The Guitar Hour Podcast

Up this week: Beebs, Smith and Quayle are joined by YouTube educator and jazz guitarist Jens Larsen to talk about the success of his channel and.his musical background. They then delve into a huge fretboard visualisation discussion that, shock-horror, is not 3nps vs caged...AND stays civil haha!

This week the boys are joined by Sam Bell to discuss his life as a session guitarist, solo artist, educator and work in the metal band Mask of Judas. They wade deeper into imposter syndrome and Sam talks about the issues around his musical identity. Things circle back to guitar in higher education and the start of an intriguing new commercial music institution called WaterBear. This all pales in comparison however to the mid-episode discovery that Dan was in a myspace era technical punk band!

This week Dan pulls Beebee out of the theory thunderdome to talk about the 'new' John Coltrane lost album: Both Directions At Once, Beebs' big Fibenare travel news and dealing with imposter synrome as a shy Englishman. They also answer some questions pulled from the discussion group whlist fending off those #evilbronsybants

This week Smith n Beebs get meta sharing how they create online guitar content and how they record and produce the podcast. Apologies for the lack of chapters and show notes this week guys. Back to normal next week!

Dan returns this week bringing our good friend Jake Willson with him. Topics on the table: Can you be an ‘authentic’ or ‘legit’ guitarist in many or all styles? Setting up guitars, Updates on Jake's album progress. Beebs and Jake also reflect on their recent trip to Budapest Hungary visiting the Fibenare guys in the workshop of dreams. Finally Jake takes everyone to school with a new term: genre synecdoche!

Beebs sits down with Tom Quayle to chat about his upcoming European tour with Martin Miller, the core minimal skillset required for any given job/gig, and the potential difficulties of living between the cracks of rock and jazz as a modern guitarist - and appealing to both audiences. Big thanks to Tom stepping in for this emergency episode. Dan, Brons and Beebs recorded 12a the night before and due to 'technical difficulties' ahem..lost it!

Beebs is away in Budapest at the Fibenare workshop designing dream guitars and drinking far too much Palinka. So this week we have an audio rip from a recent TGH Live Stream. The guys follow up on the epic modal discussion of Ep 25 and get Tom's thoughts on where the source of the confusion might be coming from. Plus lots of playing and the usual bants. 

Together in person @ the Cat Cave the guys discuss Beebs' newfound love for Hobbycraft, Ikea blackout blinds and filming a new guitar tutorial. More on the Facebook discussion group and some Satriani follow up. Dan then posits a somewhat controversial, and not at all click-baity topic...."Are guitarists inherently less musical than other instrumentalists'. Apologies, the audio might be not as up to scratch this week, the edit was rushed to meet Beebs' birthday curry deadline! Soz.

After sharing the obligatory weekly gig woes, Beebs and Smith follow up on Bruce Forman's mother tunes list and reacc to jam sesssion horror stories. Main topic this week is AXE FIGHTS! An old Ritchie Blackmore interview surfaced giving a not entirley complimentary thoughts on Satriani. As ever, the boys give their worthless mumbles and try to get to the nugget of what might be meant.

We're back to duo format! The boys catch up on recent gigs, hangs and jams before pre-announcing (is that a thing?) a giveaway competition to help build a TGH community. The big topic this week is Bruce Foreman's top 10 tunes for jazz beginers, and their thoughts and experiences. Finally Dan talks about listening in on a foreign jam sesh and the fear they can induce!

Ever expanding, the boys bring back Bronsy and add special guest Jake Willson for an in-depth discussion on the compositional process. They also wax sentimental over Gibson and chapter 11, Bronsy delivers some sick burns, before chatting about crowdfunding a guitar album and Nita Strauss' recent and ridiculously successful kickstarter campaign.

Smith n Beebs go deeper down the shred hole and catch up with Dave Brons. They ask him about his experience learning at the Guitar Institute in London. The guys also discuss flying with guitars, and Beebee's upcoming trip to the magical Fibenare factory in Hungary.

Beebs and Dan follow up on their experiences this week with different amp modellers. Yes it's MORE gear chat, what on earth is going on here? However all that pales in comparisson to the following epic modes rant. After weeks of threatening this topic, they finally discuss why so many guitarists get wrapped up in knots over modes. Strap in, we run a bit long on this one.

Yet again NOT waking up at the crack of noon, Beebs and Smith talk guitar gear, GAS, and Dan's desire to get great recorded guitar tone. We also discover why Beebee was playing gigs in surgical gloves and follow up with more guitar eduction thoughts after Dan (momentarily) goes back to Uni. Today we're brimming with your favourite 2009 internet memes, so grab your juggalo juice, coffee or beverage of choice and get another 60 minutes of guitar chat in your ear holes. x

Good morning guitar geeks. We’re coming at you bright and early this week! Smith n Beebs follow up on the creativity chat from last week. They also find peace with questioning their love for the axe, before pondering the potential differences between the UK jazz guitar colleges and modern/contemporary guitar colleges. Other things concluded: Beebs is falling apart, Tom is the Bebop Spielberg, Dan is the Ross and Rachael of guitar relationships and Bronsy just wants to get naked and shred.