Thank you JoLa for sharing. Great!

Thanks for highlighting this interview JoLa.
I joined Active Melody in 2011 and have watched and learnt a lot over those intervening years. During this interview Brian was critical of his performances in those early years, however he was still head & shoulders above anyone else at the time.

Brian always comes over as a humble and likeable character, we all know his talents as a teacher and musician even though he somewhat plays it down but, we all know different. Brian’s strength as a teacher and enthusiasm for guitar is contagious and probably the main reason why Active Melody is so successful.

Richard

The interviewer mentioned being influenced by Ted Greene. I looked up info on him and that must have been so confusing to learn using his method of bombarding students with every possible variation on a chord.

I liked that little snippet of Brian teaching the blending of E major and E minor pentatonic to play the blues. I could see and understand exactly what he was explaining. It’s so awesome to just know how all of this actually works now.

Now I know Brian’s story. So glad he is doing what he loves to do. And that video with Tomo was very insightful as it pertained to vibrato technique.

What?? Why didn’t Brian tell us about this?

This is fantastic!!! Thanks so much for sharing, JoLa.

JoLa, thank you for finding this.
It’s a great conversation between both Gary and Brian, kind of a rare gem. Especially enjoyed hearing about his early days in junior high school and how he gravitated towards the guitar and what it meant to him.