Guitar Smarts

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we conclude our conversation on the best mods you can do to your guitars to make them better! Rate and Review the Guitar Smarts podcast here: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/guitar-smarts-1580199 (On the right hand side, press the button that says 'Rate this Podcast') https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podc...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! This week we give you part 1 of our Guitar Modifications conversation.  There are many  things you can do to add incremental capability to your guitar, from simple guitar string choice to rewiring. We take a look at the best ways to add more tone to your guitar! Rate and Review the Guitar Smarts podcast here: h...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Buying a used guitar can be a difficult process, especially when it involves you parting ways with lots of your hard earned cash. What can you do to be more prepared, better informed and increasingly confident about the decision you make? This week, Kiran & Matt discuss the process of buying used guitars and the steps yo...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back Guitar Smarts listeners! Here in the UK, Covid restrictions are beginning to lift and gigging is back on the agenda! The prospect had us both thinking, what have been our best and worst gigging experiences over our years of gigging?  Remember to please subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts, and come to...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! This week Kiran and Matt are talking about the songs that changed or affected their guitar playing the most throughout their lives as guitarists. What songs can you think of that you consider to be watershed moments in your playing career? Remember to please subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts, and c...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! This week the boys are lamenting about a guitarists worst enemy and best friend, Gear Acquisition Syndrome! Why is it that guitarists are never happy with what they have, and are always trying to find a reason to spend more and more on equipment that they may or may not need? This week we try and find out! Reme...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! If you are new to the podcast and haven't listened to us yet, this is the episode to listen too. Here you will find some of the best bits of the first 20 episodes, where we introduce ourselves, talk about our influences, guitars, desert island rigs, challenge each other, speak to musicians and genuine rock stars too!  R...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! The Guitar Smarts team are incredibly happy to share with you our conversation with British Blues Rock Giant-to-be, Matt Long.  Matt is the front man and leader of international touring blues rock powerhouse Catfish, who are making waves on the music scene in the UK and Europe. Matt joins us after winning the 2021 UK Blues A...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week, Matt & Kiran scrape through the deepest depths of their gigging experience as non-pro musicians to bring you the definitive Boy Scouts guide to gigging! Learn everything you need to know to be prepared for your weekend gig, from the tools you should carry with you to the gig, the the planning and preparation y...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Guitar Smarts are once again proud and happy to be joined by the immensely talented and hard-working Damiain Lodrick. If you are a musician who enjoys playing live but isn't ready to make the step to joining a band, or even in a band but not gigging enough, you probably have been to a Jam night at a local pub. This week...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week, Kiran and Matt are joined by Mat Lake, one of the hardest working and most in-demand guitar teachers in the South East of the UK. Mat talks us through his early life as a student, how he got into teaching guitar and how he manages his bursting diary of guitar related activities such as teaching in schools, private...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! This week we are discussing our guitar idols and influences, who they are and why they mean so much to them as guitarists. Also, we have a fairly sizeable rant and discussion about the new Gibson Murphy Lab guitars.  What do you think about them?   Remember to please subscribe wherever you listen to your podcas...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! This week Guitar Smarts brings you the continuation of our Pedal Boards Basics discussion and this time we actually do tell you what the mystery pedal is that Kiran has fallen head over heels in love with!  Remember to please subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts, and come to see us on our social media...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Everyone loves guitar pedals, and we are no exception to that. Maybe you've never really built a proper pedal board before or you find it difficult to get a good sound from your pedals - maybe you need to build a board that carries all your pedals, keeps them powered and connected and maintains consistency in your sound...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Kiran & Matt are delighted to welcome Damiain Lodrick as a guest on the Guitar Smarts podcast. Damiain has lived the dream as a working musician and has literally travelled the world as a music student, studio engineer, multi-instrumentalist and musical director of his own outfit, The Damiain Lodrick band. Damiain joins...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we discuss Matt's efforts to setup and upgrade his Strat at home, and how much difference it made to the playability. We also have a chat about guitar strings and using them as a tone shaping tool.  Remember to please subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts, and come to see us on our social media channe...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings Guitar Smarts listeners! So here is the deal: You’ve got a covers gig at a local wedding and you need to put a band together. Your phonebook is an endless collection of the world’s finest session musicians & famous rock stars. All of them owe you a favour, and will say yes to the gig. Who do you call? Join Matt...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings Guitar Smarts listeners! This week, Kiran and Matt are talking about guitar practice, setting goals for getting better at playing guitar, reminiscing about past teachers and who our favourite online guitar personalities are.  Do you need a guitar teacher, is it good to have a defined practice schedule and how do yo...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings Guitar Smarts listeners! This week Kiran and Matt are competing in the £300 Gigging Guitar challenge.  Here is the rub: You've just had a tax rebate to the tune of £4,500! Unfortunately, the car needed an MOT, the lounge needed new carpets and there was a water leak under the orangery. After all is fixed and a...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings lovely listeners! Thanks for coming along. This week Matt & Kiran are speaking to old bandmate and friend, Andy Rudd. Andy was the front man and band leader for South East UK band Roadrunner blues for more than 20 years. During his time fronting the band  he learned all the best ways to run a covers act whilst...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Whether you are a seasoned pro guitarist or a bedroom rock star, Guitar Smarts resident guitar health guru Kiran Amliwala believes that there are 8 things every guitarist should be able to do to maintain the playability and health of their guitars. Some are simple, some more complex, but all are essential.   This week we rou...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Whether you are a seasoned pro guitarist or a bedroom rock star, Guitar Smarts resident guitar health guru Kiran Amliwala believes that there are 8 things you should be able to do to maintain the playability and health of your guitars.    In Part 1, we look at the changing the strings and fretboard/neck care. If you need any...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings Guitarist Friends! This week we shoot the breeze over all things guitar, particularly the things on our mind right not such as Kiran's ever swelling guitar collection and struggles with GAS, Matt's neglect of his Fender Strat and it's urgent maintenance needs and also his inherent inability to spend...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings once again! Remember that Desert Island challenge from last week? This is part 2, and this week we select our pedals, amps, albums and wildcards! This was great fun, and recommend you do this yourself! Remember, nothing you own already is allowed! Remember to subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts...

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings! This week Kiran and Matt have challenged themselves to define their desert island rig of choice, with a few extras thrown in. This wasn't an easy task, but goodness me was it fun! This is part 1 of a two part topic, so look out next week for part 2. Remember to subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to...