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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin cover image

John Mayer

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

CHAPTER

The Importance of Improvisation

"There's a disconnect in my brain between my looking at an instrument and going, you can do anything on that," he says. "I still look at it like anything's possible on it... And I just cancel out the fact that I can't do it." His parents weren't very sentimental about their possessions but they did give him his first guitar when he was 10 years old. He used potato chip chips to create reverb for his acoustic guitars.

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