Cris Cohen: The other aspect is that both you and Eddie Van Halen obviously have the chops and play some very intense material. And yet “Song For Hope” is so… tender. It's sweet. And so to me, it's fascinating when someone, who can go 90 miles an hour, specifically pulls back. There's still that intention and emotion to it, but it's at a much slower pace. How long does it take to really learn how to do that?
Nili Brosh: What's really interesting about that, at least in my development or however you want to call it, is that it's easier for me to compose these, but harder to play in a lot of ways. Because to really emote the way that I hear it in my head, or the way that I think it should be played, is a much more challenging thing to do on the guitar than to shred. Or at least to me.
And it's not necessarily playing slowly, although that can be challenging too. But just learning how to pace, especially a solo guitar tune. You have to really be clear about the composition for it to convey, because you don't have anything else to go on. There are no transitions anywhere else. You don't have a drum fill to indicate that the next section is coming. You have to really be the storyteller on that. So just producing it and playing it emotively is the thing that I think actually takes me the longest.
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