{"id":5679,"date":"2018-08-02T08:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T23:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2018-08-02T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T12:22:00","slug":"musical-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/musical-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Musical Inspiration from Joe Satriani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an inspirational anecdote from Joe Satriani<\/strong><\/a> about playing the chorus arpeggio’s from “Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing” from his Flying in a Blue Dream<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(1989) album. I remember first hearing those arpeggios and thinking: “What the hell was that?” They really sounded that distinctive; they seemed to jump out at me and demand attention.<\/p>\n

I was very surprised recently to hear he spent 8 hours a day for a few weeks perfecting them – and they probably amount to 6 seconds of material from a 64-minute album. I shouldn’t be surprised because spending hours a day perfecting a technique is what virtuosos (or virtuosi) do, but I had just assumed that by 1989, Joe had the skills to play … well anything.<\/p>\n

They are timely reminders that everyone has to practice and that hard work does pay off. The next time I come across something that feels too hard to play – I have one such piece in mind actually, I’ll hopefully recall this segment and be motivated to give it a try.\u00a0 Perhaps not though for eight hours a day for a few weeks; I have a day job. Anyway, Joe Satriani, thanks for the inspiration. Below the video containing the arpeggio anecdote, is the full interview the anecdote was taken from.<\/p>\n