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So yeah. Without further Ado, here's episode 2. Transitions like my, my shameful, my shameful secret is like I don't have anything memorized like even with like his like I'm sure if you like I know that there's monologues that I could just like pull out but like I don't have anything in my head ever, but I know I know I've talked to you about this before but you know that that have you seen the video? I've done on that. I did about how to memorize stuff.
You have it. You're like I did watch it but I don't remember it being well. Hey, baby to the right to the folks. Folks, folks, folks watching at home. Are we gonna do that Arena and actively reference? Yeah. Well, no, actually, I'm going to to the folks watching at home. Who haven't, you know, God, let's edit that out. So, it was a technique that I learned when I was studying classical music. When I was playing classical music, which is you to memorize It backwards.
Essentially, if it's a poem talked about this because that's how I memorize Shakespeare. Wait because you said that you did it. Yeah. So you memorize the last line. So you don't memorize it word for word backwards, although I totally suppose, you could see memorize the last line which is like, yeah, I don't want to qualify and safe easy but it's easier than memorizing whole fucking thing, that's for sure. So memorize the last client like
over and over again. Announcing your place in the family of things, or perhaps make it even smaller just like the family of things. Place in the family of things announcing your place. And that way, you're always moving into something that you're more confident.
Because if you've ever tried to memorize something, you'll remember, if you tack on another line, like your block memorized and you tack on the next line, you have to start the beginnings and go and then by the time you get there, it's been like a while since you thought of that because it's at the end whereas if you go backwards the newest line is the first thing that you say. And then everything, after that
you already have memorized. And so it's, you know, over and over again, announcing your place in the family of sayings like harsh and exciting over and over again. Like you're so you're always moves the worst explanation of anything ever, feel like you're always moving into something. You're more confident with. And so saying, the new thing is just the thing that you say first, like so, But what sorry I didn't mean to cut you off when you when you're doing that for
music though. Do you go by like a measure or a phrase or know? It's like, how do you do it with music? I would do it. It's a mean. It depends. I there are certain circumstances in which I would do it. Either by note or by measure. Yeah. So like if it was a really note heavy piece, that had like a lot of notes in it. Then I would go. Absolutely go. No but I know but if it's a really well actually no. Now that I think of it I always went no but I know.
Yeah because doing it with music is Like, if you're memorizing a poem. It is very, very likely that you're already fluent in a language. So saying things is something that you know how to do. So you're just saying specific things, whereas in music very frequently, your plant, you're doing a thing that you haven't done before and so if you have my guitars over there, Akio guitar I apply on your arm like a fret.
Oh, yeah. Well, that's how you would that's like the common way of like describing And stuff. But that's what a teacher would do. If they were, if you didn't have a guitar around in you, revealing all the burns I have on my own, I'm a cook, it's okay. But yeah. So if you had a weird core of like, that was like uh, and just felt strange. Like, first of all, I would do
is play the chord and then relax my hand. and then play the chord again when left hand, and then I would play the chord or note, or whatever, just before that, and go, boom, and just sit there and the idea well-known we talked about music, but the idea is that You would, let's say you had to go from. Should I grab my guitar? Now, I'm not gonna mind if I can see it in the mirror. There's three to get the blue. One is the prettiest. There's not a blue and it's black. Let's not do this.
Oh, that's cool. So if you're to play, What's the court? All right, let's edit this out. So anyway, here's wunderwaffe plays, here's Wonderwall. But so if you're playing this chord which also I have something to say about this court but and you had to play it from here. So the way that you would practice that the way that I would practice that is by playing that note before it. Oh my gosh. Eric, it's been a decade. Come on. And then walk, before I've done anything.
I'm going to go through my head. And pretend to do it in. Imagine the weight of my hand as I pull my hand away from the fretboard. And imagine what it's going to feel like to have the pressure released in my pinky. And imagine the amount of time. It's going to take me imagines. The specific muscles that I'm going to flex when I do it. and then, once all of that is in place, I just allow my brain to say go. And do it. I swear, this is absolutely true.
I was taught in the a lot of classical musicians are taught and then you do that again. And you sit there and you think what is it going to feel like what is the weight of my hand going to fill it? What is everything? And then you just allowing yourself to do it in the idea behind that is well, yeah, but you behind that. Is that every time you do something, you're making your brain. Remember, it's now another thing
that your brain has done. So if you practice something and consistently get one part wrong, it's actively bad to do it wrong, like it is actively, but it's not just another time. You're training your brain to do it incorrectly, so it's better to do whatever you have to do to do it. Exactly correctly and only exactly correctly ever. So that your strengthening, those neural connections, and all of that, and not the ones that are wrong. So like a sort of a joke, I don't think, I don't know.
