 think tech away civil engagement lives here that's Lenora mollison she's a special guest here today on community matters and she is a prodigy we've had her before in March of 2017 where Ian Davidson interviewed her on think tech on the go I think it was and she's taller and smarter and even better today you're later you're more later so that was one song okay and I like to ask you what the name of that song was that was eruption by Eddie Van Halen I wish I wrote that I'd be so sure that that song is the best I so fine I'm gonna have more songs what other songs are we gonna have today well we're gonna be having the Steve Harvey look that I played on his show we're also gonna be having an original by me called has a boom it's about a kid that thinks he's a like nerd outside this his mind but inside he's really the hero and then lastly I'm gonna be playing some Metallica before horsemen okay wow so I want to know more about you I know that you're a student in what late junior high school at Myron L Thompson Academy which is right down the block I know you study or rather practice two hours a day every day yeah I know if I did that I could play like you right yes sure thank you and you've been playing for what most of your life now huh yeah seven years now I started when I was six hopefully I can play until I retire well that not whenever that might get a long way to go don't rush it yeah and and you're you're playing what kind of music we know a little already but could you define your genre my genre consists of original shredding fast songs you know like event sevenfold Metallica of course Eddie Van Halen that basically the top shredders sinister gates as well you know those people is that is that why they call you the Lenore the shredder yes that is correct okay could you help me cuz I'm really out of this and I think you're talking about what is a shredder exactly a shredder is when you play very fast single notes or whole notes depending on what type of shredding you like well not shredding playing chords and playing shredding is different shredding is more fast tempo and playing chords is like slower blues is more typical playing chords and shredding is more like double double fast like I saw that yeah that's not easy I mean you have to have a certain amount of virtuosity yes move that fast but they also call you the ghost girl of underage thinking I suppose that's different from underage drinking okay yeah what is the ghost ghost girl of underage thinking what is that why do they call you that back then I used to do auditions for TV and movie there was a show called the river on ABC it's canceled now which is sad I know why they canceled it they cancel all the best shows yeah that's true yeah I played a dead Victorian girl who drowned her victims because she's searching for her mother I tried to drown a lot of people oh I don't I don't think you're like that at all actually little my character does did you have to just have to go to the Los Angeles or something good to make the movie oh no it was here stationed in Hawaii it was out and down west side I think oh no kidding right so you have experience on the screen then you want more of that yes okay all right so what's the connection between the ghost girl and the music I just figured it work I mean I I kill myself because I'm super fast my hand follows off because I'm super super fast yeah not to brag no I don't want to brag but how did that happen how did you get super fast I mean you know people aren't necessarily born that way are they but you had to go through some kind of training and familiarity process way you got comfortable enough to get that fast right tell us about it there's something called endurance drills that you do every single day and you use a metronome to to pace yourself so you play chords like I said before to the metronome and it speeds up more and more until you are able to play really really you just turn it a higher a higher tempo and you have to keep up with it mm-hmm yeah and you have like five minutes a day or you increase your speed and time then yeah that's that's how you go yeah like wind sprints it's really rushing yeah so what are you studying in school in the Myron Myron L Thompson Academy down the block I am studying math I'm doing computer literacy I'm doing slope and graphs I'm also doing science and I'm learning about sharks more specifically what's inside the shark doing well yeah I'd say I am considering only got one C so that's good okay we don't talk about that we're gonna talk about that yeah what was the C in English okay everything else you're doing well yes that's great what about music is music in the program I it is in the program but not the type of music I like typically enjoy you know when I want to learn something I go to the web I go to YouTube I look it up I watch other people do it and when I really want to learn something I get a teacher and the teachers one-on-one with me the teacher is my mentor my teacher and in music when I was a kid I had a little music nothing like you have but and I had a teacher and he would come and see me and we would show me stuff you have what do you do to learn this stuff what do you what do you do on the web for example what do you do in terms of personal mentor coach counselor person I actually have two teachers Tommy Osuna and I have Aaron Kerry who is in charge of Kyla in the sixth school where I play with my band mate Noah for the web I look up solos and then I just try a piece of mountain then I take them to Tommy and he really helps me put some more technique into them what is technique I mean for you technique for me is putting more flair into it like putting more bends more flourish more more pacing like I said before for more technique give us an example of flair or flourish one thing is like like that yeah impressive yeah thank you so you have to but you have to listen to you know you have to be mainstream you are mainstream no question about it you're following what's going on out there I wish I could say the same for myself but how do you do that how do you follow what's going on how do you follow what other musicians are doing how do you get to the center of the track a typically go well I look at the top charts like the top 10 man's and all those