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So I want you to picture this scene. And there's this 10 -year -old girl wandering around a dusty pawn shop in mineral wells. like a blistering hot small town in West Texas. So she's just killing time, you know, kicking at the floorboards while her dad is up at the counter haggling over some hunting gear.

It features heavily syncopated rhythms, sophisticated jazz chords, and you have to be able to improvise blistering solos on the fly. Because joining a band of that caliber at 15. It's like a high school basketball player getting drafted to play with the 90's Chicago Bulls.

• If he puts the money down, she has to learn it
• Shires didn't just learn to play an instrument
• She systematically dismantled and rebuilt her artistic identity at every single stage of her career
• You have to learn to read the room, figure out exactly where your instrument fits into the sonic frequency, and make the main act sound good