The Acoustic Asylum

About The Acoustic Asylum

If learning guitar leaves you feeling mad, frustrated, or like you want to tear your hair out, this podcast is for you. Dan Thorpe specialises in teaching beginner guitar lessons to older adults. If you want to discover Dan’s methods for the best way to learn guitar, to play easy guitar songs while having more fun, and to do so without feeling like you have a one-way ticket to the Acoustic Asylum, then listen closely and... Join us as Dan shares the best tips, tricks, and motivating stories from his 10,000+ hours of teaching beginner guitar songs and techniques... All of which will help you on your guitar-playing journey immediately. Get two free and exclusive eBooks and more unique lessons from fingerstyle101.com/free

Publisher

Dan Thorpe

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Mar 2023

Latest episode

14 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

9 of 145 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep146 – The Lunacy of Scales (And a Better Way to Use Them)

   Host [Host Name] interviews [Guest Name, Credential] about mastering musical scales and transforming them into engaging melodies.

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   3 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep145 – Wax On, Play On: The Karate Kid Approach To Learning Guitar

   Host [Host Name] interviews [Guest Name, Credential] about applying "The Karate Kid" principles to master guitar fundamentals for accelerated progress.

3. 

   11 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep144 – The Rules of the Asylum: Rule #29 – Stop Torturing Yourself With the Way You Learn Guitar

   Host [Host Name] guides listeners to stop torturing themselves with ineffective guitar learning methods, revealing common mistakes and better approaches for an enjoyable journey.

Inside a recent episode

Ep146 – The Lunacy of Scales (And a Better Way to Use Them)

Published 14 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So what I say to students, here's the secret. This is what I say to students. Break that scale up into three different distinct parts, the bass parts. part the treble part okay so those notes were exactly what I've taught before you know what I mentioned in a minor pentatonic but what we're doing we mentally and physically breaking up into three parts we've got the bass strings so your low E and A string Those four notes, fret 5 on the low E, 5 and 7 on the A. Write this down if you need to with all these, okay? And you're just playing those four notes, fret 5 and 8 on the low E, 5 and 7 on the A string. […]

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Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

72 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

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Quality

78

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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