Guitar Nine Columns

It's Winter - Let's Hit The Beach

Guitar Nine Records February-March 2006 newsletter.

Pushing Improvisational Limits

Spearheading Brazilian Form Revival

An Incendiary Sound Shock

Delivering Memorable Instrumental Rock

Good TIme Instrumental Rock

Rocker Lets It Rip

An Expression Of Various Styles

Rock-Fusion, Country-Jazz

Music industry consultant Christopher Knab discusses what can happen if you get the industry`s attention.

Motivation. Where did it go? Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney can help you reconnect with your passion.

Here`s how to spark the inspirational flame, and reignite your inner fire.

Strategies that successful independent artists use day in and day out to profit from their passion for music.

Danny Jones is back with licks that will help you break the scale pattern syndrome.

UK guitarist Alan Williamson shows you how to use more fingers, tones and frets in your licks.

Can you deliver interesting and musical solos? Do it by looking for ways to add more variety.

Mike Campese serves up a blended scale you can use to set your music apart from the ordinary.

I just love instrumental guitar music. There is something great about hearing somebody write music that will keep people`s interest without having the vocal to rely on.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas with an insightful answer to a common question.

Canadian guitarist David Martone talks about easy drum sound replacement.

An Edge Rock Instrumental Band

Easy Flowing Rock, Blues, Country Mix

Equally Raw And Lush

Kick Axe Outerspace Rock

Instrumental music kind of reminds me of little orchestra or classical pieces, because there`s so much information going on. It`s a challenge to do, it`s really hard to do that stuff.

I started to get calls from different record labels, they had interest in me, but at the end of the day the didn`t know what to do with me, because it`s not really jazz, although it`s jazzy, it`s not really blues, but bluesy.

Driven Towards Neo-Classical Excellence

Instrumental Rocker Seeks Deal

Two-Handed Instrumental Fusion

Mad Sammarinese Instrumentalist

Rocker Seeks Record Label

Looking For A Career In Music

G9er Will Landrum is back with more ways to use the beloved arpreggio.

The Guitar As Voice

Just Don't Call It Shred

Guitar Nine Records April-May 2006 newsletter.

Music industry consultant Christopher Knab offers invaluable advice and nutritious food for thought.

Why do a relatively small number of your fans attend your gigs? Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney offers his studied opinions.

One of the best ways to memorize your scales on the neck and help you break out of the patterns you have been stuck in.

Strategies that successful independent artists use day in and day out to profit from their passion for music.

Tom Hess urges you to get beyond `guitarist` and `musician` to uncover the `artist` within.