GMI - Guitar And Music Institute Guitar Podcasts

We are just starting to come out of one of the strangest times that any of us will possibly ever face with the Covid 19 pandemic. Ged Brockie of GMI talks with up and coming guitar maestro Honza Kourimsky about being a musician in these lock down days.

Honza Kourimsky in action leading one of his many bands

Most people agree that it is a hard life being a musician. Doing something you love for at times not a lot of money. Add on to that the fact that music scenes are witnessing a contraction in places to play live music and a general public's view in many cases that somehow "music should be free" makes it even tougher; and then we added Covid-19 to the pot!!!

Honza Kourimsky is an exciting and in demand young guitarist who has been active in creating several bands and opportunities for musicians in his currently adopted land of residence Scotland. Ged Brockie talks with Honza about the opportunities he's created and asks how the lock down has affected his work and the work of those around them in terms of the bands and live performance opportunities.

Honza Kourimsky in various action shots including with his band "Jimi Get Your Funk On".

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Podcast Ep 41 – Table Of Contents

2.58 How are you feeling about lock down?5.24 Have new work opportunities presented themselves because of lock down?9.39 How have you gone about creating a career in music? 14.18 What projects are you currently involved with?25.12 Devising and writing new courses and becoming an author. 30.40 Writing musicals!34.23 Advice on getting through lock down as a musician.

Learn more about Honza by following these links.

Look out for Honza's band Jimi Get Your Funk On, listen to the music and see when they're next performing.

Connect with Honza by subscribing to his Youtube channel. 

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Explore the transformative power of community guitar groups in our latest podcast, where Chris Dixon shares his journey from one-on-one tuition to fostering collaborative musical experiences. Discover how connecting with local musicians can elevate your guitar learning, and find exclusive offers at the GMI Guitar Store!

Ged Brockie Of GMI Discusses The Incredible Piece Of Guitar Software That No Guitarist Should Be Without Called "Neck Diagrams" With It's Creator Justin Dolezy.

The three packages available from Neck Diagrams

We've all done it. Grabbed and scribbled down a bunch of lines and created our own chord boxes to then remember the latest and best chord, scale or arpeggio. Perhaps it was a bunch of chords for a song. You would think that there would be a plethora of quality software out there that could help you create beautiful images that you could easily share...but you'd be wrong.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT NECK DIAGRAMS

Justin Dolezy created the company Neck Diagrams over ten years ago and in that time, his software is the "go too" piece of digital kit that guitarists use to create stunning fret board images.

Hot on the heels of our review of the latest incarnation of the software ND2, Ged Brockie discusses all things music, guitar and delves (lightly) into the world of programming. Justin discusses just what it takes to get a program like this up, running and out there to the guitar public at large.

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Podcast Ep 39 – Table Of Contents

2.43 Justin's background in music, music education and guitar playing.14.25 When the idea of ND came about.17.16 The programming language used. 18.10 The initial coding and challenges.19.45 The original ND 1 logo...the two dudes!21.40 The reception to ND 1.27.52 The amount of new code needed for ND 2.28.37 The role of the Neck Diagram Community in developing the program.34.04 The future of ND.

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Jamie Akers Has Realised A Dazzling Career As A Multi-Instrumentalist Of Historical Stringed Instruments Including Early 19th Century Guitars, Lutes and The Amazing Theorbo. Ged Brockie Of GMI Find Out More About This Fascinating Musician & His Instruments.

Jamie in action with the Theorbo. Note, the instruments goes higher than the top of the image!

Once the instrument of choice for those with plucked string leaning, the Lute is now a distant second to the guitar in terms of popularity. This is unfortunate as it's beautiful sound and aesthetic should mean that it gets a lot more attention than it does.

Jamie Akers has worked with just about every major orchestra in the UK, recorded for film, taught across Europe and performed at some of the most prestigious venues in the UK and beyond.

Ged Brockie delves into, or at least talks about medieval instruments and later examples of stringed instrument history with Jamie as well as questioning him about the an instrument that he owns which you can see in the above image which is called the Theorbo.

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Podcast Ep 38 – Table Of Contents

2.22 Exactly what is it that Jamie does?4.21 Discussion about the Theorbo.11.57 The other instruments that Jamie plays including his many Lutes. 24.47 Performing at Festivals around Europe.25.55 The role of early music instruments regarding accompaniment for singers.28.49 Recording for Hollywood films scores.39.57 Teaching at home and abroad.

Video Material

A selection of Jamie's performances from Youtube

Another example of Jamie in performance.

Links To Jamie's Website & Youtube Channel

Learn more about Jamie's musical work by following these links.

Jamie Akers' website at Jamie Akers.

Watch, listen and enjoy Jamie's performances on the Jamie Akers Youtube channel.

