Guitar Smarts

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome Back! This week on the podcast we are celebrating everything female with a list of our favourite ever female guitarists. Some of the most important contributions in the guitar world have come from incredibly talented and capable women who continue to create and inspire the next generation of guitarists, so here we ar...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we look at some of the pre-NAMM news nuggets dropped by manufacturers to see what exciting new products and developments are going to soon be available. We also discuss Matt's process upgrading and improving his Les Paul. What have you been up to in the last few weeks? Come and let us know at the Guitar Geek H...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week, we ask ourselves one of the most asked questions in the history of guitar playing - does an expensive guitar make you play better? This may not be as straightforward as you think, an inexpensive guitar setup perfectly will feel better to play than an expensive guitar that has been neglected and left to warp, bend...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week, Kiran and Matt take a look at the recently released list of top selling guitars, amps and pedals as released by Reverb.com to see if we could see any interesting surprises. Turns out the list does indeed have some interesting conversation points, but many of us will be less than surprised to know which guitar came...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! The final episode of our 3 part journey to fine tuning your guitar action like a pro guitar tech! This week we take a look at what you can do to make sure your top nut is properly installed and setup, how to measure it and how to adjust it. For links to all our important stuff, check out our LinkTree... https://linktr.ee/gui...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we continue our 3 part look at the best way to fine tune your action on your guitar. Last week Kiran took us on a deep dive through adjusting the truss rod, this is the device in the the guitar neck that allows us to set the relief, or curvature of the next, allowing enough space for the strings to vibrate above th...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! This week we discuss recent gigs, a pending rig change for Matt that will open up a plethora of new possibilities, Kiran's new pedal board configuration following his delivery from Santa, and most importantly, Kiran puts his Guitar Tech hat on and talks us through the proper process for adjusting your trus...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings! This week, we get together for the first time in 2023 to discus various things including what the man in the red jacket and white beard brought us, some near-miss Guitar Safari action from Kiran and of course we talk about the key habits we want to instil in our playing in 2023. For links to all our important stuf...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings! Welcome to the final episode of the year 2022. This week we are talking about the past year gone by and the new year ahead of us. We think back and talk about he best new gear of 2022, money we have spent, new songs we have learned, Gigs we’ve been to and what we want and hope for in 2023. Come and see us on the G...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Seasons Greetings! We are looking forward to a restful and cosy Christmas this year, and to kick it off we are discussing all the cool new things we want Santa to bring us this Christmas, and that maybe should be on your Christmas list this year too! For links to all our important stuff, check out our LinkTree... https://lin...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we close out on our final thoughts from the London 2022 International Guitar show and Kiran laments on a missed opportunity to buy a guitar he connected with just moments before the show closed its doors! Also this week, Kiran gives us his field report, after finally getting a chance to play a brand new PRS Silver...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we give you our very first ever face to face recording! Kiran and Matt visited the 2022 London International Guitar Show to see the latest from the UK's (and further afield) finest guitar stores, luthiers, distributors and other... We saw some £300K Gibson Les Paul's, and some of the newest in inexpensive...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back to the podcast! This week Kiran and Matt discuss the King King show they attended at the Southampton venue the 1865 on the 20th October. King King are an utterly superb rock band, and you should check them out, they may just be the best live act in the UK right now in their genre. Visit them at their website her...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Following on from episode #63, this week Kiran and Matt look at more recent history to choose guitar riffs that may just go on to be the classic guitar riffs of the future.  For links to all our important stuff, check out our LinkTree... https://linktr.ee/guitarsmarts https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5eSyZxq6dxDXWp8yQ1cpzq?...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back to the show! This week, we talk about some of the finest ever classic guitar riffs to grace our ears. Enjoy this episode, you might just hear of a new guitar riff that you didn't know about before! You can find a Spotify Playlist of the Riffs we chose in the Linktree below. For links to all our important st...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Boutique pedal makers from all over the world have been having huge success for many year and continue to do so, but with the closure of Fulltone Pedals, one of the originals in the market, does this indicate that the time for boutique pedals has come to an end? We discuss this, and also we talk about the next 3 things we wa...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! We are back and this week we are talking all about our favourite YouTube channels and creators, why we love them and why you MUST follow them too. For links to all our important stuff, check out our LinkTree... https://linktr.ee/guitarsmarts Remember to please subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts, and come to see u...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings listeners! Have you ever felt like your guitar playing is stuck somewhere, unable to improve or get better, and lacking the motivation and drive to push it in the right direction? What have you done about it? How do you deal with a lack of motivation and what can you do to help put the train back on the rails? For...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! After our recent episode talking about why you should join a band, we had a great question from Josh Chudley on Facebook, asking us HOW you join a band. It's easier said than done, however if you want to increase your chances of getting a spot in a band or finding a band who are looking for someone like you, then listen...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! We all love playing guitar - whether that's jamming to tracks, along with songs we love or practicing licks BUT nothing quite makes you a better musician more than joining a band and playing with PEOPLE! That's just one reason to join a band, listen in for more. For links to all our important stuff, check out our L...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings Guitar Smarts listeners! Have you ever had to quickly learn a song you didn't know for a gig at short notice? If you have, you'll know how stressful it can be getting familiar with new music quickly enough to play it confidently. This week we talk about our experiences with this problem, and how we deal w...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back to the show! This week we are spending more fake money in a dreamland of Guitar Stores as we talk about how we would spend £5K if we had to buy a full gigging Guitar Rig. How would you do it? For links to all our important stuff, check out our LinkTree... https://linktr.ee/guitarsmarts Remember to please subscri...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! This week, Kiran and Matt are debating the age old question, is Vintage Gear really better than modern  or do we fetishize the use of old equipment because of it's heritage and history?  Objectively speaking, what is truly the best? Remember to please subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts, and com...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings Guitar Smarts listeners! Welcome back to the show and thanks for sticking with us. This week, we celebrate a rare event - MATT Has bought a new guitar! In fact, he has bought two. Come an listen to the lowdown on what happened and what the guitars were! Remember to please subscribe wherever you listen to your podca...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings from the Guitar Smarts Team! This week, Kiran and Matt are pretending that their pockets are flush with about $1000 or about £800 of cash, and they need to put together a rig for their first ever pub gig. Remember to please subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts, and come to see us on our social media chann...