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Welcome to Season 2 of Guitar Villains! Today's guest is the incomparable Steve Vai.
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0:00 Introduction
2:37 Settling the score on Steve’s “JointShifting” technique
12:36 Steve’s greatest guitar solo
17:30 Steve’s supervillain alterego
19:55 Burning Questions
21:21 Name Those Notes
22:56 The importance of finger tone
27:00 Steve’s most technically difficult song to play
31:42 Music theory versus following your ear
40:24 Steve made me a very special promise
44:06 Playing Bohemian Rhapsody perfectly with Generation Axe
49:17 Steve is teaching music on a giant ship
52:34 The most important advice I took from Steve
1:03:55 Steve wrote a song with one hand
1:06:40 Steve had hand surgery because of a crazy guitar chord
1:10:42 Steve’s supervillain advice

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