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Soundtrack To My Life: Obed Padilla & Santana's Abraxas Pt.2

19 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short conversational transcript from a YouTube video in which Obed Padilla discusses growing up in a religious/sheltered household and his musical beginnings. He describes learning bass guitar first, playing regularly in church, later moving to guitar, and being largely self-taught while feeling grateful for the lessons his upbringing provided.

Questions this video answers

Bass guitar.

Yes.

Yes; he says he was self-taught.

The black and whiteness of growing up in a religious household. You're kind of more aware of the gray area. Everything is a gray area. Nothing but black and white.
So what instrument did you play growing up?
I started on. The first instrument I played was bass guitar.
So did you play in church?
Yeah, I grew up playing in church.
Me too. I played drums in church three times a week. Yeah, because.
We were always there. You're bored and so there's always instruments around, so. So yeah, I started on bass, learned how to play all the notes and what you know, the notes were, and then I went to guitar.
Did you take lessons or you just self taught?
I saw I'm self taught. Yeah. I don't know. I feel blessed. Like even. Even though I was strict and, you know, I was sheltered and stuff, it was great. Like I am grateful for all the lessons and stuff that I learned.