Session guitarist

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Well, I do not ask many questions, but instead, I say that I'm easy to work with, and always give my all to every single song as if it was my own song. My main goal is to make the artist/musician/producer happy, that's what I'm here for.

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

A: This project with this producer in America is quite challenging, and I always feel very proud when he is happy with the material I send him. I just record guitars. Apart from that, everything that I record I always feel I'm making history. It's recorded, it's out, it's immortal. Gives me goosebumps.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I've been working on a few songs for a project of a composer/producer that lives in the USA, through SoundBetter actually. Outside soundbetter, I just keep working on a few different things, live and in the studio.

Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?

A: I'm pretty new here, don't know anybody.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Diggital, just because I never had too many opportunities to work with analog, and when I first started learning stuff, wether playing guitar or messing with recording, there was already technology around me.

Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

A: My promise to my clients, to every single one of them, is that I always push myself very hard and always do the best I can to make the clients happy. And I'm never happy until they are.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: I just love to play, live or in the studio, I love playing guitar, and see the power that music has and the emotion it brings to people's lifes. No one is indifferent to it.

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A: I do not get asked many questions by customers, which is good. I susally get to the studio and start wotking with whatever the customer gives me to work with.

Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?

A: When something hard sounds easy, people think I "just" play guitar. Only god knows hou many thousands of hours I put into this to try to get anywhere.

Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A: Have the most amount of information that you can get. It just makes things run faster, smoother and better.

Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?

A: Guitar, Mic, soundcard, laptop and cables. Enough to record for anybody!

Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

A: I started as a professional at the age of 16, with my own band, and when I turned 18, got my first gig as a session player for a boyband. After that, was always working harder, better and keep growing until today.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: I gravitate more towards acoustic music, so, my acoustic playing is quite good, I like harmony and rhythm, so I care a lot about the groove. My fingerstyle is quite good too.

Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?

A: Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Luke Combs, Alisson Krauss, Jay - Z, Kendrick Lamar. All these artists inspire me and have music that I find interesting.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Sure. Something I try to learn everyday, which is to play less than I think I have to play. Let the song breed, hear the parts, and record something always with the intention to add something new and cool to the vibe.

Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

A: It's very often pop, pop/rock or acoustic orientated. But I've worked on many different things, more jazzy songs, more classical vibe songs.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: I feel the most comfortable with the acoustic instruments on my hands.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I always try to bring feel, groove, expression... Basically try to take the song up to a new level.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: When I get the project, I usually listen to the song (or whatever tracks I have to listen to) to get the feel of it and to start to imagine what parts need guitars and what kind of lines, and then start with acoustic guitars (if the song will have acoustic guitars) and record electrics after that.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I have a very simple setup that I learned a few years back how to get the most out of. Just my computer, my sound card, a couple of condenser and dynamic mics, my JBL speakers, and a few very good guitars. Everything else is just me.

Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

A: Tim Pierce for sure, Raul Midon, Derek Wells, John Mayer, Tommy Emmanuel, Joe Robinson, etc.

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

A: I'm a guitarist, so, I just record guitars. Acoustic (steel and nylon string) and electric.