Free Content
Stephan Forte speaks about his change from Lag to Ibanez, his practice and his projects for 2014
Thursday, 07 November 2013
Support the show: get the Backstage Pass!
The full video interview is available in this article.
Stéphan Forté was at the Festival Guitare Issoudun in the middle of France for a masterclass with his usual bass player Franck Hermanny, I jumped on the opportunity to do a video interview with him.
Subjects discussed during the interview
+ His recent change of guitars from Lag to Ibanez
+ The specs of the Premium Ibanez he uses at the moment
+ The details on the future custom guitar with Ibanez
+ His practice philosophy
+ How he works on the instrument
+ His projects for
- Published in Interviews, News
Free Content
Guitar Masterclass: learn popular songs on the guitar with your iPhone/iPad
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
We lost count of the smartphone/tablet applications that promise to teach you guitar. Unfortunately for many of them , the promise is far from being held. With Guitar Masterclass , it is a more pragmatic approach: learn to play the guitar popular songs.
The application does not promise you you will play like a god in 10 lessons or improvise like an old jazzman in 2 days , no. It shows you how to play in video a popular song on the guitar from beginning to end .
- Published in Improve your playing, Interviews, News
Free Content
Video chronicle with news and interviews from Richie Kotzen, Sheehan and Bibb
Monday, 14 October 2013
Here's a video chronicle in a magazine format packed with news, mini gear reviews and interviews from Richie Kotzen, Billy Sheehan who were in Paris for the european tour of the Winery Dogs and Eric Bibb, a great bluesman who is about to release a superb album called Jericho Road.
Summary
News from The Guitar Channel
Giveaway to win the great book from Jean-Pierre Danel The Legend of the Fender Stratocaster
Mini gear reviews of picks : the Chicken Picks and the ergonomic Niglo
Eric Bibb interview (short version) - The long version is here for the Backstage pass owners
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
- Published in Interviews, News
Free Content
Billy Sheehan interview: the legendary bass sound with the Winery Dogs
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Here's the short version of the Billy Sheehan interview done when he was in Paris for the european tour of the Winery Dogs (Richie Kotzen on guitar and lead vocal, Mike Portnoy on drums) on Sept. 15th 2013.
- Published in Interviews, News
Free Content
Richie Kotzen interview: the magical voice and guitar for the Winery Dogs
Monday, 07 October 2013
Support the show: get the Backstage Pass!
Here's the short version of the Richie Kotzen interview done when he was in Paris for the european tour of the Winery Dogs (Billy Sheehan on bass, Mike Portnoy on drums) on Sept. 15th 2013.
- Published in Interviews, News
In order to wait until the full soundseeing, here's a video teaser of the Riff Shooter pedal that Judge Fredd conceived in collaboration with JMB Experience. I only had the time to play with it for a short while but I can assure you it sounds awesome. I can't wait to get a unit to review it.
As the name Riff Shooter kind of implies, this pedal is an overdrive. The possibility to voice the sounds is pretty big yet it remains very easy to operate. The "Shoot" switch allows to turn on and off the pedal.
Free Content
Frankenstrat Project – Body prepared for paint and neck varnished
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Here's an update on the Frankenstrat Project as I received some pics from the Patrick Querleux who has just finished the preparation on the body and the varnish on the neck.
Here's the bonus for episode #211 with David Wallimann interview : Dorian Floyd, a great free backing track to practice your Dorian mode and minor blues scale.
- Published in Improve your playing, News
Free Content
David Wallimann interview: finally discover the modes in a clear book
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
I found David Wallimann through his awesome YouTube channel so when I heard about his excellent book Guitar Methods Made Easy I contacted him to organize an interview. You will discover in this interview how he wrote his book, how he developed his approach of modes and many other things.
At one point or another in their learning life all the guitar players are exposed to modes without always understanding everything and above all without actually integrating all the wealth that they have in their playing, at least that was my case.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
- Published in Interviews, News
Free Content
Gus G interview, Ozzy Osbourne and Firewind: high energy guitar playing
Sunday, 25 August 2013
Here's some heavy rock with this Gus G interview. This guitar player from Greece not only plays with none other than Ozzy Osbourne but also fronts his own band Firewind.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
- Published in Interviews, News
I already said several times, there is a lack of women in the guitar community so when the opportunity arises to interview a musician like Ana Popovic class, I jump at the chance.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
- Published in Interviews, News
Free Content
Pedaltrain Mini powered by the Volto: lose the power cable – Review
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Pedaltrain makes some excellent pedalboards (see my review of the PT-2 here), they sent me a Mini model and a Volto battery pack to review. The Volto can power up to 9 pedals and is charged either straight from a wall wart plug or from a USB connector.
As you can see it allows you to have a pedalboard without any wire attached to an outside power source which can be very useful.
Review of the Pedaltrain Volto
What I liked about
The compact format
The ability to power a full pedalboard
The integration with the Pedaltrain products
What I did
Here's a 3 minute Backstage Pass video with all you want to know about it and why you should get one to amplify your passion for the guitar.
