Current works
Hi this is César Huesca from Mexico. I work as a guitarist with bands, projects, singers/songwriters and recording sessions. I'm also promoting my first solo album already available online for all around the world.
Biography
Cesar Huesca was born in Pachuca Hidalgo Mexico, on August 8th of 1983.
Being always attracted by music since his early days, he used to sing along with his parents records when he was 4 years old, after that he played drums for a while. Strongly influenced by rock music and moved by distorted guitars on MTV, he started to play guitar self-taught at 10 years old and begun to play with many local bands 4 years later.
It was until 2001 after finishing high school that he decided to take music as his life project and got into a music academy in Mexico City, later in early 2003 he went on tour all around Mexico and south of the United States until December of 2004.
In 2005 and 2006 he got into many projects of different sorts with producers, bands and singers/songwriters, doing recording sessions and live performances.
In 2007 he participated in the Greg Howe Play For Me Contest, getting into the 7 chosen guitarists and an Honorable Mention by Greg Himself among guitarists from Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and United States.
In 2008 his YouTube channel got honors of all time in first place as the channel with more subscribers in Mexico, in both categories, musicians and persons of that country. Also as a consequence of his proyection and contributions at YouTube, he happened to have caught the attention of guitar virtuoso Steve Vai, getting his acknowledgement at having some of Cesar’s renditions of various Vai songs featured on the guitarist’s official YouTube channel.
Later he participated in the online guitar contest Guitar Idol 2008, organized by important companies of the music business in United Kingdom, he achieved the third place in the final rank of votes among more than 700 guitar players from all around the world and got into the second place of the list of the 28 best entries getting Honorable Mention among guitarists of U.S. Brazil, Mexico, Canada, U.K. Germany, Russia, France and other countries.
In mid 2008 he released his first independent solo album self-titled Cesar Huesca, which has already reached a lot of his fans in Mexico, United States, Canada, UK and many countries in Europe. This way his album had climb quickly into the top sellers charts on cdbaby.com
Cesar is currently working in several music projects, both in recording sessions and live gigs with different styles of bands and singers/songwriters, also he’s promoting his first solo album already available online for all around the world.
Talking about gear
The right guitar, the right amp, the right effects etc, I would say that essentially what matters the most is what I call the guitar/amp factor, having a decent guitar and a great amp is better than having a Gibson Les Paul Custom plugged in a cheap 15 watt amp, so before thinking in the best guitar, think about a really good amp.
Remember that the best rig in the world won't play instead of you, first of all and most important; practice, develop chops, dynamics, clear musical ideas and a good connection between your fingers and the strings. The tone comes from the way your fingers fret the notes and the way your pick attacks the strings, from there you can tweak the final sound, shaping your amp EQ or adding the effects you want.
Many times when we talk about guitarists sounds we focus on the gear they have, but it's better to pay more attention on their actual voice and musical vocabulary, things like phrasing, feel, note choice, harmony voicings etc.
Try to go simple! be able to play only with your guitar plugged into your amp or even an acoustic guitar, you can do lots of things and create many different sounds only with the guitar pickup switching and the volume pot. Try all different kinds of guitars, amps and stuff, do a research about all the products you can, be informed, then you decide what to use.
Practice and composing method
Once I learn scales/modes, harmony concepts, all the notes across the fretboard, chord voicings and overall chops, at this time I focus more on playing whatever comes to my head than playing scales for hours and hours.
What I generally do is to improvise over a drum sequence and record some takes, listening to everything, judging what is good to me and what is not and work from there, after listening what I did sometimes ideas start flowing and I keep developing those until merging with some others, then it can become a theme or a structure for a song.
Philosophy
Talent doesn't matter if there's no honesty, people should demonstrate what they are and what they do without false pretentions, people will know if you're being sincere or if you're cheating them trying to be something that you are not, if you are convinced that music is your life, go for it and take it as it is, no matter what people think about your vision or perspective, you don't have to please and like to everybody. Follow your ideas, plans and what your heart and mind tell to you. Be diverse, don't get wrapped in just one genre, style, band, proyect or whatsoever, if something doesn't work, doesn't yield anything or simply doesn't like to you, move on for some other options.
