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title: "The Beautiful Electric Guitar"

description: "After subjecting (treating?) you to a 22 minute guitar solo, it only felt natural to wax poetic on the electic guitar. I share a bit of my journey from a young guitarist to a multi-instrumentalist, and how that has shaped my musical vocabulary and energy."

status: complete

date: 2022-04-18

kind: solo

guestSlugs: []

listenUrl: "https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lovemusicmore/episodes/The-Beautiful-Electric-Guitar-e1grn74"
appleUrl: "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-beautiful-electric-guitar/id1567355195?i=1000557915335&uo=4"
spotifyUrl: "https://open.spotify.com/episode/4rxO5Q6YLozvTA0lcH7Pwo"

topicsDiscussed:
  - "Guitar"
  - "The beach"
  - "Genre"
  - "Personal journey"
  - "Emotional connection to music"

hostNote: |
  "I've never felt a guitar feel this good before." That moment, picking up a Telecaster after years on inferior instruments, wasn't just about the hardware. It changed the direction I was heading entirely, from metal toward something with more space and more voice in it.
  
  I trace what that shift actually meant: learning an instrument as a singer rather than as a technician, where the goal isn't fluency for its own sake but finding a voice that says something. Guitar has always been my home instrument, but the journey through surf, melody, and multi-instrumentalism gave me a vocabulary I couldn't have built on guitar alone.
  
  The frame I come back to is this: "it just becomes part of you and then you have a voice." Finding that is the whole project.

selectedMoments:
  - label: "I reflect on his first guitar"
    startSec: 46
    note: "I recall receiving a knockoff Stratocaster guitar as a child, which fueled his desire to play metal."
  - label: "Shifting musical direction"
    startSec: 182
    note: "After discovering the feel of a Telecaster, I describe how it changed his musical direction from metal to surf guitar."
  - label: "Guitar as a vocal instrument"
    startSec: 273
    note: "I share the profound realization that his guitar serves as a vocal expression, especially during his musical learning."
  - label: "The importance of fluency in music"
    startSec: 450
    note: "I discuss the significance of being fluent on an instrument to sustain creativity and musical expression."
  - label: "Guitar as self-identity"
    startSec: 676
    note: "I reflect on how the guitar is intertwined with his identity as a musician, defining who I i in the music world."
  - label: "Conclusion on love for guitar"
    startSec: 632
    note: "I wrap up by discussing the deep, almost intrinsic, relationship I ha with playing guitar."

excerptQuotes:
  - text: "Guitar is my main instrument. Even when I think of this bass because I play a lot of bass, it's always going to come back to guitar."
    startSec: 2
    reviewed: true
  - text: "I want to talk about my personal journey with it and maybe I'll inspire some other guitarists."
    startSec: 90
    reviewed: true
  - text: "I started playing with basically the intention of playing metal as any self-respecting 12-year-old would do."
    startSec: 93
    reviewed: true
  - text: "But then I realized, oh my gosh, I've never felt a guitar feel this good before."
    startSec: 178
    reviewed: true
  - text: "If you learn an instrument from the beginning as a singer, the instrument is just you singing."
    startSec: 360
    reviewed: true
  - text: "It just becomes part of you and then you have a voice and then that's the most special thing."
    startSec: 636
    reviewed: true

faq:
  - question: "What is my journey with the electric guitar?"
    answer: "I share my evolution from aspiring metal guitarist to discovering the Telecaster, which significantly influenced his musical journey."
  - question: "How has surf guitar impacted my music?"
    answer: "Surf guitar introduced I to melodic expression and formed the core of his musical identity, shaping his sensitivity to melodies."
  - question: "Why do I consider guitar a vocal instrument?"
    answer: "I emphasize that for him, playing the guitar allows him to express emotions and ideas that his voice cannot convey."

transcriptPublished: false

draft: false
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