137: Defending 3 Note Per String? 4ths Tuning, Musical Identity (With Special Guest Ant Law)

Ant Law returns, joining Tom, Beebs and Jake. They discuss Ant’s recent adventures before delving into 4ths tuning (Ant tunes in 4ths, but not the same as TQ), juggling multiple musical identities, and a passionate re-evaluation of the “3 note per string” approach, yields surprising conclusions.

In the Patreon aftershow the guys chew the fat and briefly review Petrucci’s new album, Terminal Velocity. Ant has also very kindly given us charts and backing tracks to his latest album for you guys to download, log into Patreon to see them.

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Episode Links

TGHP - Ep 58 - Previous AL Episode

https://www.antlaw.co.uk/

Ant On Bandcamp

Ant Instagram

136: Fretboard Navigation & Melodic Minor

Beebee, Jake and Dan delve deep into the bowels of melodic minor harmony, exploring the challenges it can pose on the guitar fretboard.

Other news: Jake celebrates the release of his new JTC course ‘Fretboard Navigation’ & Beebee acquires a new imac and...a Rooster.

In the Patreon aftershow the guys play more examples on guitar and Jake makes a discovery.

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Episode Links

Fretboard Navigation - Jake Willson's NEW JTC Course

Tom’s Melodic Minor Tutorial

135: John Petrucci Interview - New Solo Album, Practicing, Legato Styles & Tone Crafting

The Trooch, the whole Trooch and nothing but the Trooch.

This week TGHP guys are joined by the almighty progressive shred legend himself, John Petrucci!! (can you tell we’re excited about this one?)

They discuss John’s soon to be released second solo album “Terminal Velocity” and the freshly released title track. Topics include the background to the writing, recording and production process, crafting guitar tones, reuniting with Mike Portnoy, and how everything was accomplished during the pandemic.

Of course it wouldn’t be an episode of TGHP without some serious nerding out, and so we get John’s take on the practise themes of late, and how his practise, development and maintenance has changed over the years since the Rock Discipline instructional.

Other topics include different approaches to legato, Berklee, learning and drawing from diverse styles and getting yelled at for rocking the jazz department too hard! 😂

This is peak podding fun for us, and really hope you all enjoy listening!

The Patreon aftershow includes some brief pre/post show chat with John, and all the usual bants and podmin from the boys.

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John’s Links

https://johnpetrucci.com/

Pre-Order “Terminal Velocity” Now

Stream "Suspended Animation" (John's First Solo Album) Now!

John Petrucci Guitar Universe Camp 2021

JP on Instagram

Dream Theater

Soy Christmas

134: Ear Training Revisited - Getting Results

The boys explain the power of the functional method in context and also make some new discoveries about 4ths tuning and the power for connecting the visual and aural nature of the instrument. There’s also more discussion on the ‘reactive ear training’ method and executive producers can download the practise pack resource when logged into Patreon.

In other news Beebee fights Virgin Media and Tom celebrates a clear c19 test with a new amp.

In this week’s Patreon bonus there’s an extended discussion on solfege, Tom criticises Beebs’ childhood TV history and they argue which 80’s semi-sentient crime-fighting-automotive-vehicular-sidekick was best.

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Episode Links

Functional Ear Trainer (Android)

Funtoinal Ear Trainer (iOS)

Functional Ear Trainer (Desktop)

133: Leon Todd, Fractal FM3 Finally Arrives & Amp Modelling Advice

Beebee’s FM3 has finally arrived, so who better to talk to about modelling and rubbery slippage than Leon Todd, the Ragdoll axe slinger and YouTube Fractal Audio guru!

The guys discuss Leon’s musical background, approach to playing, amp modelling, his band Ragdoll, playing with conviction and get some great tips on moving into the digital world for live use in particular. And yes...rubbery slippage returns.

In the extended Patreon edition of this episode there is follow up on progress using the Functional Ear Trainer app, and how the ear training is going more broadly, in addition to some reminiscing over skateboarding and video games!

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Episode Links

Leon Todd - YouTube

Ragdoll On Bandcamp

Leon On Instagram