This is a common joke, but it was a joke between me and my friends. Like, if you have a problem with a section, like you've been practicing all week and you go to your professor, or your, your, your teacher, something and you say, like, I don't know how I can't quite get this one
thing. At some point they're going to say slow practice to a metronome like practice really, really, really slowly to a metronome and idea is that like even if something is really hard, if you do it slow enough you'll be able to do it. It might take you like but doing it wrong is actively bad. You're training your brain to do it incorrectly and so do it as slow as you possibly need. You need to do it in order to do it properly and then only do
that. And then once You can do that without thinking about it, increase the speed just a little bit and then do that until you can do that, without even thinking about it, and then in a little bit more and then a little bit more, a little bit more until eventually you're at full Tempo, I am actively fascinated right now. Like act like genuinely fascinated, like I don't have that. Like, I don't, I can't do that.
Like, I, I I don't even know how to describe it but like, I don't have the capacity to imagine my body doing things like that's not a thing that I think about I am like I'm so like it feels like I mean I would say it's like learning Klingon except I've done that like it but it's so far like out of the surprise. I'm just, I'm so vast it, I'm fascinated by this, what's really? It's it's also for one, you can imagine that if you have severe ADHD, that that whole process is
a fucking problem. If I was in, will you can imagine that my inability to do that or how difficult it was for me to do that or replicas or do whatever version of that? I was capable of doing can scar a person musically to be? Like. Oh this is what? How I understand music to work and I'm incapable of doing it. Like I'm like I'm wrong in terms of music.
I mean of course I'm wrong to think that like that's I've been but you know the best decade of my life or eight years of my life has been me. Hopefully like, you know, training myself out of thinking that there is a exact proper way to play music and in a bit, you know, and if you're not doing that and you're wrong, But see your ADHD hit the pole hoof.
That's kind of like when Aaron asked us the about ADHD and music like I was like, oh God, like I'm going to talk for a long time or I'm not going to talk at all. Holy shit. But it's very, I mean, it makes me think of mindfulness is what makes me think of is when you're in that mode and you're trying to practice like a thing, like there's there's a piece that goes like this again, it's been
eight years. so basically goes to diminish, its diminished chord, if it's either, I think it's half the half diminished chord to the people who can use which resolves to this chord, which You can then turn into a diminished chord like this or anyways, but those those chords are the same. All the way down.
It just but it, but it sort of musically mathematically, Works God. But I had to do it that fast actually was faster than it was bad, but that, that, that that and so I spent a very long time and it made a small concrete room, every practice room had a mirror in. It was exactly that mere accident, I think of it. So you can sit in front of it and watch your meek and that was it. Well, they all had pianos to. So there's a piano in a mirror and it's in a chair.
But anyway, so yeah, I had to practice going from Discord and then During it as slowly as possible and as deliberately and methodically as possible again, like anticipating every motion like nothing was accidental because that's how you fuck up. That's how like, if you hear about musician, who consistently messes up the same part. It's because they've messed it up so many times that that's just how their brain does it. They're not training themselves
from zero anymore. Zero to correct their training themselves from incorrect to correct. So the idea is not just to learn the peace. Although, of course, that's the goal its to avoid learning it the wrong way because then you've lost ground. So anyways. But well, the reason I think of mindfulness is because when you're here and you're going to the next chord, You become in tune with your body. You the sensations in your fingers, up it up. But uh, And then you go to the next one.
So it's like an inherently, a mindful process of just being in tune with doing exactly one thing. And anyways, it's fucking fascinating and nuts, but it, you know, it caused me to you know think of I think people with ADHD think of analogies frequently, I think that's like something that we do. I mean, I've I mean to speak for
anybody else ever? I guess, but I, I've talked to enough people where I think we do, but that concept, the concept of practice has become useful in a lot of different ways. It's also become a massive hindrance, my awareness of that level of practice. But like, I mean every week or most weeks, you know, you basically would have a lesson a week and then you have a whole Oh, that's why at this boarding school that I went to? You would have a less than a week and then a bunch of others.
