Wong Notes Live! with Matteo Mancuso
Wong Notes
Premier Guitar
4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
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.
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. I hope you're |
| 0:06.4 | having a good day today. I sure am because I get to tell you about this episode that I did with |
| 0:12.4 | Mateo Mancuso. Now this interview was done at the Cory Wong's syncopated summer camp, which, |
| 0:19.6 | if you're unfamiliar, it's four days and nights |
| 0:22.2 | of a rhythm section camp, and we do a bunch of master classes, lessons, concerts, jam sessions, |
| 0:29.7 | and whatnot is a very fun time. I'm going to be announcing the next one sometime, I don't know, sometime soon. |
| 0:39.2 | But look out for that. |
| 0:40.9 | This interview was done at my last camp. |
| 0:44.1 | Mateo and I have become friends. |
| 0:45.9 | He's such an incredible musician, very wise, just very dedicated to the craft of guitar and music and art. |
| 0:56.6 | All right, those are different things. |
| 0:59.0 | Actually, it's a bit of a ladder, if you will. |
| 1:02.0 | Guitar, music, art. |
| 1:04.3 | Think about it. |
| 1:06.1 | Anyway, very excited about this interview. |
| 1:09.0 | It was really fun. |
| 1:09.9 | It's the only one I've ever done in front of a live audience, and we had a good time. It was pretty chill. It was kind of a late night hang thing, and if you missed it, well, don't miss the next camp because we do all kinds of stuff like this. Also, hey, I hope you're having a good holiday season. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving and whatnot. |
| 1:29.3 | We're in that holiday season, which means we got deals going on. |
| 1:33.3 | Alright, if you're somebody who's wanting to get better at the guitar, I guarantee. |
| 1:38.3 | I will give you a guarantee right now. |
| 1:40.3 | You hear it, this is the only place you're going to get a real guarantee like this. |
| 1:50.3 | The Corey Wong guitar chorus. This isn't just for rhythm players. This is to expand your overall fretboard knowledge, how to practice better, how to show up more prepared to jam sessions, |
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