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

In this episode I'm going to introduce myself, and I'm going to talk about my journey and experiences so far as a guitar player and guitar teacher, all of which led me to start this guitar podcast.

Some of the things I mention in this episode are:
- The gear I've used
- Some of my favorite guitar players
- And some simple, fun facts about me

Definitely subscribe to the show if you want to keep learning about guitar techniques, theory, and fundamentals.

And for more information, check out my website: Guitarjet.com.

Thanks for listening! You're awesome.

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the Guitar Jet Podcast,where you'll skyrocket your knowledge of theory,
techniques, and fundamentals for guitar.Hey, welcome to the Guitar Jet Podcast.
I'm your guitar teacher and host,Miles Halter, and I thought i'd
let you know about my experience andhistory as a guitarist. If you have
any questions for me, you canask them on my website guitar jet dot

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com or in my Facebook group,the Guitar Technique Society. I started learning
guitar at the ripe age of eightyears old. I had an older guitar
teacher named Ola, and I wasplaced in a group setting with four other
kids. The five of us allgot the same half sized classical guitar start
our journeys, the Yamaha CGS oneO two. I still have that guitar
and I play it almost every day. Fast forward to me being fourteen years

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old, which is when I gotan electric guitar and guitar amplifier for Christmas.
Specifically, I got a Squire stratocasterand a Fender Mustang two amp.
That amplifier introduced me to the manydifferent effects you can use on electric guitar,
which certainly inspired me to pick upmy instrument and practice it, at
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
I discovered something that changed my life. Drop D tuning. You see,
I'm a big fan of the bandTool, and naturally, like every Tool
fan that plays guitar, I wantedto learn how to play Vicarious and Ladderalis.
So I hopped on YouTube and lookedup how to play these songs and
learned right away that they are allcomposed using drop D tuning. So because

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of Tool and their use of dropD tuning, I was inspired to start
playing the electric guitar every day,and I've played guitar almost every day since
then. Now let's talk a bitmore about my learning experience from age sixteen
to eighteen. Since I was divingdeep into guitar, I knew that I
had to and wanted to learn moreabout famous and influential guitar players. So

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I googled who the best guitar playerswere at the time, and I found
some incredible lists. Through these lists, I just coverged guitar players like Steve
Vaie, Gary Moore, John Pertrucci, Buckethead, Guthrie Govin, and Sean
Lane. And if you're wondering,I had already discovered the really famous guitar
players like Eddie Van Halen, JoseAftrioni, Jimmy Hendricks and Slash through listening

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to rock music and playing guitar heroA few months before I turned nineteen,
I started teaching guitar. Since then, I've taught a plthrow of students,
learned from some incredible guitar teachers,studied lots of guitar greats, have had
over ten thousand people read my contenton Google, and I've played guitar with
lots of great friends, musicians andbands. And that is all I'll leave

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you with for today. Thanks forlistening, and please subscribe to the Guitar
Podcast for episodes and resources about guitartheory, techniques, and fundamentals. Keep jamming