Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

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Enjoy over 25 years of staff columns, guest columns, interviews and more!

October-November 2014
Tom Hess Opus 2

There is no doubt that having a major following of fans for your music is crucial to big and long lasting success in the music industry.

October-November 2014
Tom Hess Opus 2

You`re going to like having the ability to write guitar solos that are highly melodic, expressive, and passionate.

October-November 2014
Tom Hess Opus 2

Before you take another lesson, here are the seven things that your guitar teacher has never told you (that you need to know).

December-January 2014
Tom Hess Opus 2

Helping guitar teachers understand the psychology behind achieving success in their guitar teaching businesses.

December-January 2014
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese gives you a nice sweep picking arpeggio workout using the chord progression from Pachelbel`s Canon in D.

December-January 2014
Simon Candy

Do you feel like you are at a dead end with your guitar playing? Here are five killer ways that will totally change the way you play your acoustic guitar from now on,

December-January 2014
Tommaso Zillio

Dealing with blues songs featuring incredibly complicated chord changes can be easier than you think.

December-January 2014
Tom Hess Opus 2

Reach your full potential and become part of the small percentage of highly successful guitar teachers.

December-January 2014
Tom Hess Opus 2

The key to playing killer guitar phrases is focusing on how you play - not necessarily which notes you use.

December-January 2014
Tom Hess Opus 2

To make your lead guitar playing sound great, you must understand how to play every single note in your licks with as much expression as possible.

February-March 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese delivers a fistful of single string triad arpeggios - major, minor and diminished.

February-March 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Here are 11 common guitar teaching mistakes that less experienced teachers make.

February-March 2015
Sam Russell

UK guitarist Sam Russell has some cool ways to spice up both open chords and standard chords with modal notes.

February-March 2015
Simon Candy

Learn how to develop great rhythm and time with your playing.

February-March 2015
Dallas Dwight

Read on for seven advantages and benefits of being a six-stringer.

February-March 2015
Chris Glyde

Simple music is about balance. It is about taking 1 to 2 musical ideas, weaving them together and manipulating the musical elements just right.

February-March 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Tom Hess identifies the five keys required for becoming a truly great guitar player.

February-March 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Musicians who build and sustain successful music careers utilize an entirely different set of skills, thought processes and values.

February-March 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Two Reasons Why You Have A Hard Time Expressing Maximum Emotion In Your Guitar Playing

April-May 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Before you will become a highly successful professional musician, you need to get rid of several false beliefs that will cause you to fail in your music career.

April-May 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese puts both hands on the fretboard to deliver more triad arpeggios.

April-May 2015
Dallas Dwight

Without a strong sense of melody and phrasing your music will never have that magical sense of wonder.

April-May 2015
Chris Glyde

Stay alive. Stay sane. Stay healthy. There are methods to achieving compositional greatness that do not involved personal pain.

April-May 2015
Sam Russell

UK guitarist Sam Russell shares his personal methods on finding the inspiration to be creative musically and lyrically.

April-May 2015
Simon Candy

Awesome tools, tricks and techniques that you can use again and again to create your own killer sounding, unplugged acoustic guitar song.

April-May 2015
Tommaso Zillio

If your guitar heroes use a lot of "wrong" notes and make them sound "right" (and you can`t), here`s how to do it.

April-May 2015
Antony Reynaert

Reynaert takes you on a journey through the possibilities of blues rhythm guitar playing.

April-May 2015
Dean Hailstone

Maximizing your on-stage guitar tone so that you can make every gig an enjoyable experience.

April-May 2015
Scott Allen

A guided tour of the 2015 album by the Scott Allen Project.

April-May 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Build incredible amounts of musical tension by combining sweep picking technique with creative guitar phrasing ideas.

April-May 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

You must master the ability to play with both speed and creativity in order to make your licks stand out.

April-May 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Comparing the opposing mindsets of successful and unsuccessful musicians.

June-July 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese covers the flat keys moving around the circle of fourths.

June-July 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Learn the differences between guitar teaching business `myths` and `reality`.

June-July 2015
Dallas Dwight

Without a strong sense of melody and phrasing your music will never have that magical sense of wonder.

June-July 2015
Chris Glyde

In order to be a great guitar player you must develop mastery over the fretboard.

June-July 2015
Simon Candy

Do you feel like you are at a dead end with your guitar playing? Here are three additional killer ways that will totally change the way you play your acoustic guitar from now on,

June-July 2015
Tommaso Zillio

If you are wondering how modern metal players use all these "wrong" notes and still sound great - here`s how.

June-July 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

The majority of guitar players unconsciously ruin their potential for improvement by learning `too fast` in some areas of their playing and `too slow` in other areas.

June-July 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

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

June-July 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

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

August-September 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

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

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