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Haftor Medboe is a highly regarded Scottish based composer, guitarist and educator. In this podcast interview, Ged Brockie of GMI discusses these areas of his work but also finds out about his new music label, Copperfly.

Wonderfully evocative image of Haftor in performance

Anyone who has had any dealings with the Scottish jazz scene will no doubt have come across Haftor Medboe. Haftor has been at the forefront of many new musical ventures over the years, not least his work with Napier universities yearly jazz summer school.

What Haftor is now embarking on is a new music label. Creating a record label in the current digital world may sound fanciful, however, there is a twist.

In this interview, Ged Brockie discusses Haftor's new plans as well as exploring his musical background, vision and direction.

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Podcast Ep 37 – Table Of Contents

1.55 What is an "associate professor"?.3.12 Life and times.5.34 Discussing the old trope around Scandinavian musicians. 15.08 The backing of Norwegian arts by their government.20.12 Latest recording and work.23.54 Copperfly, a new record label.37.45 The Scottish Jazz Archive.46.25 The Napier Jazz Summer School.

Video Material

A selection of Haftor's music from Youtube

Links To Haftor's Various Projects

To find out more about Haftor's musical projects click on the following links.

The Haftor Medboe website at Haftor Medboe.

A detailed biography about Haftor can be found at the Napier University website.

The new Copperfly label website is currently in beta.

The Scottish Jazz Archive.

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Tom Lippincott is a highly respected professional guitarist based in Florida, USA. This interview was meant to be broad ranging, however, Tom's eight string guitar (yes you read that correctly) took up almost the entire show!

One thing that non-musicians should understand is that the world is full of great musicians, however, very few can actually claim to make a living from predominantly playing music. This podcast interview is with one such musician Tom Lippincott.

Tom is an incredibly accomplished musician who also teaches guitar. Just take a look at one of his many Youtube video lessons (link below) and you'll immediately be struck by his knowledge and ability to clearly communicate his message.

As the headline notes, this interview didn't get much past Tom's eight string guitar but we are hopeful that we can talk with Tom again in the near future as there is a lot more to discuss!

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Podcast Ep 36 – Table Of Contents

2.50 Opening remarks about Tom's eight string guitar.9.35 Finding a guitar luthier to make the instrument.13.12 Why so many knobs on the guitar?19.35 What is the tuning of the eight string guitar?31.01 Discussing the George Van Esps guitar methods.37.12 Tom's story of actually picking up the guitar from the guitar maker.41.48 Getting used to the bigger neck.46.12 Confessions of a stupid guitar player.50.50 Why is quartal harmony not more "mainstream"?

Video Material

Just two examples of Tom from Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9_lpgGIB-U

Tom playing his eight string guitar

Tom on eight string and Steve on seven string.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5dyHX6QXT4

Performing "All The Things You Are" with Steve Herberman on 7 string guitar

Links To Tom Lippincott

Interested in getting to know about Tom's work? Please follow the links below.

Tom's website can be found at Tom Lippincott

A large range of Tom's guitar tuition can be found on the "Mike's Master Classes" on Youtube.

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It's a fast changing world out there and the effects of the digital revolution are all around. In the world of guitar there are many new success stories, one of which is Guitareo led by guitarist Nate Savage.

There is a lot of choice out there when it comes to learning to play guitar, however, some website and offerings stand out from the crowd and Guitareo is definitely one online guitar resource worth looking at. More than just a bunch of videos, it crucially, offers a community learning experience far beyond the usual guitar Youtube experience.

Guitareo is part of a larger organisation that also offers tuition in drums and the piano to name just two other elements. Find out what this excellent resource is all about and the person who heads up the guitar tuition side of things in this podcast.

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Podcast Ep 35 – Table Of Contents

2.58 Nate discusses the beginning of Guitareo.5.02 Guitareo's structure and tweaking for the guitar market.5.18 Addressing the five main areas within the latest 26 week guitar course.7.12 The core group that Guitareo addresses.7.30 Nate discusses the various other courses available.8.25 Discussing Guitareo's Youtube channel.10.16 Getting the video's out to the people that will really use them.12.04 Interaction with the student's is what helps Guitareo stand out.13.30 Nate's own musical progression.16.56 How content is created for the company.18.38 What you get for a paid guitar tuition course. 21.16 Is the guitar tuition online market saturated?

Video Material

Nate in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bULnYSWNPE

Here is another fine example of Guitareo video tuition material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUfqtggenDE

There are so many videos that we could show, however, we hope that you get the idea as we could embed hundreds of videos from Guitareo. Best this is to click the link below and visit the Guitareo website or Youtube channel and sample for yourself.

Links To Guitareo

Interested in knowing more about Guitareo? Please follow the links below.

