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Wampler Pedals (with Brian Wampler) Ep072
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Brian Wampler is the founder and CEO of Wampler Pedals. Brian joins Aaron Sefchick, Joe McMurray, and Miles Harshman to discuss the world’s largest pedalboard, his favorite guitar effects pedals, how he spends his work-days and approaches design, and guitar amplifiers.
Recently, Brian participated in breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest guitar pedalboard (with Rob Scallon and several other effects pedals companies). He tells the guys about his experience and about meeting Alex Lifeson (the guitarist of Rush).
Brian tells the guys about his favorite pedals from Wampler Pedals. The guys want to know how he spends his workdays: from breadboarding to building plug-ins to creating content for social media.
Brian gives insight into the guitar amps that he uses to test his effects pedals during the design stage. The guys also talk about the merits of running a pedal through a clean amp vs. a naturally dirty/overdriven amp. They also talk about the virtues of amp simulators. Brian tells the guys about his own Wampler Bravado amplifier.
Find out more about Brian Wampler and Wampler Pedals at https://www.wamplerpedals.com or https://m.youtube.com/user/wampcat.
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Jazz Guitar and Online Success Part 2 of 2 (with Jens Larsen) Ep071
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Jens Larsen is a Danish jazz guitarist who has become an internet celebrity for his YouTube lessons. Aside from his incredible jazz guitar chops, he has posted over 700 YouTube videos, has acquired almost 150,000 YouTube subscribers, and recently released two books. Joe McMurray and Aaron Sefchick sit down with Jens to talk about his journey, how to approach jazz as a player and as a teacher, musical gear, online success, practicing, composition, and recording.
Jens has become famous through his YouTube lessons on how to play jazz guitar. In Part 2/2, he says that he originally started posting transcriptions of jazz solos, then began writing blogs for UltimateGuitar.com, and finally started posting videos on YouTube. Recently he released two books, Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts and Advanced Jazz Guitar Concepts.
Aaron asks Jens how he approaches his practice sessions, and Jens provides an in-depth look into his practice routine. He warms up by playing chromatically across the guitar neck in all 12 keys, he practices 7th arpeggio patterns, triads, and open-voiced triads over the entire neck, and he creates simple melodies by ear and transposes them to all 12 keys. Then he practices his triad ideas over the chord changes of jazz tunes. Jens practices with his metronome set on beats 2 and 4, but also experiments playing with the metronome set on unusual beats to spur rhythmic creativity.
Jens tells of some of his most meaningful performances as well as his dream show. He talks about his band (Traeben), how he/they compose songs, and the differences among his three albums.
Finally, Jens gives us a few inside looks at his other hobbies and interests outside of music!
Find out more about Jens Larsen at https://jenslarsen.nl/
YouTube: YouTube.com/c/JensLarsen
Band Website: Traeben.com
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Jazz Guitar and Online Success Part 1 of 2 (with Jens Larsen) Ep070
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Jens Larsen is a Danish jazz guitarist who has become an internet celebrity for his YouTube lessons. Aside from his incredible jazz guitar chops, he has posted over 700 YouTube videos, has acquired almost 150,000 YouTube subscribers, and recently released two books. Joe McMurray and Aaron Sefchick sit down with Jens to talk about his journey, how to approach jazz as a player and as a teacher, musical gear, online success, practicing, composition, and recording.
In Part 1 of 2, Jens tells of his years playing on the streets of Copenhagen, followed by his studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (in the Netherlands). The guys discuss how to learn, review, and perform new jazz tunes. Then they discuss the merits of preserving traditional musical styles vs. pursuing progressive musical styles. Jens tells Joe and Aaron how he would approach teaching a new jazz guitar student, providing some very useful information for both teachers and players!
Next the guys move on to a look at guitar gear. Jens talks about his guitars (notably an Ibanez AS2630), amps, and effects.
Find out more about Jens Larsen at https://jenslarsen.nl/ or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqepSCHTyWj4BzHxEEUNvlg.
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Songwriting and Composition Part 2 of 2 (with Paul Barsom) Ep069
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In this episode, Aaron sits down with composer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Barsom of The Weed Garden to discuss his project’s latest release, Boy Interrupted.
Paul’s career as a composer and teacher of musical composition spans over 30 years and has influenced numbers of composition students and musical educators, including Fret Buzz The Podcast alumnus Tony Scaltz.
As a result, Tony makes a guest return to the show to join Aaron and Paul on the mic and discuss the genesis and recording of Boy Interrupted and the various styles and musical idioms the album invokes. In addition, the guys explore how composers approach creativity, musical invention, various career paths, adaptation to digital audio environments, and so much more.
Be on the lookout for Tony’s new line of skin care products, Prodigal Sun, which hits beaches across the country next summer.
Find more about Paul here:
http://paulbarsom.com/
Songwriting and Composition Part 1 of 2 (with Paul Barsom) Ep068
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In this episode, Aaron sits down with composer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Barsom of The Weed Garden to discuss his project’s latest release, Boy Interrupted.
Paul’s career as a composer and teacher of musical composition spans over 30 years and has influenced numbers of composition students and musical educators, including Fret Buzz The Podcast alumnus Tony Scaltz.
