Wong Notes Live! with Matteo Mancuso

Back in August, at Cory Wong’s Syncopated Summer Camp in Nashville, Wong hosted a late-night interview and hang session with Italian guitar hero Matteo Mancuso. If you weren’t there, you’re in luck: This week’s episode of Wong Notes features that exclusive rendezvous in its entirety, recorded live in front of an audience of camp attendees.Mancuso unearths his roots on the guitar, from starting on the electric guitar to learning Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix while using his father’s finger-picking style. “Later on, I discovered about the pick, but I was too lazy to start again,” says Mancuso, who shouts out other fingerstyle players like Wes Montgomery and Django Reinhardt. Mancuso credits his unique playing vocabulary to his atypical approach to the instrument, which meant he had to “find some solutions to some technical problems” that he encountered while learning to play. What kind of warm-ups does he turn to when he wants to get his fingers and brain moving? Mancuso has a few thoughts, but it all has to be “goal-oriented.” Mancuso and Wong, both veteran bandleaders at this point, swap advice and techniques on heading your own band, arranging, and writing, plus scores of other obscure tricks of the trade. Tune in and listen to get the goods. Get 30% off your first year of DistroKid by going here: Visit Matteo Mancuso: Hit us up: wongnotes@premierguitar.com Visit Cory: Visit Premier Guitar: Twitter: IG: Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong Presented by DistroKid

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Wong Notes Live! with Matteo Mancuso is an episode from Wong Notes by Premier Guitar.

This episode is 01:20:02 long.

This episode was published on Dec 10, 2025.

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