Guitar Nine Columns: Guitar Technique

Avoiding these crippling mistakes will eliminate frustration and lead to satisfying arrangements.

A way of playing your guitar where you can sound full and complete without needing someone else to play with you.

Mike has a new album, "The Fire Within". and breaks down a few of the notable tracks.

Learn the sophisticated, awe inspired, and flat out mind-blowing style of percussive acoustic guitar.

Is learning music theory is the way to go, or, will it drain your potential?

Additional rhythmic variations to practice using the pentatonic scale as the vehicle.

Mike delivers the keys to unlocking specific sounds, such as the Phrygian dominant mode, from the Harmonic Minor scale.

Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the “5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.

Learning to use musical form will help you "cast" an idea into an entire song.

Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the “5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.

How to use your 'dead time' tp maximum advantage.

Rosocha teaches permutations - altered scale shapes based on fretboard position.

Gaining fluency with triad arpeggios will help your soloing and rhythm playing.

Play great songs such as “Landslide”, "Dust In The Wind" and "The Boxer".

Tommaso delves into guitar solo harmonies - they are not as hard as they look.

Take you guitar playing to the next level with Tommaso's best advice for the intermediate player.

Slide guitar offers a very cool and unique sound that cannot be emulated any other way.

Anyone (including yourself) can learn to develop creativity by using the proven methods and strategies for reaching this goal.

Mark covers the essential picking styles new guitarists need to learn (or at least be familiar with).

Mike shows you several ways to spice up your riffs, lines and solos with some chromatic passing tones.

A technique that allows you to play both the melody and accompaniment parts of a blues tune at the same time.

Mike teaches you scale sequences (in the Hanon style, adapted from piano) that are great for your dexterity and precision.

These exercises will help you to focus on string crossing with alternate picking, and also to help you develop left/right hand synchronization, speed and stamina.

If left unquestioned, these kind of thoughts can start to really build up and hurt your progress as a musician.

Here are more true reasons for Vai's world-class guitar playing and the lessons each one holds for you.

An expert knows to practice simpler things.

Mike shows you moveable type patterns for the harmonic minor scale, and some ways you can get some fresh new modern type sounds.

Don't go with what feels easy as opposed to what is right.

Here are the true reasons for Vai`s world-class guitar playing and the lessons each one holds for you.

Playing a chord progression accurately does not necessarily mean the progression will sound good.

focusing on picking and moveable shapes that will help to create longer lines.

Studying other styles of music such as jazz, will only make you a better, more rounded acoustic guitar player and musician.

Don`t waste another second of your time learning the guitar scales by using the CAGED system.

Is there any real benefit to learning more than one scale system? Here`s one opinion to consider.

Confused about the modes? Here is a way you can practice the modes that may help.

In part 3, you`ll learn how to easily play fast solo lines and riffs on your guitar.

3-string picking ideas that are great for developing your picking, and to help create lines.

Chris takes you through every inversion on string-set G-B-E, allowing you to bust one out when called upon to do so.

In part 2, you`ll learn how to create amazing blues guitar solos using open strings.

And... a tasty lick to get your fingers working.

One of the oldest concepts in the book, adapted for modern rock guitar playing.

Why do people still use the CAGED system? Here are some answers.