S1E1 - Competitions: Are they good for guitar and music?

Adam and Tim converse about their experiences in guitar competitions and its effect on their playing and outlook on playing.

3 years ago

Episode Notes

In today's episode we eventually get into the topic of "music competitions". Are they good? What's good about them? Or not? And the fear....oh the fear. We mention a lot of great guitar players names throughout the episode, be sure to check them out. Among them include classical players like Xavier Jara, Marcin Dylla, Tengyue Zhang, David Russell, Sharon Isbin, the other other John Williams and jazz players such as Pat Metheny, Max Light, John Scofield... plus other players like the great Michael Manring, Pierre Bensusan, Michael Hedges, and some guy named Steve Vai??? (whoever that is) More to come, we hope to do this weekly, we're still figuring out the logistics. We'll get the video to Youtube and the Audio to your favorite Podcast host/players. What will we talk about next week? Let us know what you want to hear! Cheers! Topics Today include: 1.) Introduction 2.) Comments on the current landscape (such as Instagram) 3.) Adam brings up GFA (Guitar Foundation of America) Competition Winners and we start to discuss whether it is good or bad for music/guitar? 4.) As we wrap we get a little bit into one of Tim and Adam's biggest pet peeves, having excuses for not learning the notes on the fretboard.