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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Janelle Borg

“‘If you’re serious, here are some things you should be working on.’ One of those was the Nashville Number System”: One of Nashville’s first-call session players on the transcription hack that helped him go from server to working with Post Malone

Derek Wells Guitarist on ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp - Recording Session with Jake Owen on June 26, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee.

As one of Nashville’s first-call session players, Derek Wells’ work can be heard on tracks by the who’s who of the country world and beyond – with names such as Brooks & Dunn, Maren Morris, Mason Ramsey, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs and Post Malone all recruiting him for their records.

Wells’ parents are both musicians – his mom a songwriter, singer, and pianist, and his dad a guitarist and producer – but being raised in a family of musicians didn’t necessarily mean that he had it easy.

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