Guitar Nine Columns

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney wants to help you turn that situation around today.

Here are more exercises to develop and improve outside picking and alternate picking.

Here is a great way of acquiring some useful improvisational tools, improving your technique, and more.

Zammit`s back with the second part of his challenging and beneficial chromatic exercises.

Guitar-Oriented Rock/Blues Band

Sweden`s New Instrumental Progressive Rock

Hard-Driving Southern Rock

Evocative, Guitar-Driven World Music

I`m very fortunate in that I get to tour and play live quite a bit. I`m also happy to say that my fan base continues to grow, so considering the state of the music biz these days I`ve got no complaints.

Guitar Nine Records April-May 2010 newsletter.

Canadian guitarist David Martone is no longer confined to the boundaries of the stage. Find out why.

Scott Allen explodes the myth of the pentatonic scale being only appropriate for beginners.

Mike Campese introduces you to techniques from his 2010 CD.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab reminds us that money changes everything, and if you hope to make any, you need to read this.

If have a sincere interest in helping your beginning guitar students, read Tom Hess now.

Guy Pople shares his experiences with creating his own album with the Virtual Strangers cyberband.

Solo ideas and strategies that will help you build a memorable solo.

Every musician has to do it and while some dread it, many others do it religiously.

Here are exercises to develop and improve your speed on the guitar.

Fact: Music is easy. Fact: People complicate it.

Improve your legato technique with Zammit`s exercises.

Slovenia`s Instrumental Rock Future

Just Enough Brilliant Fingerstyle

Polish Instrumental Neo-Classical Masterworks

Makin` The Blues His Business

Guitar Nine Records June-July 2010 newsletter.

If you have gathered some musical experience by actively making music, you listen to music in another way. You are able to hear everything and not only the lead instrument or vocals.

Canadian guitarist David Martone relates his experiences at this year`s National Guitar Workshop.

Mike Campese is back with more ideas he used on his "Electric City" CD.

Do you want to improve your guitar technique, play guitar cleaner, eliminate sloppy playing and unwanted string noise?

Music industry guru Christopher Knab offers essential, life-long suggestions, for any and all musicians to remember as they establish and maintain their music careers.

Greigg checks out effects, beginning with pitch shifting or modulation effects.

These two can be some of the most telling sign if a musician is good or great.

I personally love to hear melody and hooks in solos as well as lyrically slow/wide vibrato and story-telling phrasing capped off with shredding licks that make you want to fall to pieces.

Here`s a skill that saves you time and keeps you focused on the real issue that is causing you to make mistakes.

Guy`s article designed for aspiring improvisers who are keen to break out of the pentatonic scale.

X marks the spot with ways to gain freedom of expression and develop an ability to create original solos.

Express yourself with bends using Zammit`s exercises.

Scott Allen explores altered chords (such as the Jimi Hendrix chord) and more.

Jazz Guitarist Releases Remarkable CD

Percussive Acoustic Guitarist Plans Career

Classical Guitar Meets Electric Guitar