Chords for Steve Vai: Guitar Center Sessions - How to be Successful

[A] _ [E] Are we actually recording?
Is the red light on?
Is Buenos Aires going to enter into immortality?
Yeah.
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[E] _ Yeah. _ Yeah.
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There's [F#] three things [E] usually that I find are most, you know, the burning questions that
most people have, young musicians, is, you know, one is, how do I make it in this business?
How do I make a record, get it out there, and, you know, get people to hear it and become
successful?
I [B] think the first thing is that we need to identify [E] with what it is that we
really want. _
Because whatever it is you really [A] want, that's what's going to come [E] out.
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_ _ _ The
thing that you're [F#] most comfortable with, that you do the best, [Bm] because that's what you're
going [E] to do the best.
You know, like me, [A] I've got strengths and I've got weaknesses.
[E] _ I don't
work on my weaknesses.
I ignore them and I [A] cultivate my strengths.
[E] The level of achievement
that we have at anything is a reflection of how well we were able to focus on it.
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Because
the [E] only thing that's holding [A] you back [E] is the way you're thinking.
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ Pick [B] a song in your head that [A] you'd like to be able to play, [E] something that's within
[F#m] your reach.
[D] Imagine [C#] [B] right now that song.
[E] Picture yourself playing it.
_ [A] That's the first [E] part
of the [F#m] exercise in achieving it.
[G#] Now, as [E] you're picturing yourself playing it, imagine [A] what
it sounds like.
Perfect.
_ [E] See and hear yourself playing [A] it elegantly, [E] beautifully, whether
[A] it's an aggressive metal [E] track, whatever it is, [B] but see yourself playing it from beginning
to [E] end perfectly, with [A] confidence.
[E] The more you're [F#m] able to crystallize that [B] vision, [E] the
more you're going to become a [A] self-fulfilled prophet.
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_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ Let's [B] talk about practice.
Let's talk about spending [E] time to reach your goal.
Because
I know the complaint.
_ [G] We have obligations in life, we have [A] responsibilities, we have
so many other things we have to do.
[Bm] How do we find [B] time to play the instrument?
I [E] recommend
that you pick a time that's yours.
A time where you shut off the cell [A] phone, shut off
[E] the telephone, turn off [A] the internet, [E] and [B] sit and focus on your goal.
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_ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _
_ Whenever you get
[A] discouraged, go to [E] the big picture.
Go back to that [A] place of excitement.
_ That's how you
[E] get through it.
You go to the big [A] picture.
You go to the chief aim.
[E] Because it's so crystallized
in your head that [A] when you know, when you feel [E] like, I can't do this, you go back to
that [A] picture and you [E] can see yourself doing it.
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Now you've got to put the work in.
[A] It's no work.
_ [E]
There's no work involved.
Because it's
all a joy.
Because you know you're reaching your goal.
I never worked a day in my life
in this business.
I mean, with the guitar.
I never [F#] struggled.
Honestly, [E] I've had a lot
of challenges.
I've [A] been through a lot.
But when [E] it came to my feelings [A] about what I do
[E] and my success, so to speak, I never struggled a day [A] in my life.
[E] Because for me, playing
the guitar was my juice. _ _ _ _ _
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So you break it down piece by piece by piece.
If it's a classical song, say, you go one
bar at a time, then you go to the next bar, and you go to the next bar.
Eventually you'll
be able to play through this piece of music.
You won't play it great, but you'll be able
to play through it.
That's when you've got to stick at it, stick at it, and keep playing
it.
Because at first it's getting your fingers in shape.
It's getting all that.
But then,
once you own this piece of music, _ then it flows.
Then it's like this whole other thing
comes over you.
It's this ability to become the music. _ _
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