You have classes, you would have three classes, you would have performance classes, and whatever classes. As well as regular Chi School classes to deal with fifth. But anyways and then you would go and you know and then you would have your lesson again in the cycle sort of repeat and print like a lot of the times you go to a new lesson and your teacher would ask you to do something that you can swear is
impossible, they would go here. You know, reach your Your fingers from like here to like there and you're like, oh, I can't like in your, and you like your brain. You're like, my fingers are too small, my like I can't and you're like, you're, it's you rationally think that it's not an irrational thoughts, as you can, and then they go, we'll look my hands are smaller than yours and I can do it and then they do the thing and so you're like oh it is possible,
stretching your fingers. Maybe isn't the best example because that's sort of a literal technical feat.
Like but like going from some insanely complicated chord to another insanely complicated, chord like that, there's no way that I could do this at that at the speed of this but then they do it in front of you and so they show you something impossible and say you have a week to learn to do it and then you do, or you look like a giant asshole in a week and so you're sort of consistently reaffirming that you think a lot of things are impossible that Actually, through deliberate practice or
not impossible. And so it calls into question, like, what you think, what why don't we say you will, what I what I what one thinks what I thought about like everything, what other things do I think are impossible that I actually could do if I just practiced and learned and so, like my idea area. The idea my idea of self shattered like show absolutely fucking shattered because what if my ADHD is just something that I could practice myself
out? Of what if, what if my depression is something that I could practice myself out of right now at that seems impossible. It it like it right now. Being this is me at 16 thinking this like that is unfathomable that that could be the case. But my everyday life consists of truly, believing something to be impossible, then watching somebody do it and then prove to myself that I can through practice, do it. So what are you know, what are the things?
And so I mean that idea is still absolutely haunts me to this day. Like I don't I it for a long time and still now like I can't fully accept that. I just am away like that. I am Eric that I am like myself. I constantly think of myself as a person who has practiced perhaps unknowingly a certain set of behaviors and therefore exhibits those behaviors frequently. But if I practiced if I like practiced, if I did the analogous thing to playing classical music to my psyche.
In my behaviors, I could do things that I think are impossible like training myself, out of my depression or practicing myself out of my ADHD and to a certain extent. I mean you can't train her practice will sell out of ADHD their neural imbalance as well. As far as I know and as far as everybody that I've ever heard, who knows? About this knows you can't but things like Waking up in the morning like assembling habits things like waking up in the
morning. You're taking her meds every day or the things that often especially when you're depressed. Seem absolutely impossible, but through practice, you can't. And so so. So I got to stop talking. I've been talking to like fight in 20 minutes. I don't know, time blindness. I've no idea how long I've been talking but so it's very helpful in ways that sort of teach you to think. Oh, the things that you think are impossible.
Aren't. But there are also things that are impossible and you need to accept that they are. I mean, it makes me think of the Lord's Prayer, grant me the serenity to accept the things. I cannot change the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to tell the difference except what grant me the serenity to accept the things.
I cannot change the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to sell the difference that are not the Lord's Prayer. Oh, that isn't the Lord's Prayer. The Serenity Prayer. Gosh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm pretty, like, I don't know a lot about a lot, but I don't think that's one of the lines, leave it in leave. It is Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day this year and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us, not to Temptation, which is the Kingdom of Heaven for No, Father who art in heaven? Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread. Oh God, I got so distracted in the middle of it, but I forgot it. But it's a, I was acting so smug to another. How does it feel hoisted on my
own petard? But Deliver Us from Evil. That's the line. It said that, as long as the rents, That's from Evil. And then depending on what church, you go to, they tack on the for thine is the power and the kingdom thing, but you're Catholic growing up. We didn't we didn't have that part. So really just ends at Deliver Us from Evil, amen.
Yeah. And then sometimes you Mumble, the last part of thing, but and then I think I think they just changed the words to there was like a it's like, as we forgive those who like there's new Words, I'm pretty sure. My mom told me about this Yeah, the only one I know is the one that they say at the end of. Yeah, it's instead of saying lead us not into temptation, they say, do not let us fall
into temptation. Why, I mean, okay, thanks changed it because the pope said he thought the English translation of the prayer was not correct because our boy Francis who we like we like Francis. It is not a good translation because it speaks of a god Who induces temptation but we are the one who fall it's not God like pushing us into temptation as we falling into temptation so they changed it to let us not fall into temptation. Well I respect I respect an accurate translation.
That's that's why I respect that. Yeah, yeah, and her father doesn't do that after the quote is a father doesn't do that at father helps you to get up immediately. It's Satan who leads us into temptation. That's his department. Is that really What Pope Francis said, that's what he said. I imagine it's a translation of from latter. From from Italian. Maybe I don't know that Katie Derek in the morning. That's our morning.
