Interviewer: OK David lets begin... the first question, when did you start playing guitar?

David: from the 14 years.

Interviewer: What was the music you listened to when you started guitar?

David: At that time, back in the 1993 I listened to death and black metal which was popular in that era.

Interviewer: When did you change of style and so that?

David: After almost 3 years of playing someone passed me a tape of Yngwie Malmsteen (Rising Force) and it jsut blew me away listening to the great Yngwie. I was so impressed with his guitar technique that I began to listen more guitarists using this style. I listened to Dragons Kiss from Marty Friedman and he became my new guitar god. The guy who was instrumental in providing me with new players to listen to was my friend, Arnaldo Garcia, whose has an encyclopaedic knowledge of this type of music. He sent me the Premonition CD with Tony MacAlpine, who also made an impression on me. I started to use didactic videos by Vinnie Moore and Paul Gilbert, to create a step change in my style and I became obsessed with improving.

Interviewer: Did you form your own group?

David: I formed Witch in 1996 we played our first concert, the band was formed by Carlos Palau bass, Jose on drums and me on guitar and vocals. The style was thrash-metal with many influences like Kreator and already at that time featured small guitar solos.

Interviewer: How many hours do you practice each day?

David: In the beginning when learning to play death metal style I worked mainly on rhythm guitar. When I discovered the guitar videos I began to play almost all day. Some times my practice routine lasted 10 hours. Now I fit in practice when I have time between work and other things I have to do. If I have time, like for example holidays, in the morning I put on a film and I go through my routine for two hours, which gives time to practice my exercises like alternate picking,sweep picking. In the evening I will do 4 hours of composition and practice my songs. If I do not have time but I have a morning, the session of exercises lasts 2 hours, which enables me to maintain my technique. That, by the way, is what I cover in my didactic DVD of guitar exercises.

Interviewer: Can you explain how the didactic DVD, came about?.

David: The truth is I always had the desire to me make a video of guitar like those of my preferred guitarists. I know a great friend (Gavi) who took cinema studies and has recorded two short films. So I spoke with him to confirm that it was a good idea and he said me that was very good and that he was interested. After that I started work and composed the script, got the camera and obtained all the material necessary to record, started the recording, which left me to assemble the video.
In the video I teach exercises of Alternate picking, Sweep-piking, amongst other exercises, like warming up the hands before playing, demonstrations of pieces of my own songs etc. That is the didactic part, which is focused on the guitarist who may not having been playing for a long time. I recorded it in my own room, covering the music of “Paradise Lost”, and the best thing about this is the overall cost is low as I know many guitarists do not have much money to buy the original videos whose prices re over inflated.

Interviewer: Tell me about your songs.

David: My songs, good… the first song I composed was “Cacophony and Legend”. We played it with my band, Witch, but at that time I did not imagine recording an instrumental disc. Later I composed parts of “Paradise Lost” and I had already thought about doing something with music, I began to compose many instrumental parts and I began to join the parts. The music covers subjects like art and magic, except “An Old History” which I composed on my computer in one go...one note at a time one mouse click at a time...LOL . I thought of recording a version of a J.S. Bach work. I am enchanted by Bach's work, mainly the preludes for clavichord, so I found BWV 1046., bass and keyboards. There are also eight guitar sounds on that track. I then completed the compositions “Eternal Dream” and “Lord Of Fire”, which were easier at the time and they flowed rather better.

Interviewer: Tell me about your song for the project, tribute to Jason Becker “Warmth In The Wilderness”.

David: That was a great surprise of my recording company, Heaven Cross, it was like receiving the news from God! I could not believe it, I was going to compose a song for my idol Jason Becker! Straight away I started to compose that song recording, drums guitars etc., and I thought about recording the drums live, so I had Tony Castilla, who is a good drummer, and we recorded in my study, The song is called “Weather In The Cellar” fusing two titles from the masterpiece “Perpetual Burn” since the influences of this song are of “Temple of the Absurd” and "Dweller In The Cellar".

Interviewer: Tell me about your songs about the music and groups you like at the moment?

David: Good, groups that I listen now are MESHUGGAH, KORN, COAL CHAMBER, MNEMIC, PANTHER, DAMAGEPLAN, SYMPHONY X, among others, and guitarists. Those that I listen are GEORGE BELLAS, YNGWIE, MACALPINE, GREG HOWE, VITALIJ KUPRIJ, from time to time the “Perpetual Burn” of JASON BECKER...but I don't get time to listen all the time LOL

Interviewer: I see from you web site your working on a new CD.

David: Good, yes this is almost finished. My new work it is going to be something different, this is characterised by my use of 7 string guitar for the rhythm sections, which makes the sound a little dark and heavy, but good. The style will be very much my own and covers 13 subjects of which 2 are versions of Bach, one is a prelude for two guitars. I am doing the drums, bass and rhythm guitars. The final sound will have up to 8 guitars simultaneously, which really moves me! I hope that the people likes it and it transmits the same sensation to them. By the way the album is going to be called “IMHOTEP”. After recording the bass and guitars, which I am recording in my study. I am also hoping to collaborate with players like Chastain or Andy La Roque.

Interviewer: What are your plans for the future?

David: My future plans at the moment, will be to finish the CD then work on a new didactic DVD. I am also hoping to work with a band to play live nationally. I shortly start on a new didactic DVD and and instrumental DVD, but this is likely to be next year.

Interviewer: Good, to end, what would you say people who are reading this interview?

I simply say thank you very much to all, thank you very much for the support you have shown me. To the guitarists who like this style that they begin, to start their own projects composing, recording and playing without stopping. Greetings to all and thanks for everything again.