It's always good to be patient and not try to run before learning to walk, go little by little, keep the pace that works for you being totally confident on your possibilities. It's all about to keep close to the instrument and being constant, if you trust and be passionate with it something will happen.
There should be no haste, there should be just fun, being glad doing what you love, always with humility to everybody, don't forget we're human beings before musicians or whatever.
Regards and thank you for stopping by in my MySpace page.
Cesar.
Reseña en español.
César Huesca originario de Pachuca Hidalgo México nace el 8 de Agosto de 1983. Empieza a tocar la guitarra de manera autodidacta a los 10 años de edad y comienza a tocar con diversas bandas en la ciudad de Pachuca a los 14 años.
En el año 2000 y 2001 forma parte de algunas bandas del circuito local con las que empieza a proyectarse y darse a conocer alrededor de Hidalgo y otros estados de la república participando en eventos de diversa índole como presentaciones en foros de exposiciones artísticas, varios eventos organizados por Gobierno del Estado y aperturas a conciertos de artistas como Benny Ibarra, Nicho Hinojosa, Azul Violeta entre otros.
En 2002 ingresa a la Academia De Música Fermatta en la Ciudad de México, donde cursa los primeros dos semestres de la carrera en ejecución. Después comienza a trabajar con Piloto(OT), acompañándolo en numerosas presentaciones promocionando el disco Alienta Mi Vida alrededor del país y en los Estados Unidos hasta finales de 2004.
En 2005 colabora con el productor Jorge Dalessio para la realización del opening del Evento Sedal 2005 que tuvo lugar en la Plaza de Toros del Distrito Federal. A mediados de ese mismo año grabó algunas guitarras para el proyecto solista de Carlos Law y para Fernando Lima junto con el productor Jorge Avendaño.
En 2006 vuelve a colaborar con Piloto para grabar "Cadáver Exquisito", tema que viene en el CD compilatorio "Homenaje A Fito Páez" producido y dirigido por Vladimir Suárez Arredondo.
En 2007 recibió una Mención Honorífica por parte del guitarrista Greg Howe en el "Play For Me Guitar Contest", siendo César el único mexicano logrando el cuarto lugar entre guitarristas de Rusia, Estados Unidos, Alemania, Reino Unido y Suecia.
A principios de 2008 logró posicionarse en el 1 de los canales con más suscriptores del portal YouTube en México, tanto en el rubro de personas como en el de músicos en el país. De igual manera, gracias a sus contribuciones en el portal YouTube, César ha logrado captar la atención de guitarristas como Steve Vai, quien le dio su reconocimiento al promover en su propio canal oficial de YouTube algunas interpretaciones que César ha hecho de canciones del mismo Vai.
Después participó en el concurso en línea Guitar Idol, organizado por compañías importantes de la industria de la música en Reino Unido, quedando César en tercer lugar del rank final de los más votados entre más de 700 participantes de todo el mundo y se colocó en segundo lugar de la lista de las 28 mejores participaciones obteniendo Mención Honorífica junto a guitarristas de Estados Unidos, Brasil, México, Canadá, Reino Unido, Alemania, Rusia, Francia entre otros países.
A mediados de 2008 lanza y empieza a promover de manera independiente su primer material discográfico como solista titulado César Huesca, el cual gracias a la internet ha llegado a varios de sus seguidores en México, Estados Unidos, Canadá, Inglaterra y varios países de Europa, colocando su material rápidamente en las listas de discos más vendidos en el portal cdbaby.com
César actualmente es uno de los guitarristas en la banda de Gloria Trevi. También ha colaborado en eventos privados y shows en vivo con Fernando Lima, Efraín Berry, Reyli, Kenny de los eléctricos, Patricio Borghetti, UNO, Kabah, Darina, Mario Patrón, Ana Cirré, integrantes de Timbiriche entre otros.
Del mismo modo continúa colaborando con músicos, bandas y distintos proyectos tanto en escenarios como en sesiones de grabación.
