Nili Brosh: guitar9 interview


Dan McAvinchey: Nili, when did you first get interested in guitar, and how did you learn and progress as a player?

Nili Brosh: I have three older brothers, and I was always surrounded by music as a kid. I first became interested in the guitar because my older brother Ethan is a guitar player. As a little sister, I have always looked up to him. During my teenage years, most of my growth came from transcribing anything I liked to listen to. Videos were harder to come by at that time (it seems that I have missed the "YouTube age" by just a few years), and tabs always seemed wrong. So the most comfortable way for me to learn was by ear. It is still the quickest way I learn things now.


Dan McAvinchey: Did you feel accepted as an equal when you studied at Berklee College of Music?

Nili Brosh: Definitely. At school, I've never felt like I was judged differently or looked down upon because I was female. I think Berklee is a very positive place, all of the students and teachers are very encouraging.


Dan McAvinchey: Tell us a little bit about your debut CD "Through The Looking Glass". How did you come up with the concept and songs for the CD?

Nili Brosh: Each song in the CD was written at a different time. Some were written when I was 17, some were written by the time I was 19. It was all over the place in that sense, and it took another year or two to get the tunes to develop to the way they sound now. That is how I came up with the concept of the album. To me, "Through The Looking Glass" marks the reflection on my musical growth throughout the last several years. Looking back on my writing and playing at the beginning of the project, and seeing the progress I've gone through to get to the finished product, to the current sound in my musical life. More

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