Ping Pinheiro – I’m still getting better at this, I’m getting better at the rhythm. And the tempo. The rhythm was very important. Now, if you can go on it. You can find anything.

E: But that can’t be the reason for you not being good. I’m not blaming it on anyone specifically.

P: I’m not saying that not being good is not important. It doesn’t have to be or not being very good or not being good and then to just find the thing that works for that.

E: But to me, what makes you a different person than someone who is good?

P: Well in my head, in my brain it feels like it’s the other person, like, because you know your rhythm. Your beats will come. You know how it plays, you know how it moves from one note to the next, you know just like how it feels. But in my real life, my brain is just not that good yet. Like, I’ll have like a beat as a bass that’s not so good because I am not used to it. But it feels so good. And when I play it, I know it is something that I don’t care to mess with. I was never a problem-solver when I was playing or I even when I was thinking about it, before. But when I play it for the audience that gives me something. And that’s good.

E: But it’s still the same that you want to do it right?

P: Yeah. Maybe even more so.

E: Did you take lessons from someone before you came onto the game?

P: No. I didn’t take lessons, but I could take notes for a long time. Like before, I remember that. Before I even was in New York. Before I even went there. But before that, my family was really close. My sister had a studio, my brothers were the musicians of the group. My parents helped us play together and I saw a lot of my older brother as a musician growing up. So you look at where my brain was when it was younger and I was a kid or when I was in the studio. It was like a really, really old brain. And I was a really, really creative kid, like that.

I had to find the way of thinking to work in a studio.