Guitar Nine Columns

Future Bass Shredder

Latin Jazz Guitarist Looks To Shine

Sweden's New Instrumental Progressive Rock

Hard-Driving Southern Rock

Releases New Acoustic Solo Guitar Album

Improvisational Boldness Meets Esoterica

Hard Livin' & Hard Playin'

Riotous Texas Blues With Double Trouble

Modern Beats Grace New Jazz Release

Evocative, Guitar-Driven World Music

St. Louis Instrumental Rock

Polish Instrumentalist Creates Progressive Rock

Totally Acoustic Troubadour Music

Melodic Fusion/Shred Dominates Class Project

Speed Picked Instrumental Metal

Adept At Rock, Blues, Metal, Funk & More

Slovenia's Instrumental Rock Future

Music industry guru Christopher Knab is back with the skinny on getting noticed.

Want to double your fun? Double tracking your arpeggios may be the way to do it.

Canadian guitarist David Martone opens up the mailbag to answer a reader question about tone.

Canadian guitarist David Martone discusses the benefits and advantages of mastering your CD.

Mike is back to help you coordinate your hands, while developing speed and accuracy.

Yet another weapon in the arsenal of techniques you can use to spice up your music.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas discusses the little discussed subject of fingering.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney opens up the mailbag to answer a question about `street marketing`.

I was on mp3.com for a while, but my opinion of the web is that piracy seems to be the end result of all the freebies, so we are staying with pressings even though they get copied and sent out for free. I`m a professional recording artist, so I`m committed to charging for my work.

I usually will come up with ideas by throwing on my drum machine and just playing riffs, or by sitting in front of the TV and getting inspiration from whatever is on. I wrote the song "The Fugitive" while watching the movie of the same name. All the action was incredible, and the song turned out to be just as intense.

Doing clinics has allowed me go to places and promote myself where I wouldn`t have been able to have even dreamed of going to. I`ve done clinics/workshops/performances in Germany, Spain, Japan, Greece, Sweden, UK, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, France, Canada, Belgium and of course the U.S. Being one of the top clinicians in the U.S. has gotten me to places I only read about in school.

I guess like a fingerprint, no one musician can be exactly alike, so that helps a bit. If I were to make any distinction, it would be that I really respect the tune itself and have always sacrificed technical acrobatics and note bombardment for the sake of melody, depth and feel - which I`ll will admit is a constant battle.

Fusing Latin, Caribbean and North African Influences

Gutty Guitars, Expressive Vocals

Just Enough Brilliant Fingerstyle

Progressive/Metal, Jazz/Fusion Instrumentals

Jackhammer Picking, Dive Bombs Away!

Rock/World/New Age Instrumental Works

French Duo Releases Demo

New England Based Metal Band Strikes Back

Polish Instrumental Neo-Classical Masterworks

Bluesy Shred, Instrumental Hard Rock

Scorched, Raw Guitar

From Hard/Dark To Ethereal

Music industry guru Christopher Knab with tips on building the ideal music promotional kit.