Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

Look deeper, and find the overlooked value that makes John Petrucci a much greater guitarist than other players.

Tom Hess takes you through the exact steps needed for cleaning up unwanted string noise in your blues guitar licks.

Most likely, your lack of progress is the result of years of bad playing habits. Let`s correct those habits.

Mike Campese will help master your triads in all 12 keys, focusing on the sharp keys for the major triads.

Chords have the potential to bring a whole new element to your soloing providing cool, unique, and contrasting textures amongst the single note lines you play.

Six points that will help you understand what you must do to clearly demonstrate your overwhelming value as a guitar teacher so you can attract more students.

Get your music career going on the right track by following the same approach used by Olympic competitors who succeed on the highest platform in the world.

Here you`ll learn several creative blues guitar techniques that will make your blues phrases sound much more expressive.

Mike Campese is back to help you out of the box - the scale pattern box, that is.

Don`t be clueless about what you must do to become a successful guitar teacher.

Learn awesome guitar techniques in the style of Chet Atkins and how to apply them to your own acoustic playing.

Sad but true: almost 100% of guitar instructors choose `mediocrity` as their standard of achievement.

You must figure out why these fears exist in you and what you can do to prevent them from controlling your musical future.

To grow your music career fast, you need to understand which questions you are asking that are leading you down the wrong path.

When you use an effective guitar practice approach, you gain a lot of confidence and excitement for your improvement. However, if you are like most guitarists, this excitement fades over time.

Any guitar teacher who achieves great success fully understands how they share a lot in common with anyone who has ever climbed to the top of Mt. Everest.

Mike Campese will help you build on your scales with his string skipping exercises.

Why general advice fails and what you should do instead.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses how to move on when it`s time to move on.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab rewinds his career, providing a detailed account `then to now`.

Start learning this winter how to mitigate the usual summer slowdown in your guitar teaching business.

Mike Campese reminds you that if you don`t use it, you will surely lose it.

Mastering emotional playing will take your playing to the next level

How to carefully observe and learn from the vast library of existing unplugged acoustic songs out there.

Music theory isn;t learning how to write down different notes, or practicing and reciting scales on a guitar. It`s about experiencing the way notes interact and the effect they have on the listener.

David Sertl is here to address underdevelopment in the educational field of rhythm.

Here you`ll discover the three critical guitar phrasing elements that truly great guitarists possess.

No one succeeds in the music business who doesn`t already utilize the five key elements used by massively successful pro musicians.

Tom Hess will help you make your guitar solos overflow with emotion,

Just by flatting the third you can develop a whole new shredding sound.

It isn`t difficult to learn to study theory the correct way. It can actually be easier and more fun than you expect.

How studying other instruments will make you a better, more creative, and superior acoustic guitar player.

Tired of spending so much time practicing without ever seeing big results? Check out this article from Tom Hess.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab offers concrete information on booking contracts with venues.

These exercises and examples will help you to improve your finger independence as well as your picking.

Improve your guitar technique while learning the proper way to sweep those licks.

Ensure that you don`t come across as an amateur in a situation where you`re trying to impress the people who hired you.

The octave pattern is not as user-friendly for learning to play the notes on a fretboard as many teachers would like players to think.

Three cool ways to approach the rhythm of a 12 bar blues - take to your next jam and blow everyone away.

But if you want to keep progressing, you have to make the decision to grind it out.

David Sertl thinks it time that guitarists move beyond "Satryngvai Shredblues".

To easily play with greater speed, you`ll need to use the most effective picking technique possible.