Check out the rather funky Guitareo website!

With nearly half a million subscribers, don't miss out on the Guitareo Youtube channel.

Here is the Guitareo Instagram account.

And if you are a FB user, here is the Guitareo Facebook page.

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In September 2017, Andy Squires was interviewed for GMI's "Musician's Moving Online" series (episode 20) as Andy planned the release of his first album under the name TercelVoice. Fifteen months later, we hear how his first release has fared and what advice he has for other singer songwriters.

If you are a singer/songwriter, or indeed any kind of musician who is thinking about releasing a recording and well, you're just not sure if you should do it then you need to listen to this podcast from GMI with Andy Squires.

Andy's positive attitude shines through and his true story of what has happened to him over the course of one year just shines through.

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Podcast Ep 34 – Table Of Contents

2.38 Andy explains the background to the album release.4.28 Gigging the album locally in the north of England.6.18 Making use of contacts - BBC Introducing.7.52 Sending the album out and getting a response - 248k views!12.40 Making use of Facebook ads.14.16 The various download sites that TercelVoice is available on.17.01 Getting a vinyl record made.24.36 Q&A on the process.32.01 Paid radio promotion?41.11 When does recording the second album begin?

Video Material

TercelVoice promo video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDbRvxiqNJI

"Angel" by TercelVoice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=204oeDLvIIs

Links To TercelVoice

Here is a collection of handy links to Andy's various online resources, enjoy!

Andy's website can be found here Andy Squire's website TercelVoice

You can also listen to lots of Andy's content on his Soundcloud page.

Finally, the TercelVoice CDBaby page.

TercelVoice on Bandcamp.

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Paul Holcomb and his new concept for guitar pick players - LEAP the Ergonomic Guitar Pick.

 

When Paul Holcomb decided to revisit guitar playing he was frustrated in part by using a plectrum. With a background in design, Paul decided it was time to do something about it and the LEAP concept was born. Almost space aged in design, Paul talks about the development of this new concept and developing it for a new generation of guitar players.

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Podcast Ep 33 – Table Of Contents

2.45 Who is Paul Holcomb?

6.41 How did the LEAP idea come about?

12.01 The design concept.

15.05 The physiological connection to plectrums.

20.12 Quick fire questions.

29.40 Does LEAP cut down on potential hand pain?

32.22 The artwork associated with the product.

42.36 General thoughts about LEAP and more on it's launch.

Video Material

Paul has a Kickstarter campaign which runs out at the end of October 2018. Here is the demo video for the LEAP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7pF8q7CRJ4

Demo video of the LEAP Ergonomic Guitar Pick system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-aN-dHt3os

Some extended playing with the LEAP for you to check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl_mdlRiHJA

Links To LEAP

Find out more about LEAP and give support.

The EDGE Kickstarter page.

The Youtube Channel.

The Facebook page.

Twitter users can interact here on Twitter.

Instagram Bogstreet

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It's hard to get noticed as a musician these days, so if there is anything out there that can help, you should grab it with both hands. Drooble is a powerful new website for musicians. Ged Brockie talks with founder Melina Krumova about this new force in online music.

Melina Krumova is a musician based in Bulgaria. She is the force behind the music networking site "Drooble". If you've never heard of the website and you create music then you really need to get over there and start being part of one of the fastest growing networking and music exploration sites on the net today. GMI founder Ged Brockie discusses Drooble, finding music and the future plans for the company.

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Podcast Ep 32 – Table Of Contents

3.06 What is Drooble?

6.41 Getting musicians on board and engaged.

9.12 Musicians need to change the way they think about other musicians.

11.37 Does the platform need to get non musicians engaged with the site?

15.48 Regardless of genre, Drooble is looking for genuine music.

17.47 Plans to monetize?

19.34 Melina's background.

23.33 The creation of a rock school in Sofia.

30.20 About specific Karma points and rewards - the currency used on the site.

37.16 Music collection societies and the way forward for musicians.

40.11 Where did the name "Drooble" come from?

Video Material

Drooble is an easy to understand platform, however, just in case they have created some great video content to help you get up and running fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2C73fE-aKY

How the website works, the ins and outs of it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XE5Mp6TrKQ

Promo video featuring Melina. Note: this video language is in Bulgarian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWv19a5F-gk

Short promo video in English.

Links To Drooble

Find out more about Drooble and where to sign up; here are the links you need.

The Drooble website.

The Youtube Channel.

The Facebook page.

Twitter users can interact here on Twitter.

Instagram Drooble

That is the end of this podcast feature, we hope you take a closer look at Melina's website as it really looks like a positive way forward. If you enjoyed this podcast, then please check Out all our other GMI podcasts which can be found HERE.