This was in 2002, when I was playing with the band S-X, and we were practicing and I was playing the most beautiful guitar on the planet, which didn’t turn out to be the guitar I thought it was. I had only played it on YouTube and it’s this old-school, classic-styled, two-pickup, a classic-style acoustic guitar that I only recently discovered that I loved it on. In a way, the guitar was my new-found love – if I’d been asked “How do you get a guitar like this?” I would always say I’ve had this guitar for years, but I still couldn’t quite figure it out, and the guitar seemed dead to me until just recently.
Did you spend time after school just studying and practicing the guitar?
At least, that’s how it looked for me, but then after a while I realized that I actually enjoyed it, it was a really freeing thing for me to know that I could play anything I want, because I didn’t have to do anything. Then later I started to study more and get a bit of an interest in it, but I still just really loved it.
There’s the idea of learning the guitar and then practicing it, too, and you say that you don’t want to play live?
I do, sometimes. I will go out and do something just for the fun, then afterwards I’d say “Why go out and go out and do something? I don’t know how many different ways I can learn things and still not do it.” But for the most part, what I do is just sit down, go somewhere and try to learn something new. It’s fun.
Why?
Because I love to challenge myself, in a way. So I would go out and see what I couldn’t understand, then go somewhere and try to figure that out. I love to see how far I can push myself. And, again, the guitar really brings it out. It’s a really great tool to play that – there is nothing better than doing something with your hands.
What’s your approach to being a guitar player – do you learn from books?
I do! I read books. I love to read. I have a huge library. Sometimes I read in silence. At home I would try to learn something, then I would write it down. I’m very impatient. I’d love to get something done in my spare time
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