The Guitar Hour Podcast is a weekly, long-form discussion hosted by David Beebee, Tom Quayle, Dan Smith & Jake Willson. Together, and in conversation with today’s top players, they explore different approaches for improvising, theory, technique, practising, teaching and share the humorous ups and downs of being professional guitarists in the modern age.
176 Available Episodes (176 Total)Average duration: 01:14:25
Apr 08, 2023
175: Marshall Sold, Martin Miller Album & Retro Gear Nostalgia
01:10:48
Jake is on a show so the Beebs, Smith, Qualye power pod trio is back. After some meandering intro bants the boys discuss the release of friend of the show Martin Miller's new album, the recent Marshall deal with Swedish company Zzound and go down a rose tinted nostalgia worm hole about retro gear we had in the 90's. Enjoy!
Mar 30, 2023
174: THAT Nuno Solo & Our Final Boss Level Guitar Solos
01:08:03
Back together finally to discuss THAT crazy Nuno Bettencourt solo from the new Extreme track. The guys also chat through what would be the end game boss level difficulty guitar solos to replicate.
Nov 14, 2022
173: Posture, Physical Health & Guitar Tekkers
00:58:37
Ever young vampire Dan has double booked, so the oldies (Beebs, Tom and the Doctor) sit around to complain about ageing, failing bodies and how bad posture may or may not be getting in the way of guitar playing. On a positive note there are some interesting things discovered along the way. The extended Patreon edit includes (amongst other things) a detour into halloween horror movie recommendations.
Oct 27, 2022
172: Tom Quayle Ant Law Jake Willson Jazz Trio & Strymon BigSky Plug-in
01:23:19
A 2-parter episode. First of all the lads welcome back Ant Law for a debrief on the Tom Quayle, Ant Law Jake Willson Ibanez/Guitar Guitar Jazz Trio clinic tour they recently completed. On side B, the guys discuss the recent Strymon BigSky Plug-in release and debate the nature of guitar related plug-ins more generally.
Oct 16, 2022
171: Time Management For Mortal Guitarists
01:16:10
With the Doc down' pit and catchups out the way, Beebs presents some practise and time management ideas discovered whilst in the bowels of the Nepali monastery. Naturally Tom pushes back for a classic TGHP debate whilst Dan throws in the jokes and threads the needle for us. Surprisingly given the subject matter, this is a humorous banger!
170: Jack Gardiner: Catch Ups, Live & Pentatonics Are For Boomers?! haha
01:10:27
Do you Boomatonic bruv?! Longtime friend of the show and all round six string legend, Jack Gardiner returns to chew the fat and catch us up with all going on with his guitar life AND what the guitar student Yoots aparently think about our fav 5 note scales! lol No Tom this week, Jake and Dan are in contorl with a remote Beebs briefly chiming in from Portland Oregon.
Sep 25, 2022
169: Being A Guitar Chameleon & Swapping Stylistic Hats
01:01:14
Tom's playing country, Beebs has started choobing and Dan doesn't know where Epsom is. Look what happens when the Dr isn't here!
Sep 09, 2022
168: The Boys Are Back In Town
01:12:50
The lads dust off the rust for a big catchup and (fingers crossed) a proper return to podding.
Feb 17, 2022
167: Where Does Tone Come From? New Steve Vai Album
00:42:58
Well Covid has now done a clean sweep on the TGH boys, with everyone now having had it! So Dan is away whilst Tom, Jake and Beebs reunite to discuss the “Tonewoods” issue. This recently cropped up again due to a fascinating youtube series by James Lil.
Tom also discusses his upcoming live masterclasses and they all chew over Steve Vai’s new album “Inviolate”
In this week's extended Patreon edit: The guys discuss latin/boss comping patterns and legato phrasing ideas.
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Beebee is awol (jetlag, covid, excuses, excuses), so the Quayle, Smith, Willson power trio hold the pod fort.
There’s some discussion of the new Ibanez AZES models before a big ass deep dive into vibrato and tone production.
Patreon Extra minutes: Dan might be bored with his own playing, and are you not playing what you’re hearing?
If you enjoy the show please consider supporting the podcast over onPatreon, where you can get some fantastic extra TGHP content! You can also now pick up t-shirts, mugs and other merch from our TeeSpringstore.