- Published in News
In partnership with Jam Track Central, this is the original backing track of "Dance of the Aristocrats" from the album "Culture Clash" after the interview with Guthrie Govan in this episode and Bryan Beller in this one.
Link to the backing track of "Dance of the Aristocrats"
If you want to buy other backing track of Guthrie Jam Track Central, here is a code reduction of 10% for the exclusive use of subscribers Backstage: B7F24-99CB9-F01A5-78BBF-545E7
Enjoy!
Pierre.
- Published in News
Here's an original backing track from Fred Chapellier, great French guitar bluesman, who composed the tune "Gary's Gone" to pay hommage to Gary Moore death in February 2011.
Link to the "Gary's Gone" backing track
Here's a Spotify player to listen to the original version :
Enjoy,
Pierre.
- Published in News
Ranking by download since 2009 (interviews accessible via the Backstage pass)
Popa Chubby interview
Bjorn Berge interview
Paul Gilbert interview
Paul Reed Smith interview
Eric Bibb interview
Nuno Bettencourt interview
Marty Friedman interview
Steve Vai interview
Paul Gilbert interview (2009)
Donal Gallagher interview (Rory's brother)
- Published in News
This was my first going to the Hellfest. I have been hearing about this metal festival for a long time, given the high concentration of guitar players present, I had to cover the festival some day.
- Published in News
Free Content
A special audio message from Guthrie Govan to all The Guitar Channel listeners!
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
As an appetizer for the interview of Guthrie Govan I will publish next month for the release of the second studio album of the Aristocrats, here's a special audio message from Guthrie himself to you :
Guthrie Govan - The Guitar Channel rocks !
- Published in News
Free Content
Frankenstrat Project – Mary Kaye white body by Patrick Querleux (@PatQuerleux)
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Here're some pics taken at Patrick Querleux's workshop last time I went to check on the Frankenstrat Project guitar he is building for me.
- Published in News
Fan of guitar and instagramer? This challenge is for you! The principle is simple: you post a single photo of a guitar on Instagram with the tag #tribegram_guitar and you subscribe to @theguitarchnnl on Instagram.
The best photo (judged by me) will win the box DVD / Live CD The Aristocrats.
- Published in News
Free Content
Heike Matthiesen interview (@gitarra): high class classical guitar playing
Saturday, 01 June 2013
For the second time I had the pleasure of interviewing Heike Matthiesen.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
- Published in Interviews, News
My first contact with Rodney Branigan was through this amazing YouTube video of the song "Body Language" (see below) where he can be seen playing simultaneously a guitar and a mandolin while singing!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
- Published in Interviews, News
The Hellfest festival has become a must for all that concerns heavy music. It takes place West of France in Clisson.This year I think the program is very attractive with some of the biggest names in heavy rock like ZZ Top, Europe, Whitesnake or Def Leppard as well as other bands like Gojira, Korn. In all it's more than 150 groups that will feed the torrent of decibels 21-22-23 June 2013 in Clisson.
For the first time, I'll cover this festival with a Press pass to bring a maximum of picture, audio and video.
- Published in News
This is the setup I use to make video soundseeings for the show. The MOTU Ultralite mk3 interface plays the lead role since it serves both as a preamp for Shure SM58 for vocals for comments and as a mixer for the output of Torpedo CAB Two-Notes.
Note that the camera used is a Lumix GH2 with a 14-42 lens. This camera has a stereo mic stereo input required to make a good sounding video.
Be careful though as this input is very sensitive and is quickly saturated if you are not careful.
Free Content
Guitar blogcasters chat with Guitar Noize, Six String Bliss and Muzicosphere
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Here's a special episode for you with an international conversation among guitar bloggers and podcasters from Australia, the US and France !
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
- Published in Interviews, News
Free Content
Frankenstrat Project – The body, the neck, the vibrato and the luthier
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Here is a series of pictures documenting the evolution of the Frankenstrat Project at the moment where I have the neck and body supplied by EG Solidbody and vibrato provided by Hantug.
I read a long time ago somewhere on a guitar forum that a test to do to check the quality of the couple body / neck was to see if the body would hold to the neck without any screw.
Test result: it holds as you can see in the picture below.
Patrick Querleux, luthier of project inspecting the 3 elements that I brought him.
In the previous article dedicated to Frankenstrat Project, I showed you some pictures where you could see the boards that were to be used by Denis from EG Solidbody to machine the body.
Here are the following steps until the final body and neck.
As a reminder, the purpose of the project is to build a replica as accurate as possible (except for the famous black and white stripes) of the Edward Van Halen guitar that can be seen on the cover of their first album.
Free Content
Glenn Hughes interview about Black Country Communion album Afterglow
Friday, 15 February 2013
Here's a legendary bass player in that episode #185 with Glenn Hughes (aka @glenn_hughes on Twitter) who is currently playing with Black Country Communion with Joe Bonnamassa.
He is not only a great bass player but also a very unique singer with a voice you recognize at the first word of a lyric.
Extracts from "Afterglow" played before the interview :
+ Cry Freedom
+ Afterglow
+ Common Man
+ Crawl
Enjoy,
Pierre.
Enjoyed this episode?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
- Published in Interviews, News