Good morning. I just, I truly think that Donald Glover is one of the great Geniuses. Like, oh, yeah, absolutely. As I was literally about to say, the same thing, I was literally just about to be like, Donald Glover is so great. Like I think we're like, I'm grateful. Be alive at the same time. Like like if you if like I like to think that the people who like were alive at the same time as Mozart we're like how cool is
it that we rely know? They weren't because if they weren't but like I feel like it's that kind of thing where like he's going to be. He's one of those towering artistic genius, has my favorite thing. My favorite story about Donald Glover? I don't even know if it's true or not, but I heard it the story that I heard was like, so he was working on On on being being Lando, when he was, he released, this is America.
And so he was like, they were standing like underneath the fucking Millennium Falcon, and I'll go over goes, hey, do you guys do? I just got my like, the the editing copy back or whatever. Do you guys want to see my new? My new song that's coming out and everybody was like yeah. And so he just like played it for him like on his fucking iPhone or whatever. And everyone was like You what he's like, yeah. It's my day.
It's my new song. And they like, we're like Play it Again. Play it again, and they made him play it like a. Like, because everyone was like, this is the best thing because it was, this is America. Yeah. And this is the best thing that I have ever beheld, and he was just like standing under the Millennium Falcon just like, hey, watch my new song. My name is like, like, I don't know if it's true or not, but I just think about that moment a lot. What a moment in a person's life.
Like to tell to tell like, I don't know, like a Five year old Donald Glover like hey one day, you're going to be playing. Lando Calrissian in a cannon in a Canon Star Wars movie. It was Cannon, right? Yeah. Canon Star Wars movie and you're going to have everybody gather around and you're going to play them a song that you just had produced. That is going to be one of the most influential songs written like in its decade and you're going to be like 20 fucking 7 or something like that.
Then thing, what the fuck? It's I think a lat, I think like I spent a lot of time thinking about how I will probably never get to be in a Star Wars movie and I realized that's, that's a silly thing to be sad about. But there is there's a large part of my heart that I've reserved for the grief that I feel about the fact that I will never be famous enough to be in a Star Wars movie, which is, which is silly. But it's the, it's what I feel you want.
It's not silly. I think, I think life can be Be a hard dismal thing and the little things that like, give us to it, like, it's okay to mourn for that. But also like, I feel like, obligated to say that you absolutely do not have the data to say that you will never be an Australian like that is massive assumption. Yeah. The, the chaos of the world makes means it's possible. It's like an, it was a very
impassioned speech. It was oh, it was, it was, it was discursive in, was it was like, there's a level of discursivity that all allow in my rants, but at some point it's like, okay, this rain is missing. Discursive will have you ever played and another thing Nope.
So and another thing, it's drinking game that my friends and I like to play and I think something like Tumblr, came up with it or something, but basically what it is is, it's a drinking game where you just decide to rant about something
just you know, socks. Okay. And so basically what it is, is somebody starts ranting and they're like, you know, the problem with socks these days is the socks isn't good enough and they're not warm enough and is but whatever and then any point somebody else goes and another thing and then they start ranting and then but then
everybody else takes a drink. And so it's basically just like kite is, like, half an improv game, have a drinking game, but the idea is just like you just keep ranting about socks and you can steal it from anybody, I'm going. And another thing, can you have to maintain the the initials of, like, if the subject is socks, you all have different about socks or can you tangent off what the person you can?
I It really doesn't matter, but usually, we would tangent but it's also the basis of my board game. Your board game. Oh god, I've never told you this story. Okay, I also have a, but what's a card game? But this is a whole week is invented by invented. A game is exist. It does exist in by it, can buy it, fucking wait. Wait, can you wait? Let's do this later. Okay, does this is I am so fucking excited and I think I just I want to I want to be known Learning about this for
the first time. Okay, yeah, gosh. I also I've been tentatively designing a card game in my head before. Well I mean I also have a blank pages and Pages. Maybe if it were to be made, well, it would be successful. I'm is mine exists in the real world. You don't tell me. What is the name of your board? It's, this is something. If it's like, Settlers of Catan. I'm gonna lose my fucking mind.
What if it's? No, it's not, it's called on betrayal it. House on the hill, it's not, it's not called that that's like my always shit. I thought you were going to react. No cold Monopoly. No, I cannot go to tell you because it's a punch line. It's part of the story is the punt is the name of the game. So I'm not going to tell it to, I'm saving it because yeah. So, but I'll tell you, You later. Now you're an opera singer, too. Wasn't me and I was being jealous of your skill sets.
I'm a terrible singer. Oh yeah. Give me a. Give me an e to, I don't know. Play it for me. Oh, thank you.