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  1. “To me, the base is one of the only instruments that when you play a bad note, everybody notices. I started on the bass. A kid”

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  2. “His intensity when he picked up his bass during the interview, he's an intense guy and funny and really emotional. And he picks up his base and there's a fierceness that you immediately feel and he starts, he talks about how he practices. And then when he starts doing slapping stuff, he's so into it, and I'm just sitting there going, whoa, wow.”

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  3. “So his stepfather was a jazz bass player. And when his parents got divorced, he was born in Australia, and then they moved to New York. Then his parents got divorced and his mom married his stepfather, who was a jazz musician. Then they used to have jam sessions at their place. And Flea loved it. It was kind of like my upgrading with my dad playing jazz all the time. Once it gets inside you, it's just there. And so he is heavily influenced by jazz musicians.”

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  4. “And I said, Well, what about the live records that you did when you'd record at clubs and things like that? He goes, we never knew that we were recording. He goes, maybe I'd see a microphone, a different kind of microphone in my bassamp. He goes, then months later, a record would come out and I'd see. And I was on it and I would take it down to the union and say, I played on this record so you can get paid for it. But he said, we didn't even know we were recording. Miles was always about don't think about it, just play.”

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  5. “Well, when I interviewed Ron Carter that played in Miles' 60s quintet, I asked Ron, because Ron did records he played bass on two thousand two hundred recording, famous records. And I said, did you guys ever rehearse with Miles? No. Never. I said, so what we do? He goes, we just show up at the studio and you have the charts, put him on the stand. And we would just roll. And I said, would you listen to it after? No”

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  6. “Was Herbie Hancock in the piano, Ron Carter in the bass, Tony Williams in the drums, and Wayne Shorter on the saxophone. And they made all these incredibly important records.”

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  7. “Because he was the greatest innovator in the history of jazz. He was at the forefront of all these different styles of jazz. I mean, he started as a bebop player and then you had records like the birth of cool and modal jazz and hardbop and records like Bitch's Brew where he started to, I guess you would call fusion. You start to get these records. You had two main groups of Miles Davis. You had the Miles Davis 50s quintet and the Miles Davis 60s quintet now Miles made records with many people, but the 50s quintet had John Cole train in it. I mean, it had different piano players, Winton Kelly, but Paul Chambers and the bass Philly Joe Jones and the drums. And that particular group was made just incredibly important records. And then he had his 60s group, which”

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  8. “This is just taking the needle, moving it there, then going back a little bit over there, and then by the end, the record was so scratched. It was, but it was worth it when I played it for my dad. Couldn't believe, I mean, he didn't say that's amazing. He was just like, hmm, pretty good.”

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  9. “I heard licks like that all over this, so I knew that that was. These licks He plays a lot of ideas like that. That's basically a C9 chord in the top notes of it. So, all these are just inversions of the same chord. So if I could play that, then it's just figuring out the single notes, okay? Okay, so if you just take this first part here, when he goes. So this intro part”

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  10. “Around with different shapes. That's amazing. I mean, look at that weird bar there. But then you get into these things So that stuff there, I could figure out. That stuff I could figure out. And then these things here. Those are just inversions of an. But I didn't know that. Heard Joe play that on the record. This is the last song out there. I listened to it a bunch of times and I started.”

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  11. “Trying every combination of fingers. I'd never played that chord. It's a weird looking chord But I kept, I moved my fingers around till I heard towards sounding like, oh, that's it, definitely. And I looked at my hand. I was like, what is that? Had no idea what it was.”

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  12. “To that brother to brother Gino Vanelli thing with Carlos Rios playing, that stuff is incredibly hard. This, I'm starting, I don't know any of these chords. So I start out Even know what that chord is, but I figured it out. And it's weird. I mean, look at that weird bar.”

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  13. “Joe Pass was a guitarist. He lived from 1929 to 1994. And he was one of the greatest bebop players and solo guitar players. So he made a record that this is off of called Virtuoso in 1973 that my dad gave me for Christmas when I was in tenth grade. And he said, and this is not like my dad, my dad worked for the railroad. He was very, you know, a few words spoken in 1919. He said, if you ever learned to play guitar like this, you've accomplished something with your life. And I was like, what? So that record state was unopened until about March after Christmas. And one day I was like, okay, I'll open it up and I put it on. I start listening to it. And I was like, whoa, this is kind of cool. And so I said, I think I can figure out some of this stuff. So I figured out this thing.”

