Podcasts are a great way to stay informed on the guitar world, learn some new skills, and get inspired. There are quite a few folks out there working hard every week to put together quality material. Podcasts are convenient format for getting this material for several reasons:
- They’re available on your phone, so they’re easily accessible during ‘downtime’ on flights, long drives, etc.
- They’re typically short programs that don’t suck up a lot of time.
- Using the “radio station” feature in the new iO7 Podcasts app (or the similar feature in other apps like Downcast, Instacast, etc.), you can create a guitar channel that automatically updates with the latest episodes.
So, the big questions is: Where to get started? With so many podcasts, which are the best guitar podcasts to begin listening to? We’ve listed the Top 7 Best Guitar Podcasts below that are worth taking a look at. Several factors went into consideration when recommending these: Frequency of updates, Recency of updates, Quality of recording, Follower Reviews, and last, but certainly not least, Quality of Content.
And The Best Guitar Podcasts Are…
1. Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
A new ‘spot on’ podcast covering the in’s and out’s of fingerstyle guitar.
Site: www.fingerstyleguitarhangout.com
2. The Guitar Podcast
A great general guitar podcast with fundamental episodes on the basics of guitars, amps, effects pedals, accessories and more.
3. Guitar Music Theory – Desi Serna Podcast
This podcast features free audio guitar lessons that teach music theory for guitar. Listeners learn how scales, chords, progressions, modes, and more get applied to the fretboard and familiar songs. This includes a focus on compositional and improvisational techniques used in popular styles of music. The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on up and can be followed on either an acoustic or electric guitar. Bass players can learn a lot from the instruction too. It is recommended that you begin with the first episode titled, What Is Guitar Theory, and then follow the lessons in order from there.
4. Flatpicking Guitar Podcast
Put out by Dan Miller of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, this Podcast focuses on flatpicking through features celebrity interviews, music, and flatpicking news and information.
5. Fretboard Journal
Produced by Fretboard Journal Magazine, this is a weekly podcast highlighting interviews with legendary guitarists, luthiers and more.
6. Rig Rundowns – Premier Guitar
Premier Guitar’s world-famous Rig Rundowns take you backstage to explore the live gear used by your favorite guitar and bass players. Whether you’re into shred, country, indie, or classic rock, Rig Rundowns give you the lowdown on the instruments, pedals, and amps powering the biggest acts on the road today—and often we even coax them into demoing their favorite settings. Listen now and pick up new tricks for how to set up your rig!
7. 60 Cycle Hum: The Guitar Podcast!
A fun podcast from two guys just chatting guitars and other stuff. With great reviews from their listeners, they’ve been going strong since Jan 2014.
8. The Guitar Channel
Pierre Journel began this podcast with the mission to “help discover all the facets of the guitar via encounters with musicians, luthiers, amp or effect builder and also via soundseeings of instruments, effects as well as any equipment having a role in creating a sound.”
9. The Double-Stop Podcast
This rock-focused podcast by Brian Sword focuses on a lot of player interviews, bringing out some good real world playing experience for the listener.
10. Learning Guitar Now
John W. Tuggle produces this podcast focusing on blues and slide guitar lessons in the style of BB King, Eric Clapton, and Duane Allman.
There are certainly many other great guitar-oriented podcasts out there. But this is a good list to get started.
Feel free to check out Everyone Loves Guitar. We sit down and talk with interesting professional guitar players and find out what makes them tick.
We’ve published 128 podcasts in the last 128 days and will be publishing 5 shows a week as of 1/1/2018. Guests include some great players like Greg Martin (Kentucky Headhunters), Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson, Jeff Beck), Frank Sidoris (Slash), Johnny Hiland, David Grissom, Andy Timmons, Kat Dyson (Prince), Stu Hamm (bass, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai), Redd Volkaert, John Bohlinger (the “Premier Guitar Guy”), Christian Carlsson (The Quill), and perhaps the most recorded guitarist in history – legendary Nashville Session player Reggie Young (coming up next month).
You can check us out online at http://www.EveryoneLovesGuitar.com or on iTunes, and the usual podcast depot places. Always looking to make the show better, so your input is appreciated 🙂 Thanks!
Nice! Thanks for sharing
Our weekly podcast now has quite a few episodes and is ever-expanding with more and more listens every week. https://soundcloud.com/tunein-toneup/sets/tune-in-tone-up
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e966e92c0592b73841f1f1bbc0779925733da808853526db97a3ae75cfa60192.jpg My podcast is going to launch next weekend 17th December 2016 on iTunes and I hope you’ll like it as much as I like the Guitar Podcast and No Guitar is Safe. You can listen to our episodes via my website pre-launch: https://tunein-toneup.com/
My show is still pretty new, but I’ve had good feedback. Hope the shameless plug is ok!
ToneMob.com Podcast: The Show About Guitar Tone and The People Behind It by Blake Wyland: Guitar Player, Gear Nerd, and Tone Hound
https://itun.es/us/xiEK9.c
Guitar Player has launched “No Guitar Is Safe” hosted by Jude Gold. He interviews a different guitarist every week and they talk and play. It’s great. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/no-guitar-is-safe/id1020669587?mt=2&i=349400901
http://www.guitcast.com/blog/
News, reviews, talk + Bumblefoot, Bruce Kulick, Joel Hoekstra, Ol Drake, Jim Wilson, Yossi Sassi, etc…
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone!
The post has been “expanded” with a few additions (60 Cycle Hum, Modern Fingerstyle Guitar, and The Double Stop), and I’ve taken Six String Bliss off since, despite their former popularity, they’re no longer doing new episodes.
Let me know any other good ones and I’ll be happy to update the list.
Thanks
http://www.guitcast.com/blog/
News, reviews, talk + Bumblefoot, Bruce Kulick, Joel Hoekstra, Ol Drake, Jim Wilson, Yossi Sassi, etc…
Actually wondering if you could point me in the direction of a good podcast to get reviews done for my product (I’ll avoid spamming it here .)
If anyone wants more info they can email me tymock1@gmail.com
you should check out 60 cycle hum —> https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/60-cycle-hum-guitar-podcast!/id799172109?mt=2
We’ve recently started producing podcasts where we discuss all things guitar tone related if you would like to check it out: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chasing-tone-by-wampler-pedals/id891802835?mt=2
I listen to some of those. It’s a shame Six String Bliss is not running any more, but the guys did a great job.
I listed a few more at http://studiospoon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/radio-guitar.html
The Double Stop Podcast – https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-double-stop/id818189359?mt=2
Thanks, Brian. I wasn’t aware of that podcast. Looks great, though. I’ll check out some of the episodes.