Can you tell us more about you? What is your age? Where you were born, is your family in the music business? When did you start playing guitar and how you came to this instrument?

Hello, first off thanks you so much for the interview, I desire to send a greeting to readers and thanks for read.
I was born 36 years ago (in 1973). In my family and the environment I grew up no one was musician, even not and afiction for the music, the only one person who listened to the music at home was my older sister
and thanks to her since I was a boy I listened to people like David Bowie, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones … and this kind of music, the music my sister was buying, then the boy grows up and choose the music he likes,
in my case the rock. The next step was to buy a guitar and learn how to play it, that was something I always wanted to do but I didn't start since I was 19.

Which were your main musical influences?

At the beginning I listened to every kind of bands, but later I discovered the instrumental music and guitarists like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen, they were who more influenciated me in my
beginning, but I try that every thing I listen could influence me so I listen instrumental music from guitarists as other musicians, though if I have to be sincere I enjoy more with the guitar instrumental music. I have the
habit of listening so many guitarists as I can, some of my favourites and from I try to influenciate myself more are Frank Gambale, Brett Garsed, José de Castro, Jason Becker, Brent Mason, Steve Ray Vaughan, Andy
Timmons, Shawn Lane, etc, these are some of the more known, but the list would be endless because in every guitarist I listen I discover things I like, technique, rhythm, composition, phrases, etc

Worked the guitar much? How you work the guitar what are the main and typical exercises you do everyday before playing or while playing? What are your main practice ideas? Do you give the advise to start playing on
the acoustic guitar first? (Here you can send me powertabs/jpeg etc… practice ideas with audio if
possible, I can put them on line with the interview)

When I started with the guitar I didn't thought to dedicate it professionally, but playing the guitar was something that I enjoyed so I practiced every time I was able, the problem was that I practiced in a very
disordered way and this didn't make me progress. With the tim I learned to order my study time and this made to progress my capacity with the instrument. My idea of what a study of the guitar should be consist
basically in working the technique while you learn how to use all the scales and arpeggios. I never liked to repeat too much an exercise, so if I had to do an exercise I tried to build variations and not doing the same
thing again and again. In my opinion there are two ways to obtain a good technique, the first is repeating a thousand of times a couple exercises, the other is repeating a couple of times thousands of exercises, personally
I prefer the second one, I found it more funny and profitness. The idea is building every type of variations over any idea or exercise for no repeat the same thing again and again, in this way our hands are working as our
head does, learning each day more scales and arpeggios over the neck of the guitar.
The system is simple, let's suppose we have a secuence like this in economy picking …

Now what it should to do is develop this secuence in a diatonical form through the twelve tones, then we could develop it over pentatonic scales or even arpeggios. In this way our right hand would work in economy
picking but at the same time we realize other scales and patterns over the neck and we learn to move in other tones. In my first book called Ideas, Phrases & Exercises for the Modern Guitarist I explain this concept in depth. From this website www.tonilloretideas.com you can download a free demo (60 MB) with some exemples of the book. Another thing I don't like to do in my practice sessions is to warm up my hands, I think that we have to use this time to learn things, the thing is not only about moving your fingers over the neck, so I preffer to star my practice analyzing a jazz standar, practicing cadences of II-V-I with the Drops, or simply begin
to play without forcing too much the left hand. Another idea that was succesful to me was to organize a imetable with the main techniques of the electric guitar. The idea was to practice one technique per day, so what I did was to dedicate one hour at day to any one of the main techniques. Monday alternate picking, tuesday legato, wednesday sweep picking, thursday stretching, friday economy picking and saturday tapping. This helped me to keep the contact with all the techniques, cause before of organize in this way my study I could be months practicing one technique and then realize that I failed in others, with a timetable like this you make sure you study the main techniques and every day you make a different hand to work, alternate picking (right hand), legato (left), sweep picking (right), stretching (left), economy (right).

The idea if it's better to start playing an acousting guitar seems to me ok if you like to play the acoustic guitar. But I think if what you like is the electric guitar, then you should start playing with the electric guitar. In my case was the other, I began with electric guitar and then I moved to acoustc to study in a classic musical college. There I learned many things, but above all the discipline with it they boarded the instrumen study, this discipline I tried to apply to my way of studying the guitar.

Do you give your fans or those participating to your jigs the advice to work standards? Or you push them to create their own tunes and their own technique?

I think both things are important, I attempt to teach my students in a estandar way, but also I give some ideas so they can develop and try to reach their own style and sound. There are stundents that want to sound like some guitarist and others want to learn to do different things and they search sounds that are not typical.