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  14. “Yeah, just take it for granted. And my dad passed away in 2004, and we never really talked about that, but he and I used to listen to music together all the time. We'd put on a record. I sit on one side of the room, he'd sit on the other, and not say a word, listen through the whole side A, I'd go flip it over Listen to side B, never say a word, and then get up and go do stuff. And we did that all the time”

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  15. “And then when Dylan was born, I would sit with him for an hour every morning and listen to music. And I would look at him. In order for them to hear these phonemes apparently and develop this language or get the language acquisition has to involve the social brain. So when kids look at you, when a baby is looking at you, they're looking at your mouth and they're getting social cues from that. And this is also another component of saying this is where this word stops or starts and stops. These are how the phonemes are separated from one another. These are how they're connected. So I believe that all kids are born with perfect pitch and then around nine months they begin to lose it. If you don't engage their social brain making these pitches know, I never played pitches for Dylan. I said, this is a C, this is a...”

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  16. “I did a thing where I played what I call high information music, high information music would be. Bach, well tempered. Fuse anything Bach. And I would play the well-tempered clavier and I would play, I have a friend, Turkish pianist, who's one of the greatest improvisers I've ever heard. His name is Iden Essen. And I would play Eiden's improvisations for Dylan, had very sophisticated harmony and linear things in it. And Keith Jarrett and mainly jazz and modern classical music. And then we would play Listen to Rock Music once he was born. I'm talking on my wife's stomach before Dylan was born, starting at 15 weeks for 30 minutes a night.”

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  17. “And the second chord was A flat major over A major, but they were both an inversion, right? So it was like a first inversion A flat major chord, first inversion A major chord. And then A minor over D flat major and then E add 9 over F major. And for an eight-year-old, I mean, for anyone. Plus, they're all close voiced. They're all just right next to each other It's not like, you know, where you can hear them clear. It's all in the midrange of the piano. So you have to really listen. And you have to die. He has to dissect each one. Like, what are the notes being played there? And what's the theory? Because he's actually using music theory to dissect them.”

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  18. “He was annoyed. But the part of this, when I play these next chords, that's really, I think, why the video went so viral. The next part of this where I play these super complex polychords. Okay, I'm going to do some polychords for you. These are really going to be hard. You ready? What's this? Sing a B flat. Very good. What's this Singing F Excellent. What's this chord? Great. What's this chord? He had nine over F major. So I had to look at my hand to make sure that that's what it was because they're all in inversions. So, I think the reason that this went so viral is that the more that someone knew about music, the more that they shared the video because these polychords, so the People that were the best musicians would look at and was like, oh my God, C augmented over D flat augmented.”

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  19. “Around here we go as fast as you can. We're gonna start with single notes and we're gonna do some intervals, then chords. Okay, here we go. Good. Two notes at once. Here What about this?”

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  20. “That's in the right key. And I checked I play it on my phone. I was like, oh my gosh. And then I ask him, sing the Superman theme because we had been listening to John Williams soundtracks the week before. And he sings that. And that was in the right key. And I ask him another song. So I turned the car on. I go back to the studio. I go to the piano, hit the note B flat. And Dylan says, Star Wars. Star Wars starts on a big B flat major chord, but it's the note B flat is the main one that you hear. And then I played the no G and he goes, Superman. And that's the first note in the trumpet part of the Superman theme And then I realized that he had perfect pitch. And then in five minutes, I taught him the name of the 12 notes. He already knew, but he just didn't know the names”

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  21. “So, when Dylan was about two, I was doing a FaceTime with my brother John. And I was like, check this out, John. And I play the Stone in Love Neil Jones solo journey. And I was like, check this out. And Dylan would sing along. And my brother John was like, wow, Dylan can sing all the notes. And I was like, yeah. And then I played Black Dog, Zeppelin, and Dylan would sing that. Like Dylan's got a good ear, and then John and I were like, Well, we have good ears too. So maybe we could have done that or that age. So a couple more years goes by. Well, he was about three and a half. And I'm in the car. I was like, Dylan, sing the Star Wars theme. And he sings it. And I'm like,”

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  22. “Now, just a quick backstory on this. I made this for my friend Shane's wife who wanted to see because Shane was a Friend that I was producing, and he was there, and Dylan had come down the day in the day. And I said, oh, check this out. And I played this stuff. He's like, that's amazing. Can you make a video so I can show my wife? And I was on the way to a school board meeting because I was on the school board at Dylan's School. And I said, hey, Dylan, come downstairs. I want to make this video. It'll take one minute. Just need to do this thing for my friend Shane. And he's like, I don't want to. And I said, come on, so take one minute. I don't want to. So I said to my wife, I'm like, Nean, would you tell Dylan to come downstairs? I want to do this video. Take one minute. She's like, Dylan, go downstairs. And he has a mouthful of candy there because he was eating candy. So if you look at him, he's”

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  23. “Which is why I leave my guitar on a stand all the time so that if I walk by it and like, okay, I'll just pick it up for a second. And then the second turns into 10 minutes and an hour, two hours.”

