Guitar Nine Columns: Guitar Technique

Use this scale to yield great sounds in jazz and ragtime, through perilous horror-film mayhem, cheese-metal and progressive rock fusion.

The second part of taking a well-known violin caprice to the six-string.

Let the Sultan of String blend, meld, mix and match scales, yielding a unique, exotic effect.

Do you want to play arpeggio-like melodies with "ear-caching" tensions? Let the Sultan of String show you how.

Hess guitarist Mike Walsh can`t stress enough the importance of a music education.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas is back with tips on a technical area that is of major concern to players

Do you know them? You must know them! Check out Mike Campese`s essential scales review.

Instrumentalist Joe Bochar, AKA Joboj, plants tongue firmly in cheek to help you burn up the fretboard.

How using only two fingers creates more advanced possibilities for interval riffs.

Kevin Ferguson, devotee of complex time signatures, reveals how you can master this area of technique.

More ideas on how you can add a really cool twist to your playing.

Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess weighs in on the debate over DIY or professional instruction.

Hess guitarist Mike Walsh explains why high caliber playing is important to self-expression.

Bassist and guitarist Mark Carozza lays out some of his tried and true rut-busting ideas.

Mike Campese opens 2005 with a great workout for your pickin` hand.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas believes organization is power. Soon, you will too.

Scott Tarulli offers great suggestions on keeping your eye on your goals for self-improvement.

Guitarist Jeff Lawrence talks about the many benefits of fretboard knowledge.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas helps you define the role of a good guitar teacher.

Mike Campese blazes through exercises from his all new CD, entitled "The New".

Mike Campese demonstrates that you can get many unique sounds out of just one scale.

Guitarist Paul Kuntz is back, after an almost 7 year absence, to talk modes.

A whole lot of great information about how to get new uses out of the pentatonic scale.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas can help you `manage` the process of changing bad playing habits.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney puts a definition on all the things to which a creative musician may aspire.

Can you benefit from a four-year music education? Let`s explore the options.

Mike Campese with more examples of getting many unique sounds out of just one scale.

A very challenging, but rewarding technique, with guitarist Mick Neil.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas is back discussing the importance of good practice habits.

Can you benefit from a four-year music education? Part 2 of the series.

Five pages of ii-V-I-VI etudes, in all twelve keys.

Tips on adjusting your thinking and broadening your style to expand your audience.

A look at ornamenting interval riffs with melody fragments.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas shows how to do both, and most importantly, how to combine them into one activity.

Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess helps you to identify those inevitable weak areas in your playing.

Want to break out of the blues rut? Danny Jones offers some great starting points.

Get out your brooms and... no wait, check that - here are Mike`s hottest sweep picking techniques.

Hess guitarist Mike Walsh offers great tips for accurate self expression.

Scare your audience (or even make someone hurl) with this ascending (yet descending) pattern.

Here are Mike`s sweep picking techniques applied to a revered classical caprice.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas helps you get beyond "moving fingers" to actually "making music".

If you think a Slash Chord is only found on a Guns `n` Roses album, you really need this article.