Listening to Will Smith’s newest monitor, First Love, you’d assume he was backed by a complete flamenco ensemble. Nevertheless, the percussive rhythm, twanging melody and bassline are all carried out by Polish guitarist Marcin Patrzałek. And he’s enjoying the whole lot concurrently.

In a brand new Instagram video, Marcin breaks down his spectacular percussive fingerstyle for Smith. “You reached out to me, and also you wished me to return in your monitor and do one thing on the guitar in a Spanish fashion,” he begins. “I believed, okay, I’ve to indicate him how I do it…”

As Marcin says this, he’s enjoying a one-handed “bassline” virtually unconsciously – and that bassline is the muse of his sound. After rapping and tapping out a beat on the guitar physique, Marcin explains that his fashion is just not “multi-tasking”, as a result of he isn’t fascinated with his left hand in any respect.

“It’s not [multi-tasking], as a result of I’m not fascinated with this hand,” he insists. “If I used to be fascinated with each observe I used to be enjoying, how may I’ve a dialog with you proper now? Perhaps it’s like on a film set… whenever you need to say your traces, you don’t need to take into consideration each single phrase, proper? It needs to be pure.”

Smith concurs, noting that: “In appearing they are saying ‘you [should] be taught your traces so properly that you simply neglect them when it’s time to say them!’”

Marcin then builds on this foundational bassline. With the left hand behind his thoughts, he’s free to give attention to improvising; he can knock out some percussive beats, twang out a melody on the remainder of the strings, or dance his fingers so as to add extra spice to the rhythm.

With a view to construct the sound of First Love, Marcin utilised a basic flamenco method. He reveals Smith a golpe, which “means punch in Spanish”, earlier than explaining that he wished that it sounded “somewhat skinny… so we make it a bit deeper”.

To deepen his sound, Marcin begins whacking his wrist additional up the physique of the guitar. “It’s like a heartbeat,” he says. He quickly concerned his fingers, tapping them in a means that just about feels just like the rapping of castanets.

“It’s kinda like tap-dancing,” he notes. Quickly after, he decides to let his palms dance across the guitar much more fervently, fingers flying as if he’s been placed on quick ahead. All through, Smith nods alongside to the “freaky” rhythm, completely in awe of Marcin’s enjoying.

By the point Marcin is on full-power, piecing collectively his bassline, wrist thumps and dancing fingers, all-the-while fingerpicking a melody, the guitarist is positively beaming. There’s one thing playful in how he performs, the rhythm coming to him with ease. And Smith says what all of us are considering: “that’s wonderful!”

Whereas his fashion clearly comes as second nature to him, it feels extremely cheeky when he insists his inhuman abilities are “easy!” Christ, Marcin, don’t rub it in!