135: John Petrucci Interview - New Solo Album, Practicing, Legato Styles & Tone Crafting

The Trooch, the whole Trooch and nothing but the Trooch.   This week TGHP guys are joined by the almighty progressive shred legend himself, John Petrucci!! (can you tell we’re excited about this one?)   They discuss John’s soon to be released second solo album “Terminal Velocity” and the freshly released title track. Topics include the background to the writing, recording and production process, crafting guitar tones, reuniting with Mike Portnoy, and how everything was accomplished during the pandemic.   We also get John’s take on the practise themes of late, and how his practise, development and maintenance has changed over the years since the Rock Discipline instructional.   Other topics include different approaches to legato, Berklee, learning and drawing from diverse styles and getting yelled at for rocking the jazz department too hard! 😂   This is peak podding fun for us, and really hope you all enjoy listening!   The Patreon aftershow includes some brief pre/post show chat with John, and all the usual bants and podmin from the boys.   If you enjoy the show please consider supporting the podcast over on Patreon, where you can get some fantastic extra TGHP content! You can also now pick up t-shirts, mugs and other merch from our TeeSpring store.   John’s Links https://johnpetrucci.com/ Pre-Order “Terminal Velocity” Now Stream "Suspended Animation" (John's First Solo Album) Now! John Petrucci Guitar Universe Camp 2021 JP on Instagram Dream Theater Soy Christmas   Show Links Patreon - Support TGHP TeeSpring - Get TGHP Merch TGHP Facebook discussion group TGHP on Instagram www.theguitarhour.com   Beebs www.davidbeebee.com Instagram YouTube Fibenare Guitars Quayle www.tomquayle.co.uk Tom - Instagram Tom's Signature Ibanez Guitar Wampler Pedals Jake Willson www.jakewillson.co.uk Instagram Fibenare Guitars Dan Smith www.dansmithguitarist.co.uk Instagram YouTube