A young guitarist meets his hero | Usman Riaz and Preston Reed

Translator: Morton Bast Reviewer: Thu-Huong Ha

翻译人员: Dennis Guo 校对人员: Ricki Xie

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Chris Anderson: You guys were amazing.

Chris Anderson: 你们太棒了。

That's amazing.

真的太棒了。

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You just don't hear that every day.

这真不是每天都能听到的音乐。

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Usman, the official story is that

Usman，官方的故事是

you learned to play the guitar

你通过 YouTube 上吉米·佩奇的表演视频

by watching Jimmy Page on YouTube.

学会的吉他。

Usman Riaz: Yes, that was the first one. And then I --

Usman Riaz: 是的，那是第一首。

That was the first thing I learned,

那是我学的第一首，

and then I started progressing to other things.

然后我便开始学习其他的曲目。

And I started watching Kaki King a lot,

然后我开始看很多 Kaki King 的表演，

and she would always cite Preston Reed as a big influence,

她总说 Preston Reed 对她的影响很大，

so then I started watching his videos,

然后我便开始看他的录像，

and it's very surreal right now to be --

所以我现在有在做梦的感觉 --

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CA: Was that piece just now,

CA: 刚刚你弹奏的曲子，

that was one of his songs that you learned, or how did that happen?

是你之前学过的他的曲子中的一首吗？

UR: I'd never learned it before,

UR: 我之前不会弹这首曲子

but he told me that we would be playing that on stage,

但他告诉我我们将会在台上合奏，

so I was familiar with it, so that's why I had so much more fun learning it.

由于我对这首曲子很熟悉，所以我很享受练习的过程。

And it finally happened, so ...

当这终于成为了现实时...

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CA: Preston, from your point of view,

CA: Preston，在你看来，

I mean, you invented this like 20 years ago, right?

你在20年前发明了这种（指弹吉他） 技法，对吧？

How does it feel to see someone like this

当你看到像他一样的人

come along taking your art and doing so much with it?

将你的技巧衍化出更多的艺术，你有什么感想？

Preston Reed: It's mind-blowing,

Preston Reed: 这让我很兴奋，

and I feel really proud, really honored.

我也觉得非常的自豪和荣幸。

And he's a wonderful musician, so it's cool.

而他也是个很出色的音乐家，感觉很给力啊。

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CA: I guess, I don't think there is like a one-minute other piece you guys can do?

CA: 你们还有一分钟左右的曲子可以演奏吗？

Can you? Do you jam? Do you have anything else?

可以吗？有其他的曲子吗？

PR: We haven't prepared anything.

PR: 我们没有准备其他的。

CA: There isn't. I'll tell you what.

CA: 没有了吗。不然这样，

If you have another 30 or 40 seconds,

如果你有多余的30到40秒，

and you have another 30 or 40 seconds,

而你的确有这多余的30到40秒，

and we just see that, I just think --

就我们刚刚看到的，我想 --

I can feel it. We want to hear a little more.

我觉得，大家想再听一些。

And if it goes horribly wrong, no worries.

大不用担心如果它走了调或者什么的。

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