What is your process of composition, do you think chords do you think scales or you improvise and if something sounds good to your ears, you keep it? Or you hear in your head what you want to play?

Normally I use a midi secuenciator to write music, in this case what I do is not think about scales or chords, I just listen in my head the music then I began writing into the secuenciator note by note. Other times I have a chord progression I like, then I write a melody and in some case also I write riffs and melodies improvising over battery loops. I couldn't say I have a steady way of composing …

Do you play other instruments than guitar?

No, the unique instrument I play is the guitar, this is the unique reason I lament that I started late with the music. If I would started some younger with the guitar possibly I would tried to learn playing the piano too, it's
the instrument next to the guitar more I like.

Do you have projects of CDs to come? Can you tell us more about your discography? on your website we see a participation to some heavy metal bands like the dusk fall etc…can you tell us more about that

Since today I always had focused my career to the guitar teaching, giving particular classes or in group and writing articles and electric guitar methods, but animated by friends and visitors of my web site that aked
me for my own songs I decided to record a tape with some of my own songs. You can download the tape from my web site, totally free. Also I had the honor for colaborating in a CD which songs has been chosen by the members of a spanish guitarist portal (www.guitarristas.info). In this CD colaborates big hispanic guitarists as Alberto Noriega, Juan Carlos Coronado, Paul DiAngelo, Robert Rodrigo, David Valdés, etc … in this moment the CD is been masterized in Canada in Juan Carlos Coronado's studio and I suppose it will be available in a pair of weeks. The CD will be distributed by internet and free from www.guitarristas.info , from my web site and from every site with the proper link. Nowadays I'm working in a instrumental music project (Toni Lloret Band) formed by Gastón at the bass, Juan Pablo at the battery and me at the guitar. During this summer we will try to fix some songs I've wrote and compose other news, if every thing goes good we'll try to play live and maybe in a near future we'll able to record our first instrumental CD.

I had a friend who dis-advised taking courses of guitar to avoid formatting his way of playing, and to be able to create his own style, it is an error because one does not prevent the other and one can lose years
to be stagnated. What a guitar player like you think of this?

It seems to me a very interesting option and perfectly valid. I think is over demonstrated that the guitar is an instrument which allows been played in many different ways and each way will give you a special sound.
There are people that preffer to play with fingers, others with the guitar at the knees like if were a piano, some left-handed play with guitar for right-handed without changing the strings order even Tony Melendez plays with
his feet. It seems to me perfect that someone tries to develop his own technique and obatin then his own sound, but also he would have to train other aspects like the improvisation, the phrase, the rhythm or the
harmony and in these concepts a teacher would help a lot if no he should study boods of music.

Precisely, is it possible to still invent something in guitar? Finally, all or almost was not already invented?

I think still is possible to do new things in the guitar and music, but nothing comparable with things like Hendrix or Yngwie did, revolutionating the guitar in these days. I think still is possible to obtain an own sound
and phrase, but it's true that every day is harder. Maybe one of the ways to found new styles is working in inusual measure like groups of five or seven notes.

Modal Arpeggio with groups of seven

This is other interesting idea to play a maj7 arpeggio in every inversion. The example is written in 16th but you can play it in other measure.

Another option would be break with the typical secuences of 3 notes per string.

The key is searching our own pattern and adapt it to our phrase. In instruments like clarinet or saxofon we can find plenty of melodical lines that normally are not used in the guitar.

Saxo phrase
Listen to other instruments and try to imitate his phrase could be a good inspiration to find a sound and phrase more personal.

What material do you use, whether it is in studio or on scene during your gigs alone or with a band? Do you have a guitar with your own signature? What is a good guitar for you? What yout main criteria of judgment? Tell us more about your gear in detail.

The gear I use at the present day is formed by prev/multieffect Digitech 2120 and a ENGL 60+60. This is the gear with I have done some gigs for Spain with a band in which I played every kind of music and is the same
gear I use now, to play live and in studio, though in studio normally I use POD cause is not necessary to put microphones so is comfortable. About electric guitars I have and Ibanez 2720 (seven strings with piezo), a G&L
Legacy DeLuxe and my main guitar and which I like more, an AFJ Custom, built by the Luthier Toni Fayos by my tecnichal specifications and taste. When chosing a guitar simply I want a aesthetic I like, then that I would
feel comfortable playing with it and that the sound would like to me, I think this is what all the guitarist search when proving a guitar.

Thanks you so much for the interview, and thanks for read!