Session guitarist audition practice interview
Groove, tone, chart reading, stylistic range, quick arrangement changes and professional studio habits. Practise the 5 questions casting panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the audition
A session guitarist audition tests whether you can contribute accurate, tasteful parts under recording pressure. The producer or musical director looks for solid time, controlled tone, chart literacy, broad stylistic awareness and a practical response to brief feedback.
How to prepare
- Practise common progressions with a click at different tempos and subdivisions.
- Work through chord and number charts while tracking repeats, stops and section changes.
- Prepare contrasting clean, driven and ambient sounds at matched output levels.
- Rehearse simplifying a busy part so it leaves space for vocals and other instruments.
- Check every cable, power supply, battery and backup needed for your setup.
Common mistakes
- Filling every space instead of supporting the arrangement.
- Changing tone patches without checking their relative volume.
- Continuing to explain a choice after the producer has asked for a different one.
- Arriving with an elaborate setup that you cannot troubleshoot quickly.
What to expect
A real audition interview
5 questions the way casting panels ask, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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