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2: Meet Your Guitar Teacher And Podcast Host, Miles Halter · The Guitarjet Podcast

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  Welcome to the Guitar Jet Podcast, where you'll skyrocket your knowledge of theory,
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  techniques, and fundamentals for guitar. Hey, welcome to the Guitar Jet Podcast.
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  I'm your guitar teacher and host, Miles Halter, and I thought i'd
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  let you know about my experience and history as a guitarist. If you have
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  any questions for me, you can ask them on my website guitar jet dot
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  com or in my Facebook group, the Guitar Technique Society. I started learning
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  guitar at the ripe age of eight years old. I had an older guitar
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  teacher named Ola, and I was placed in a group setting with four other
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  kids. The five of us all got the same half sized classical guitar start
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  our journeys, the Yamaha CGS one O two. I still have that guitar
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  and I play it almost every day. Fast forward to me being fourteen years
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  old, which is when I got an electric guitar and guitar amplifier for Christmas.
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  Specifically, I got a Squire stratocaster and a Fender Mustang two amp.
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  That amplifier introduced me to the many different effects you can use on electric guitar,
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  which certainly inspired me to pick up my instrument and practice it, at
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  least when I first got it. For about a year after that, I
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  actually took a brief guitar break. I just wasn't feeling it. But then
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  I discovered something that changed my life. Drop D tuning. You see,
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  I'm a big fan of the band Tool, and naturally, like every Tool
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  fan that plays guitar, I wanted to learn how to play Vicarious and Ladderalis.
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  So I hopped on YouTube and looked up how to play these songs and
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  learned right away that they are all composed using drop D tuning. So because
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  of Tool and their use of drop D tuning, I was inspired to start
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  playing the electric guitar every day, and I've played guitar almost every day since
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  then. Now let's talk a bit more about my learning experience from age sixteen
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  to eighteen. Since I was diving deep into guitar, I knew that I
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  had to and wanted to learn more about famous and influential guitar players. So
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  I googled who the best guitar players were at the time, and I found
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  some incredible lists. Through these lists, I just coverged guitar players like Steve
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  Vaie, Gary Moore, John Pertrucci, Buckethead, Guthrie Govin, and Sean
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  Lane. And if you're wondering, I had already discovered the really famous guitar
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  players like Eddie Van Halen, Jose Aftrioni, Jimmy Hendricks and Slash through listening
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  to rock music and playing guitar hero A few months before I turned nineteen,
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  I started teaching guitar. Since then, I've taught a plthrow of students,
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  learned from some incredible guitar teachers, studied lots of guitar greats, have had
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  over ten thousand people read my content on Google, and I've played guitar with
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  lots of great friends, musicians and bands. And that is all I'll leave
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  you with for today. Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to the Guitar
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  Podcast for episodes and resources about guitar theory, techniques, and fundamentals. Keep jamming