times, like tool is the main one that I'm thinking about. You got progressive rock, progressive metal, where they do like all like crazy all kinds of stuff, and that's and that type of progressive stuff, it still seems like it kind of sticks to the modal structure of the of Western music. Although I'm starting to think about like animals as leaders, how some of this stuff cannot like strictly be like in one key, you know what I mean? That type of stuff. And the world music is huge, like I can't claim to know every single style, but every but it's out there, you know what I mean? It's it's out there, and find something that you like and just learn how to play it. Like, that's that's what I did. I I liked metal music, I liked Pantera Metallica. Okay, that's all I knew. You know what I mean? The the people around me would were listening to that. My stepmom would listen to that when she was younger, and that's how they got me into that. And I was like, Well, this is around me, I'm gonna learn this, you know. And then you get into a bunch of different camps, like, oh, why are you learning that? Should be learning this, that da that la la la, all this stuff, and then it just paralyzes you to where you don't want to learn nothing. You know what I mean? And then there's that social game again that I can talk about. You get into that social aspect where social policing, you know what I mean? Social policing is where people want to put you in a box because it may make them look bad, they want to control over you. You know what I mean? So try not to be social police when you're learning music that you want to learn. If you're learning a song that you want to learn, somebody's making fun of you for learning it, forget I mean, try not to listen to them. What are they like at and it's like those people that say that it's like, what are you learning? Like, what are you doing? Are you actually working on your craft? You know, most cases like that, you know what I mean? But um, so just when it comes to So I'm getting into a different topic here. I just talked about music for a minute there, but just like getting into being part of a part of society in every social, every like like industry, circle, what have you, there's always that social policing, there's that negativity, there's that positivity, so we have to learn how to how to live in those situations and how to be you know just ourselves, stuff like that. Um yeah, I'm looking at my recording here to make sure it's the recording, it's just timed out. Um, but yeah, I'm recording on these. I got the roadcaster, got the mic, the sure SM7B, got the camera. But yeah, so I'm gonna stop this video. I just talked about music for a minute and I'm gonna make another video. Maybe make another video talk about social policing and stuff like that. Um, which is mostly the stuff that I do talk about. And um there's something in the background I want to know if y'all hear that. I'll read, listen back to that. Anyways, thanks a lot, you guys. Hope that helps.

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