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Most Western music—and a lot of non-Western music, too—is rhythmically organized into groups of two, three or four beats each. You get one strong beat and a couple of weaker ones to follow it and your body understands intuitively how to respond. Start messing with fives and sevens and elevens and so forth and you’re into trickier territory. The gravitational simplicity of the smaller numbers is so strong that five is easily pulled into three and two; seven into four and three. You’re constantly switching between two different possibilities for the way the music could feel, like a room whose color quietly shifts each time you walk in anew. It can be difficult to get into a flow, because it keeps getting interrupted as soon as it begins.

True to Vai form, this Passion & Warfare edition of Alien Guitar Secrets goes way beyond the call of educational and inspirational duty for any student of guitar, at any level of play. In the first half of this interactive video masterclass, three-time GRAMMY Award winner Steve Vai shares priceless insight and ingenious methods to help you discover and unlock your personal musical identity – the very same approaches he used to achieve his own mastery of the instrument and unparalleled success as a professional musician.