YouTube videos like hey maybe I could do that and then I look up one of their solos and then those it's rinse repeat and swash yeah okay so do you play along with them no you just listen oh I do try and play along with them and if I really keep at it I might be able to try and do the backing track and then play along with the drum beat okay okay now what about what about other instruments at the same time do you at home when you practice for those two plus hours a day are you playing with a recording of somebody else playing are you playing with another musician do you have a group that you play with how do you sort of bounce off other musicians I do play with other people were underage thinking our band for the backing tracks and for the other instruments I do try and play along with other people on the web but it's usually recordings like on YouTube sometimes Facebook if they put it out so if I'm if I'm you and I go on YouTube and I want to see something that appeals to me as a learning experience what do I search for guitar chords top easy for the beginner no or like top 10 best solos and bands and how to play this specific solo so you're looking for excellence yes how I mean that's really important you decided you wanted to be excellent you wanted to be a virtuoso you why why is that what what happened to you that made you feel that you had to do that well for one parents yeah I started out because my parents had a role you have to pick one instrument for a year and if you want to continue doing it then we'll pay for it we'll do whatever you want and I chose guitar yeah trying to get a like right step in the direction so I picked guitar and then I discovered shredding a couple years ago and I was like giving a close up of that one more time so you know I told you I was going to ask you how has it been since March of 2017 a year and some months ago for you and how have you changed how has your world you changed if you could talk about that and how has your music and your learning music changed in that last year I have been going to more shows with my band underage thinking we've had a very good streak so far last year we played at the kidney foundation for walking the wild side we've also have been playing down in Kailua for the habilitat which plays a special heart like place in my heart because I was actually the first gig we played there like first actual full on gig and then for me I've been playing at the MMA events like down in Honolulu like by the park over there yeah what's that you go with the band and sometimes alone sometimes with the band yeah sometimes with that how many people are there for okay yeah and I use a leader yeah okay all right good good I want you to tell me all right so we have a couple of minutes before our break here in the show and I wonder if you could play song number two this is actually the look I played on the Steve Harvey show so get ready okay I'm ready we're gonna take one minute to recover from that it will come back and you play still another tune for us yes be right back here on think tech all around the city they tell me they're making music so I do it want to see how big it is it's a little smaller than mine but you reach right around that you got it all so Lenore um that's the kind of song you play in a gig yes how long is a gig where is a gig the average we typically play is at bars restaurants um sometimes we'll play at a festival um all over all over why basically are you are you recording also a recording in music we are in the progress of recording some of our music really so far we've got one song down okay you're making an album is that it yes oh wow okay we're trying to trying to okay well when will we know when when can we find out not yet not you'll come back on this show play some more songs yes and then you'll tell us so I guess so what I wanted to ask you about in this part is you know where this fits in your life because obviously your progeny project you a prodigy and you're a virtuoso and it's only going to get better even with small hands like that they'll get bigger and so I guess the question I would ask is so where where does it go for you you're studying something in school it's not the same thing and you may do that veterinary medicine was it that was your other goal yeah yeah go ahead I'm hoping that this can become a backup plan just in case if for some reason veterinary school doesn't work out it's gonna be long and hard I'm hoping that I could actually use guitar to try and open up a place a veterinary place and then me work as the head doctor a head surgeon you mean music yeah yeah in the veterinary yeah you know I there was a movie not too long ago about a camel in Mongolia and the camel was albino it was a baby camel and the mother didn't like that because it was unusual so the mother wouldn't let the baby camel nurse and the baby camel was wasting away okay and they tried so hard to keep the baby camel alive and ultimately they found a secret in this wonderful movie and the secret was guess music and it somehow gave comfort to the mother and the child camel and then they bonded up and the child survived all about music so there's a relationship between animals and music don't you think yeah that'll be a really interesting veterinary clinic you open I think so if you had your druthers would you pick the one or the other or the Bose where does the music fit if you had your you know your druthers on this music would fit I'd make my own hours and music would fit like in the morning and then at night and then maybe along the way I could host like an animal festival and then I could play there is like hey I was to play guitar so is it a career for you you think you think it might be yeah it could I think it could definitely be a career and how do you see it unfolding I mean you're you're not even in high school yet there's a lot there's a long way to go I can tell you I I sat in my in my class and in New York where I grew up in junior high school us Simon was over there and Garfunkel was over there and I knew them both and who would ever have thunk that they were going to be what they became to be and it was because they kept on doing it is what they kept on working together because you you learn a lot you learn about your own music and