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Episode 12 – (Part 4 of 4) Interview With Hollywood Film Composer Hummie Mann.

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Ged Brockie
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Moving To Seattle, Creating The PNW Film Scoring Programme, Getting An(other) Education …

Hummie Mann

Hummie wraps up this four part interview discussing his move to Seattle, the first beginnings of the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program. He also talks about how he met Barbara Streisand under a huge last minute orchestration gig! His relationship and work with Jerry Goldsmith and finally his current film projects.

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Episode 11 – (Part 3 of 4) Interview With Hollywood Film Composer Hummie Mann.

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Ged Brockie
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Working As An Orchestrator Then Composer In Hollywood.

Hummie Mann

Moving to L.A. is quite easy, finding work is quite hard. Hummie discusses how he managed to break into the L.A. scene. The early successes, working as an orchestrator and producer on major movies. Finally he discusses breaking into composing for film, the work, people and personalities within Hollywood.

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Episode 10 – (Part 2 of 4) Interview With Hollywood Film Composer Hummie Mann

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Ged Brockie
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Hummie Mann At Berklee College & Finding Work …

hummie mann composer

After discovering he had a talent for music, Hummie tells how he eventually found his way to Berklee College of music. Berklee was an exciting time and prepared Hummie for his eventual movement into finding work as a musician.

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Review Of Bill Frisell Transcriptions By Jan Jakut

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Ged Brockie
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Bill Frisell Solo Guitar Arrangements For Jazzers

Bill Frisell – The Marmite Guitarist?

Bill Frisell is one of those guitarists that you either love or hate judging by comments on social media by some detractors. We are firmly in the camp of loving the guitarist’s work. Furthermore, we were delighted to hear that a young guitarists from Seattle, Washington State, USA Jan Jakut has created a line on transcriptions of Bill’s solo work on Youtube for review.

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Episode 9 – (Part 1 of 4) Interview With Hollywood Film Composer Hummie Mann.

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Ged Brockie
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Hummie Mann – Very Much Alive And Loving it!

From his work with Mel Brooks, Marc Shaiman, James Newton Howard double Emmy winning composer Hummie Mann has achieved a huge amount within his musical life and career. In this serialised podcast interview, Hummie discusses everything from early beginnings through to working with some of the biggest names in American film music.

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Episode 8 – Interview With JamStack Creator Chris Prendergast.

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Ged Brockie
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JamStack … The Most Amazing New Amplification Product In Years!

Jamstack creator Chris Prendergast

Chris Prendergast is the inventor of a new portable guitar amplifier that attaches onto the vast majority of electric guitars. Working with your smartphone it’s a guitarists dream. Funded via an Indiegogo campaign, it’s funding from guitarists around the world has been simply overwhelming. In this podcast GMI talks to Chris about the idea of JamStack, it’s development and his hopes for the future.

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Episode 7 – We Need To Talk About Improvisation.

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Ged Brockie
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A Talk About Improvisation & How You Can Develop Your Creativity.

talk about improvisation

Learning to improvise is the Holy Grail for a most musicians. For some, however, it’s a never ending source of frustration. If you work hard on your technique, how can you then transform this into improvisations that you feel are from the heart and not just a bunch of pre-learned lick ideas. In this podcast, GMI founder Ged Brockie discusses improvisation and how you can develop it within your musical life.

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Episode 6 – Interview With Music Producer Calum Malcolm.

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Ged Brockie
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Calum Malcolm Has Recorded Some Of The Biggest Names In Music. Hear What He Has To Say About Music, Tech., Education & More.

Calum Malcolm
Calum Malcolm is without doubt one of the finest recording engineers/producers in the world today. From his work with “The Blue Nile”, to “Fish”, Mark Knopfler, Aly Bain, his numerous orchestral recordings and more, Calum’s thoughts on the recording industry, technology, education and the future of recording need to be listened to.

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Episode 5 – Interview With Joseph Alexander Founder Of Fundamental Changes.

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Ged Brockie
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Joseph Alexander Of Fundamental Changes – The Guitarist Who’s Sold 300,000 Guitar Books!

Joseph Alexander with Brian May

Joseph Alexander, the founder of Fundamental Changes is an amazing person and not only because he has sold a million dollars of guitar books. He is amazing because he found a gap in a market using new publishing technology and worked tirelessly to create a new way of reaching guitar players around the world. Joseph is now a regular speaker for Amazon events as he explains and helps others understand his business, work and music ethos. In this our fifth podcast, Ged Brockie discusses Joseph’s musical background, training and how he built up this business from nothing. Joseph also discusses where he sees things going in the future as well as offering a shout out to talent around the world to get on board with Fundamental Changes.

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Episode 4 – Interview With Classical Guitar Maestro Phillip Thorne MBE.

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Ged Brockie
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Phillip Thorne MBE Discusses His Life Of Guitar & Music

Phillip Thorne MBE is one of Scotland’s most significant guitar players of the last forty years and not just within the realm of classical guitar. His commissioning of new music for guitar and orchestra, his work within the field of performance and education have been a beacon of light for a generation of players to follow, emulate and in Phillip’s own works “better”. In this candid interview, Phillip discusses his life from his first exposure to music, through the “performance years” as well as guitar competitions, classical guitar education and more.

Phillip Thorne
Phillip Thorne in rehearsal of a new guitar concerto by John Maxwell Geddes. The composer is conducting.
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