As a result, Tony makes a guest return to the show to join Aaron and Paul on the mic and discuss the genesis and recording of Boy Interrupted and the various styles and musical idioms the album invokes. In addition, the guys explore how composers approach creativity, musical invention, various career paths, adaptation to digital audio environments, and so much more.
Be on the lookout for Tony’s new line of skin care products, Prodigal Sun, which hits beaches across the country next summer.
Find more about Paul here:
http://paulbarsom.com/
Amp Modeling (with Ryan Brown) Ep067
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Ryan Brown of “The Great Noise” joins Aaron Sefchick and Joe McMurray to talk about amp modeling (the Line 6 Helix), improving live shows with technology, and social media marketing.
Ryan and his band decided to make the jump from tube amps and analogue effects pedals to all digital equipment run direct into the PA system. He uses the Line 6 Helix Guitar Multi-effects Floor Processor, which gives him nearly infinite tonal options in one unit. Ryan explains how the Helix uses impulse response to simulate the sound of a guitar amp, speaker, and microphone. He also mentions some other useful tips for getting genuine sounds and feel/response from the Helix.
Aaron, Joe, and Ryan discuss studio experiences and the need to interact with the recording engineer. Joe talks about how he uses the Digitech TRIO+ for both practice and live performance. The guys talk about improving live shows with lighting and Ableton.
Finally, Ryan talks about social media marketing and branding. They examine color schemes for branding, the failed Fyre Festival, short-term goals, the curation of content to show people your personality and your authenticity, and following your analytics.
Find out more about Ryan’s band, The Great Noise, at https://thegreatnoise.space/ or https://www.instagram.com/thegreatnoise/ or check out their music on iTunes.
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Jazz Flute, Piano and Voice (with Jennifer Gammill) Ep060
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Jennifer Gammill is a jazz vocalist and flautist who won the 2018 VEER award for “Jazz Album of the Year” in southeastern Virginia. She also performs with co-host Joe McMurray in a jazz duo called “Blue Orpheus.” Aaron Sefchick and Joe talk with Jennifer about her background in worship music, jazz flute, teaching music to large groups, songwriting, jazz conferences, and online presence/social media marketing.
Find out more about Jennifer Gammill at:
Website: www.jennifergammill.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennifergammill/
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Fingerstyle Guitar, Acoustic Pickups Part 1 of 2 (with Matt Thomas) Ep056
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Matt Thomas has won several international fingerstyle guitar competitions (twice in “contemporary thumbpicking” and once in “open style”), is an avid harp-guitar player, and has played with some of the biggest names in the acoustic guitar world (Tommy Emmanuel, Stephen Bennet, and many more). Aaron Sefchick and Joe McMurray talk to Matt about his personal journey, fingerstyle techniques, acoustic pickup systems, recording, and gigging.
In part 1 of 2, Matt tells the guys about meeting Tommy Emmanuel, Andy McKee, and Stephen Bennett at a harp guitar convention when he was a teenager. He then goes on to explain and demonstrate percussive methods on the acoustic guitar: the use of thumb slaps on the 2 and 4, a palm kick on the 1 and 3, and a palm kick on the 2 and 4.
Matt gets deep into the details of amplifying acoustic guitars. He tells Joe and Aaron about Tommy Emmanuel’s setup with a Maton guitar and AER amp. He talks about sound hole pickups, magnetic pickups for running effects, and transducer pickups.
The conversation shifts to Matt’s experience recording with Kim Person (who has also recorded Tommy Emmanuel and Stephen Bennett), and her approach to recording acoustic instruments.
The guys talk about practicing their instruments and the need to practice properly to avoid injury. Finally (for part 1 of 2), Matt talks about some modern guitar players who use effects and multiple pickup systems to create some very unique music. Those players include Alexandr Misko, Adrian Belew, and Petteri Sariola.
Find out more about Matt Thomas at: https://www.themattthomas.com/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/themattthomasmusic/, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TheMattThomasMusic/.
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Fingerstyle Guitar, Online Success Part 2 of 2 (with Adam Rafferty) Ep055
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Adam Rafferty is a jazz guitarist-turned fingerstyle guitarist who has found huge success through YouTube, as an online guitar-coach, and as a touring performer. Check out his awesome fingerstyle arrangements of tunes by Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, as well as jazz standards. Joe McMurray and Aaron Sefchick have the opportunity to talk with Adam about his journey, his internet success, his method of arranging for fingerstyle guitar, his gear, and his experiences with copyright law.
In part 2 of 2, Adam tells the guys about his Maton and Cole Clark guitars, his AER amp, and the rest of his gear.
Aaron and Joe are very interested in how Adam deals with copyright law as it applies to his YouTube videos of cover songs as well as his teaching business. He is incredibly open and informative!
Adam recounts his musical journey from his childhood and teenage years, to his classical training in college, his formation of a hip hop group, and his jazz studies with Mike Longo (pianist for Dizzy Gillespi).
Finally, Adam talks about life as a touring musician and how he practices and stays comfortable and confident on the road.
Find out more about Adam Rafferty at: https://www.studywithadam.com/ or https://www.adamrafferty.com/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/adamraffertyguitar/. He also hosts the Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout podcast.
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