Meet Luis Gallo

We recently connected with Luis Gallo and have shared our conversation below.

Luis , first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.
Imposter Syndrome is like a wave that come and go in my case, depending on how vulnerable you feel in that period of my life. When I started playing with the “big guys” I found myself working in a music elite I considered I didn’t deserved. All just because of my inner respect to music as a form of art. I got to a point of no return where either I decide to confront that feeling or I had to stop performing. Since I got to the stage I could listen a voice telling me “you don’t deserve to be playing with your idols” it really was a torture. I moved to Jerez de la Frontera in Spain and studied super hard trying to become the best I could. Suddenly I found myself back to composing and feeling comfortable with my playing. I decided to become the best I could in what resonated in me, in my music. If you are honest with your work, imposter syndrome will hit you softer every time. For good and bad, the best is to ignore the noise either if it tells you that your work is not worth as if it tells you that you are one of the world best, I recommend to keep your faith in honest hard work and being yourself as much as possible.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I’m a musician, composer and guitar player and educator. I’ve been 18 years as a professional, performing and teaching in more than 20 countries. I have worked for Hans Zimmer, Covent Garden Soloist Orchestra, Ara Malikian, National Geographic and many others. I’m also brand Godin Guitar Brand Ambassador, touring and making guitar clinics all over the world. As an educator I do remote guitar lessons, guitar workshop abroad and also I recorded 15 hours of flamenco guitar teaching for Elite Guitarist instructional online website. You can listen and watch my videos in YouTube, Spotify and SoundCloud. I’m always open to new students so you can reach me in FB, IG or dropping me a message in my website: www.luisgallo.net

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Curiosity to get involved in different projects of all kind of music, from classical to flamenco, from children oriented to big National Geographic productions. You never know what will be next and what a project will bring you. Flexibility to travel where your services are demanded. In my opinion this is a must for artistic professions.
Understanding professional music as a High qualified profession where you have to learn and develop skills all the time and enjoy it.
My advice would be to find something to balance your dedication to music, it could be sports or develop interest in something else beside music. This helps you to connect you with the world in a different way and helps also to avoid burnout.

What would you advise – going all in on your strengths or investing on areas where you aren’t as strong to be more well-rounded?
I believe is more intelligent go on with our strengths and invest effort in the areas we need to enhance them. When I started using midi I really was tempted to improve my piano skills. Soon a realize I would never be able to develop my music in the piano as I do with guitar, so I got into midi guitar which was much useful for me. Spending time in improving piano was taking me away from my natural path in that moment. Maybe in some years I feel like that, but as an investment in my job, it is not right now. The same about mastering. I rather a professional doing it. I invest my time in improving my music sight reading, harmony develop, technic, composing, recording…if I don’t feel it inside, I just don’t do it. It doesn’t means I will never feel it. Develop your skills and what you like and you will become the best you can in that area.

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