Guitar Nine Columns

More Than Thrash/Metal

Aaaahhhhhhhhhh! Metal Mayhem!

Guitar Nine Records June-July 2007 newsletter.

Music That Grabs Your Attention

A Technical Mastery Of Jazz

Italian Hard Fusion

Powerful & Often Surprising

It was really important to me that all of the crazy shred guitar on the record be song driven and not the other way around. As a listener, I want to hear songs, not a brief melodic section and then eight minutes of jamming.

Travels with your musical tour guide, Canadian guitarist David Martone.

How to keep your performance but change the ampís sound after the fact.

Michael Knight looks at some activities for versatile composition and soloing.

What does it mean for one`s playing to be considered original? Let`s find out.

Enlist those underutilized picking hand fingers to facilitate string skipping and wider intervals.

Here are seven common problems guitarists encounter when learning to sweep pick, and what you can do about them.

The second part of the process and benefits of writing down and charting specific details of the things the composer wishes to express is explained.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney recommends cooperation, instead of competition.

Tom Hess with his third installment on ideas on selecting and using a compositional process that works best for you.

Guitar Nine Records August-September 2007 newsletter.

Neo-Classical Guitarist Goes Solo

Rock Guitar Virtuoso Plans New CD

Solo Fingerstyle Guitarist Taps Into Her Talent

Instrumental Guitarist Stresses Music Over Flash

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney urges you focus on the messages and ideas your music provokes.

Tom Hess with his fourth installment on songwriting, with more advanced, yet simple and overlooked concepts.

Exploring the best use of swept arpeggios in a rock guitar player`s bag of tricks.

Check out Sander Owen`s ultimate guide for the impatient and willfully weak musician.

If you`re sitting there with a pick in your hand, throw it away, you won`t need it.

A theory borrowed from psychology but adapted by the author to the musical realm.

Simple knowledge of pentatonics is all you need to utilize the modes in your lead guitar playing.

The Mad Scotsman is here with the first in a series of lessons featuring cliche busting musical ideas.

Guitar Nine Records October-November 2007 newsletter.

Great ideas for wicked tone, by Canadian guitarist David Martone.

You can get so much from exposure to unfamiliar music styles.

Zack Uidl outlines key characteristics and work habits people look for in a studio/session musician.

Mike`s ideas will help you move up the neck very quickly.

Kevin Buck tackles the most technically challenging piece ever written.

Web sites give people all over the world a central place to find band information. Maximize this resource and fans will want to return to your site.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney takes on the overwhelmed artist with some helpful advice.

I like to compose instrumental songs, without the use of words, to communicate my emotions and my way of life. I`m not a singer, but I`m a guitarist, so I try "to speak" with my guitar.

My favorite album is "Phoenix Rising". The expectations after the success of "Into The Eye Of The Storm" were high, but everyone was highly motivated and we really put everything into it.

Part two of Scott Allen`s exploration into the wonderful world of arpeggios.

Classical Guitar Augments New Age Instrumentals