Chords for Steve Vai "How to be Successful" Private Sessions Guitar Center

[A] _ [E] Are we actually recording?
Is the red light on?
Is Buenos Aires going to enter into immortality?
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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 [E] going 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.
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[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
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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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_ 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] 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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you've got to put the work in.
[A] It's no work.
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There's no work involved.
Because it's all a joy.
Because you know you're reaching your goal.
You hear what I'm saying?
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] had to, you know, I've been through a lot.
But when [E] it came to my feelings [A] about what I do, [E] and my success so to speak,
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.
And 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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