Well Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
I had to learn how to chop wood actually – I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
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I liked a lot of the things other people liked – Jimi Hendrix The Beatles Van Halen AC/DC – but if I compared it to my dad's music there just seemed to be elements missing.
