Episode 30 – Tim Clarke of Pitch Pilot

Pitch Pilot – Inventor Tim Clarke Discusses New Invention For Guitar Pitch Pilot, Niagara Falls and Log Cabins.

Tim Clarke's Log Cabin Pitch Pilot

Tim Clarke’s Log Cabin, inventor of Pitch PilotAbove you can see the log cabin that Tim Clarke, inventor of Pitch Pilot lives in. Tim is a musician who has a long line of inventions and ideas. In this episode, Ged Brockie from GMI discusses Pitch Pilot, Tim’s latest invention that helps guitarists bend individual strings on guitars. It’s hard bringing new ideas to the market and Tim discusses the lows and highs of the Pitch Perfect product.

Living in a log cabin (above) in Canada, Tim needed to travel to undertake this interview which he gave near Niagara falls.

Episode 29 – Richard Kaiser of Wikiloops

Wikiloops – Richard Kaiser on Creating an online community of shared compositions and friendships.

Richard Kaiser

Wikiloops was created by Richard Kaiser and is now seven years old. In that time Wikiloops has built up a huge online community of musicians from around the world. Creating new music in a “ping pong” fashion where creativity is shared. In this GMI podcast episode, Ged Brockie speaks to Richard about Wikiloops, why he created it and the trials and tribulations of running a burgeoning website (as well as all the good stuff too!).

Episode 28 – Adam Klosowiak of KLOS Guitars

KLOS Guitars Is Run By Adam Klosowiak and His Brother Ian. Find Out How They Have Redefined The Travel Guitar Market.

KLOS Guitars

There was a time when guitars were only made from wood, but those days have long gone. Now there are many materials used, but when it comes to dealing with extremes carbon fibre has to be one of the most durable materials yet. Adam Klosowiak of KLOS Guitars tells all in this incredible journey of two young brothers and their bid to dominate the travel guitar market.

Guitar & Music Institute Online Shop

The GMI – Guitar & Music Institute Online Shop – A Growing Range Of Guitar Products

GMI online guitar shop

The GMI – Guitar & Music Institute Online Shop has been active now for around eight months. The shop is actually held on a seperate website and we thought long and hard about opening a separate entity, but we are glad we did. Read on to find out why.

Episode 27 – Terry Wollman – Guitarist, Composer, Musical Director

Terry Wollman Has Worked With Some Of The Biggest Names In The Music Industry – Here He Talks Music, Career, And His Latest Release

Terry Wollman with Tom-Jones
Terry Wollman with Tom-Jones

How many people get the opportunity to work with musicians of the stature of Stevie Wonder, Michael McDonald, Billy Preston, The 5th Dimension, Wilson Phillips, Al Jarreau, Joan Baez, Joe Walsh, Keb’ Mo’, Gerald Albright and Eartha Kitt and that’s just a small selection by the way! The answer is not many, but Terry Wallman has and in this podcast interview with GMI – Guitar & Music Institute founder Ged Brockie, Terry talks about his musical career, work and his latest musical release.

GMI Tutor Gary Clinton Signed To Chicago Music Publisher

Gary Clinton Puts Pen To Paper Re Music Contract

Gary Clinton Flux Velociraptor

Gary Clinton, one of GMI – Guitar & Music Institute’s main tutors has been signed to Chicago based publishing company Music Of The Sea. We look at Gary’s current activities including his new band EP with Flux Velociraptor and his impending new videos for guitarists around the world with GMI.

Episode 26 – Claudio Pagelli of Pagelli Guitars

Claudio Pagelli One Half Of The Team That Creates Some Of The Finest Handmade Guitars In The World

Claudio Pagelli of Pagelli Guitars

Claudio Pagelli and his wife Claudia create beautiful guitars that can be seen as works of art in their own right. Although Pagelli Guitars will need no introduction for the majority of archtop and guitar enthusiasts/players, for the few people out there who have not come across Pagelli Guitars stunning designs, you are in for a treat.

GMI – Guitar & Music Institute leader Ged Brockie in discussion with Claudio Pagelli.

Guitar Practiced Perfectly – Does Anyone Really Do It?

What Does Guitar Practiced Perfectly Really Mean?

guitar practiced perfectly

We are always looking for ways to take improve our guitar playing skills. The obvious way to improve as a guitar player is to play a lot more, but does playing more actually increase our musicality and ability to play in a more meaningful way?

Episode 25 – Musician’s Moving Online 3 – Interview With Thomas Berglund

Musician’s Moving Online 3 – Jazz Fusion Guitarist Thomas Berglund Keeping It Real!

Thomas Berglund

 

 

Thomas is one of Sweden’s best known guitar players and in the interview that follows, he talks about balancing working online with playing live. He also discusses how he came to be online, the challenges inherent in creating content for guitar players around the world and the many benefits gained by doing so.

Blank Guitar Chord Boxes & TAB Books

Ever Popular Blank Guitar Chord Boxes & TAB Books From GMI

blank guitar chord boxes

GMI continues to build it’s publication stock with the latest book Scales You Can Use! selling in great numbers which is great to see but it’s blank guitar chord boxes and TAB books that sell like hotcakes! When we decided to launch a line of books that were not educational, but support based we did not think much about it. As usual, this is when you are surprised by the outcome.

Blank Guitar Chord Boxes (Diagrams)

There is not really that much to say about this book other than it says what it does on the tin! It’s a book which gives you one hundred pages of blank chord diagrams with sixteen well spaced boxes of five frets for each box.

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You can use this book to keep all your ideas re chords, scales and arpeggios in one handy place, no more endless scraps of paper messing up your room or house. No more concepts that you’re working on being lost or thrown out.

So, if you are looking for a handy book to keep the clutter down to a minimum and to keep all your guitar ideas in one place, this has to be a winner! Check out our blank guitar chord boxes book which is very competitively priced.

Guitar TAB Notebook

The second book that we have come up with for helping guitarists out is another simple concept. The book again comprises of one hundred pages and this time it’s just plain TAB. When we first created this book we didn’t think that it would be that popular. However, just like the blank guitar chord boxes publication how wrong could we be! This has proved every bit as useful and guitarists from around the world have been buying it up in increasing numbers.

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The book includes a treble clef staff and underneath a six string TAB for all your ideas. The only barlines that exist are at the end of each staff system so you can cut up the staff line in as many bars as you wish.

Other Helpful Books Coming Soon From GMI

We are now looking at bringing out a practice diary for instrumentalists which will enable guitarists and musicians of any instrument a sound way to record their practice routines. It’s as much to do with knowing what you are not practising as much as what you are.

For further reading on the publications currently available from GMI – Guitar & Music Institute, please check out our guitar books for sale section. Note, all our guitar publications are available to purchase from Amazon and all good online retailers. We also offer low cost guitar PDF download publications from the Guitar & Music Institute online store.