Podcasts

The GMI – Guitar & Music Institute podcasts brings interviews from some of the best guitar professionals in the world. We also create podcast guitar lessons and music lessons as well as gear reviews & more.

Learn and find out more from the best in the industry with host Ged Brockie, the creator of GMI – Guitar & Music Institute.

Episode 42 – Phil Curran: Breaking Into & Creating A Career As A Composer In Film & TV

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Phil Curran Film & TV Composer
Many Are Called....Few Are Chosen! Many Would Love A Career As A Composer In Film & TV But Few Actually Make It. This Podcast Features Composer Phil Curran Who Has Broken Into This Magical Musical World. Have you ever listened to the music at the movies or when watching a TV show and thought "I'd love to do that"...well so...

Episode 41 – Musicians Living In Lockdown with Honza Kourimsky

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Guitar podcast
We are just starting to come out of one of the strangest times that any of us will possibly ever face with the Covid 19 pandemic. Ged Brockie of GMI talks with up and coming guitar maestro Honza Kourimsky about being a musician in these lock down days. Most people agree that it is a hard life being a...

Episode 40 – Creating a Community Guitar group with Chris Dixon

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Guitar podcast Episode 40
Have you ever considered or even thought about community guitar groups? In this podcast, Chris Dixon explains his journey to creating more than just a one on one teaching practice. Ever felt that one to one tuition, whilst the best way to teach guitar, or indeed any instrument is a bit...well, sort of isolated? Would it not be great...

Episode 39 – Justin Dolezy of Neck Diagrams

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Neck Diagrams 2
Ged Brockie Of GMI Discusses The Incredible Piece Of Guitar Software That No Guitarist Should Be Without Called "Neck Diagrams" With It's Creator Justin Dolezy. We've all done it. Grabbed and scribbled down a bunch of lines and created our own chord boxes to then remember the latest and best chord, scale or arpeggio. Perhaps it was a bunch...

Episode 38 – Jamie Akers Renaissance Man

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Lute player Jamie Akers podcast
Jamie Akers Has Realised A Dazzling Career As A Multi-Instrumentalist Of Historical Stringed Instruments Including Early 19th Century Guitars, Lutes and The Amazing Theorbo. Ged Brockie Of GMI Find Out More About This Fascinating Musician & His Instruments. Once the instrument of choice for those with plucked string leaning, the Lute is now a distant second to the guitar...

Episode 37 – Haftor Medboe of Copperfly Records

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Haftor Medboe podcast
Haftor Medboe is a highly regarded Scottish based composer, guitarist and educator. In this podcast interview, Ged Brockie of GMI discusses these areas of his work but also finds out about his new music label, Copperfly. Anyone who has had any dealings with the Scottish jazz scene will no doubt have come across Haftor Medboe. Haftor has been at...

Episode 36 – Jazz Guitarist Tom Lippincott

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Jazz Guitar Tom Lippincott
Tom Lippincott is a highly respected professional guitarist based in Florida, USA. This interview was meant to be broad ranging, however, Tom's eight string guitar (yes you read that correctly) took up almost the entire show! One thing that non-musicians should understand is that the world is full of great musicians, however, very few can actually claim to make...

Episode 35 – Interview with Nate Savage of Guitareo

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Guitareo Nate Savage podcast
It's a fast changing world out there and the effects of the digital revolution are all around. In the world of guitar there are many new success stories, one of which is Guitareo led by guitarist Nate Savage. There is a lot of choice out there when it comes to learning to play guitar, however, some website and offerings...

Episode 34 – Interview Rewind & Update With Andy Squires

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TercelVoice Andy Squires
Download the Tercelvoice Skate video Teaser - just 6.2 MegDownload In September 2017, Andy Squires was interviewed for GMI's "Musician's Moving Online" series (episode 20) as Andy planned the release of his first album under the name TercelVoice. Fifteen months later, we hear how his first release has fared and what advice he has for other singer songwriters. If you are...

Episode 33 – Interview With LEAP Inventor Paul Holcomb

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Paul Holcomb
Paul Holcomb and his new concept for guitar pick players - LEAP the Ergonomic Guitar Pick.   When Paul Holcomb decided to revisit guitar playing he was frustrated in part by using a plectrum. With a background in design, Paul decided it was time to do something about it and the LEAP concept was born. Almost space aged in design, Paul...