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  24. “Every day. My son Dylan, when he started learning the guitar a couple years ago, I said, it's better to practice 10 minutes a day, seven days a week than to practice one day for an hour, which is roughly the same amount of time.”

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  25. “Later on, I would say necessarily right off the bat. I think learning songs is the first thing that you should do because you want to keep people motivated.”

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  26. “Sometimes you use both because in stairway to heaven, you're using the fingers at the beginning or fingers and pick, hybrid, they call it hybrid picking, and then later on you're using the pick to flat pick the picking patterns.”

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  27. “And then you have finger picking if you have stairway to heaven, songs like that about wanting to learn that involves finger picking because you have to isolate certain notes of the chord and play two together, you know, and multiple times.”

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  28. “Well, then it's like if you play electric guitar, then you get into single note playing and stuff like that. That's where it gets to me where it gets really fun. You know, you have single note playing with riffs, if you think of back in black, right, that has a riff embedded in the actual melody or many songs that have riffs, the Hendrix stuff that has chordal riffs, and you're moving up the neck and involving all the fingers and things like that. So it really depends on what you want to, what styles you want to play.”

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  29. “She's doing acoustic guitar. Not for that long, though. For like a week Couple weeks. I don't want to discourage anyone. You know, it's actually pretty easy to learn basic stuff. Right.”

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  30. “So, all these micro adjustments that you don't even think about, I mean, you're not thinking about that likes when you're playing it. You've done it so many times that these things are just part of your brain. That's why this is so great brain developer for kids to learn instruments.”

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  31. “I think a lot of it has to do with how they wear their guitars. If you wear your guitar low, if you're Hendrix and you're wearing your guitar. You're wearing it lower, then you can't get your fingers on top of it like that. And the thumb acts as a way to mute the lower strings from ringing if you're playing through a loud amplifier. So there's so many other micro adjustments when you're playing leads because you have to kind of mute the other strings that are so they don't ring out. If you're playing the first note and comfortably numb at the solo at the end, and you're at the ninth fret of the G string and you bend that, If you bend that G string and you accidentally hit the B string under it Don't want that ringing, so you have to kind of angle your index finger Mute that.”

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  32. “You have to out of mid air strike the string that your fingers on to play the note, and these are all fine adjustments that you're doing.”

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  33. “Yeah. You learn the chord shapes and you learn how to strum basic patterns to begin with. I think the first thing for learning guitar is actually how to position your fingers so that you don't mute strings that you don't want to mute. That's the hardest thing for people to do, basically, is to get their fingers arched to where they, if you're playing a C major chord, your index fingers on the first fret of the B string, you have to have that open E string ringing there, and it's hard for people to make those micro adjustments. You take it for granted like she's been playing guitar for I don't know how many years, forever, right? And you don't even think about stuff like that when you're playing a guitar solo. Every little thing that you do if you're playing your comfortably numb guitar solo.”

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  34. “Well, if you're a beginner getting a good beginner guitar course and learning, first of all, the open chords in first position, a lot of songs can be played that way, a lot of old songs can be played that way, maybe not new modern songs necessarily”

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  35. “Have to be taught together because these terms are really music theory, right? Those intervals, major, second, minor, second, major, third, minor, third, perfect, fourth. So as you're doing that, and then once you learn the intervals. 12 intervals in an active, then you learn in both melodically and harmonically, so played together and separate. Then you learn chords. And so then you learn to identify major, minor, diminished, augmented, suspended chords, things like that. Well, you're basically learning music theory at the same time with that. Because music theory is just the name of things. Music”

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  36. “It's great if you want to hear a chord progression, if you're trying to figure out a song, and you can say, Oh, that's going from the six minor chord to the four major to the five major to the one major. And you can just identify it immediately. And then you figure out what the first chord is, then you know what the rest of the chords are because they're in relation to whatever that first chord is. And for learning solos, for example, or learning melodies, being able to sound something out”

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  37. “I think you'd do it pretty quickly within, you know, if you practice within a couple months, you can really make a lot of progress on it if you practice daily.”

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  38. “Well, my course will play you an interval, and then you identify it by clicking on whether it's a major third or minor third or major sixth or minor six or perfect fifth or tritone, whatever it is. And it will teach you gradually over time how to recognize all the intervals.”

