“No one wants to see you do that”: Joe Satriani says guitarists shouldn’t waste years “trying to get to 224 beats per minute on the metronome”
The virtuoso argues that understanding why music works is far more valuable than squeezing a few extra beats per minute out of your picking hand. The post “No one wants to see you do that”: Joe…
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