make it better so I mean is that the kind of plan you have that you can keep on doing this until you get so good that it becomes you know a career yeah I really really hope that guitar really works out with me because it plays a big part in my life I've been doing it for seven years so took it away it's kind of like taking something out of a heart or something yeah what do your parents prefer Lenore but they give you direction on this at all sometimes women must have some way to practice like longer is like hey I did this no you have to practice more but I was like no wait three foot seven years into this is like okay fine how about the neighbors what the neighbors say because some of this equipment you can't see it here with the cameras but makes a fair amount of noise how do the neighbors feel about it they are they behind you are they supporting it yeah they are supporting me I try to keep it low because we live in a valley and then if you put one noise out of that it's just gonna bounce around the islands to the other side yeah yeah yeah I wonder about your band how long you think it'll last it's I guess they're all your age in school together are you all in in my right now Thompson together are they in different schools to they're all in different schools I'm my drummer Noah and my bass player Callahan they both go to KIS and then my other singer so be as she goes to another online school oh good so everybody's in this kind of innovative schooling system one kind of another yeah so that's pretty good you think you'll stay together and just so how long because you know it's hard to stay together as you get older yeah you know family and then growing up and all that stuff I really hope that we stay together for a long time but I don't really want to like try and say we're staying together for this long I don't care what you guys are up to but yeah I hope we stay together until we get famous how will you get famous how how do you see the path to fame I think it's just putting stuff out there and that's just putting stuff out there and like try and be more hey look at me I'm doing this then just like oh I play guitar but I want people to think that I do this like I don't be insecure just like trying to be yourself and put your talents out there well I want to make one thing clear Lenore you have to come back here we have to pepper the internet with your music and and you know sort of watch you grow into a career on this you know that would be really fabulous yeah I think that really should be in your future and if so I mean would you make a career choice for college for example to go to a school where they were going to teach you music would you try to get into Juilliard or some other performing arts school so you know to be exceptional or to find an education which can make you even more exceptional I just want to get into college like yeah yeah okay well but if you go you know to college and I'm sure you will um will you will you want to study music there as well as veterinary medicine for example yeah definitely because you know I mean if like I said before our music is a very big part of me yeah and if you go to college and you do a little music of course you would anyway whether it was studying it or not would you you think you try to establish another band yeah yeah I think I could handle it yeah what's it like to be a band leader because that's different than just being in a band is that you have to be the center of it somehow yeah well it's kind of it's kind of difficult a little bit because you have to like sing and then play and like announce what you're doing without like completely falling down and then like yeah yeah so so you you have to lead the music yes and then you have to be the center of the group so they all come around when they're supposed to come around yeah you know I when you played the first song that was that was without singing and the second song that was with singing so where does singing fit are you are you getting coaching on singing also are you making special efforts to develop your voice because you know voice training not so easy and having a voice that you know is memorable that's not so easy what are you doing on that score well I have had one lesson before but we haven't really gotten back to it I've just been like trying to do scales and like trying to get my voice more confident a little bit because you know I'm getting older and then my voice is getting so sorry for you yeah yeah so right now I'm just trying to figure out how like strong my voice could be and like how low it could go and high you know you have you have the perfect pitch a little rusty with the higher notes and but I've got a I think I could do a pretty good scale yeah so which is more important to you that the singing or they were the playing guitar definitely playing because if you you can sing but playing and singing is kind of hard you know singing and playing you have to worry about the lyrics and you have to remember what pitch it is and you often have to worry about wait am I on the seventh fret am I on what wait what chord am I playing yeah now what kind of guitar is that this is a floating bridge hell razor shector it's got a locking system right here and that helps the tuning you don't have to tune it every minute that way yeah yeah this is fine tuning as well down here to try and help if it goes like a little off what did you call it again a hell razor yes you know this is a family show Lenore and you have another one too right mm-hmm what's the other one the other one is a Ivan is it's also a floating bridge it's got the same locking system the neck is actually quite thinner so there's differences as well like the pickups are a little different there's three in them instead of two and also the locking system and the other fine-tuning is much more harder to do and your favorite this one okay yeah all right okay but you can do you can do virtuoso on both of them yes so I'm gonna ask you to sing one more song going out is it going to be a voice and instrument or or or just instrument it's just gonna be an instrument cuz and what's the name the name is four horsemen by Metallica okay well thank you so much for playing for us Lenore thank you so much Lenore molasses you're gonna play us out