00:00The thing about it is it's theory. It's not law. That's what I always like to tell people.
00:04It's like, it's not like there's, it's there for a reason, but you don't have to listen to it.
00:08At one Petrucci camp, Al D'Amiolo was there. I mean, this is the most blunt and straightforward way,
00:13best way I've heard it put. He said, learn as much theory as you possibly can, and then forget all
00:18of it.
00:18I made that disconnect for myself like years ago, when I was still in Borne of Osiris,
00:22and we were working on the Discovery, and I found out like some of my favorite guitar players at the
00:26time,
00:26or I'm not going to name any names, but there was some people that I was like,
00:31you have, sounds like they have to know everything about theory,
00:33and then you find out they actually don't really know much at all.
00:37They're just playing what sounds good.
00:39So that's when I first had that like moment where, because I was obsessed with music theory,
00:44everything had to be, you know, in this box, and I was like, wait a sec.
00:48What? No, just like, if it sounds good, it sounds good.
00:51Now I just worry about what's called later when I have to transcribe it and sell it.
00:56Just like that.
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