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  39. “Both, so played separately. It's called melodic intervals, right? Like a melody, an harmonic intervals are played like a harmony together. So you have to be able to identify them both, both ways”

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  40. “Just practice basically. You start with intervals, typically with small intervals like minor, second, major second. So minor second behalf step, major second to be whole step.”

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  41. “Relative pitch is basically learning how to identify pitches relative to a stated tonic or something that you've heard, or just relative to each other. If you hear a note and then you hear another note after it, you can recognize, let's say it's a minor third interval. So if you're on the note A, the next note would be C. So once you're given a reference note, you can use relative pitch to identify the relative nature from one pitch to another.”

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  42. “Ability to identify any note without a reference tone. So you can play, it doesn't matter how quickly they are that they can, a person with perfect pitch can hear a note and immediately identify it, or a collection of notes”

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  43. “And I watch this, the linguistic genius of babies. I saw this in 2010, this lecture that she did, like a TED Talk. She talks about this that kids did an experiment. They exposed kids to Mandarin three times a week for 25-minute sessions. Person speaking Mandarin to these babies, and they were able to recognize the sounds, the phonemes of that language even later on. And when I realized that my son Dylan had perfect pitch, I thought, why does Dylan have perfect pitch, but no one? In my family, I had ever had perfect pitch. And I thought, well, it must be because of the things I exposed to him. Prenatally, and then in the first nine months of his life, because it's the only way I could explain it.”

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  44. “Hearing it as a kid is one of the things that I think enables you, just like languages, enables you to learn it as opposed to somebody that's never been exposed to it and tries to learn it as a teenager. I think it's very similar to learning languages. Kind of like my theory on perfect pitch that every child is born with perfect pitch and they start to lose the ability around nine months. When people become culturally bound listeners, when babies do. They start out as citizens of the world. They have the neural pathways to hear the sounds, the phonemes of all 6,500 languages spoken on Earth. But then around nine months, they begin to lose that ability When they become these culturally bound listeners, there's a great YouTube video with this woman, Patricia Coole. She's a language researcher”

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  45. “Yeah, so that is one of the most difficult styles to master because all these things are a language. Blues playing, they're all just languages, right? It's just like you'd learn any type of language. My dad loved bebop. Now, when I was a little kid and he's listening to these bebop records, whether it's Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie or Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, great jazz guitar player, I'm just hearing this stuff. I don't know any different. My dad was not a musician, but for some reason he liked incredibly sophisticated music that was very technical. Just heard it and just was like, Oh, yeah, okay, cool, and not realizing that it was developing my ear because I really beep up is one of the hardest. Improvise in that style, in that language of bebop, it's very difficult to do.”

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  46. “Well, after the big bands were happening from the 20s through the 40s. Small people would go out and play in small groups that they would tour with, and Charlie Parker, who's really kind of one of the main figures of early Bebop, really developed the language of it. Usually the music that they're playing over are standard chord progressions That they would use as vehicles to improvise over. A lot of them were ABA form. And Charlie Parker Created this language of improvisation that was far more sophisticated than the swing players of the big band era. Think of people like Benny Goodman of that era. They would have really fast tempo songs, angular lines, chromaticism, things like that, chromatic notes.”

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  47. “So Django was, well, there's a huge movement right now, Gypsy Jazz movement, as they call it. That is kind of built around the style of music that he played back in the early 20th century. One of the things about Django is that he was in a fire. And he had two of his third and fourth fingers, so his ring finger and pinky were essentially melted together. He had no use of them, although he could use them while he was courting, but a lot of these incredibly fast lines, he's just playing with two fingers. It's amazing.”

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  48. “No, but I don't want to say greatest, you can say, well, There are people that inspire Jimi Hendrix. Charlie Christian, older guitar players, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt were the first two really big, and probably, and Andre Segovia were three of the giants of the 20th century as far as guitar influences for most of the players that were to follow”

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  49. “Fun. But they do change Lex from day to day. Anytime I do a list, if I do 20, I like to do 20 because that gives me some leeway to throw in. I have to throw in something that is so weird that people, you know, something that a lot of people won't know just to have it on there so I can at least introduce a, you know, I'll put somebody like Alan Holdsworth who's a famous fusion guitar player. I'll throw in one of his solos or something. Just some oddball solo in there just so that people as they're listening down the list will get exposed to something they would not necessarily get exposed to.”

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  50. “When I look back on it now, my mom's been gone for 10 years now. When I look back on it, it's like, my God, my parents were so cool.”

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