Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

Houston guitarist Rusty Cooley figures that with ten fingers, there`s got to be times when you can use over half of them to express your ideas.

Just can`t get enough info about modes, can you? Guitarist Tony Young relates modes to chord progressions.

New Jersey guitarist Paul Kuntz is back and aside from a ravenous appetite, he`s got plans to teach you all about tuplets and fitting the notes to the rhythm.

New Jersey guitarist Paul Kuntz takes time out from lunch to give you his assurance that there is life beyond the blues scale.

Don`t let your current concept of reality dominate your guitar playing.

Do you still think the Aeolian mode is a ship from Star Trek? Are you comfortable discussing Mixolydian and Phrygian modes in mixed company? Tony Young cuts to the heart of modes.

An original work (part one of two preludes) composed for solo electric guitar, in tabulature and standard notation.

An original work composed for solo classical guitar, in tabulature and standard notation.

Learn some substitutions for those tried and true barre chords. How the knowledge of triads can help you come up with original sounding guitar parts.

An arrangement of the Tchaikovsky piece for solo guitar, in tabulature and standard notation.

Some creative uses of digital delay when writing or recording.

Tips for playing arpeggiated chord progressions using string skipping.

Arnold Schulman discusses lyric writing for the beginner.