Guitar Nine Columns

Steel-String Fingerstyle Instrumentals

Rockin' Tinsel Town With Furious Energy

Combining Jazz, Indian Music, Breakbeats & Effects

Applying Wisdom To Blues/Rock

Setting Their Eye On The National Spotlight

Wickedly Raw Blues Unleashed

Legacy Of Great Twin Guitar Rock

Live-In-The-Studio Free Improvisations

Defining England's Instrumental Rock

Music For Fretted & Fretless, Electric & Classical

Blending Jazz/Rock With Pop Arrangements

Instrumental Mayhem From UK Shredder

I sent Lion Music a CD and they emailed me saying they were interested in signing me. I`m really happy to be with Lion. Some of the guitarists I grew up listening to are on that label, and that`s cool for me because it kind of lets me know that I`m finally on their level.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab with the numeric lowdown on getting your music in the stores.

How to expand your soloing arsenal by reworking some familiar ideas.

Sooner or later, you`ll want to make your solos more exciting. Start by making up new scale sequences.

Italian guitarist Salvatore Vecchio with a column on mixing various pentatonic scales to achieve something fresh.

Getting the left hand to keep up with the right hand sweep through hand synchronization.

Don`t be grabby! Taking the take that takes the cake, by Canadian guitarist David Martone.

One of the things that makes the guitar different from other instruments is the fact that you can incorporate open strings into chord voicings. Here`s how.

Applying time-shifting to enhance tapped arpeggios.

Were you thinking, "Gee, there`s got to be a way to spice up a G...?" Zounds! You were right.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses the use and abuse of Flash.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas talks about penetrating the mystery of time.

Releases Dynamite Chicago Blues CD/DVD

Black Sheep Of The Blues

Rhythmic Brazilian Fusion/Jazz/Rock

Over The Edge Instrumental Rock

Reflective Classical/New Age Instrumentals

My, What Loud Guitars You Have

Atmospheric Electric/Acoustic Instrumentals

Fluid, Organic, Bluesy Rock

Bass-Oriented, Rhythmically Heavy Fusion

Emerging From Hiatus With Jazz Standards

Expanding The Possibilites Of Solo Guitar

Delivering Multi-Genre Instrumentals

The main thing over here is, we have big media problems. People that do weirder kind of music, jazz, fusion or blues, there is not a big radio market for it, like there is in other countries. As a result of that, people don¥t get to hear the music and they don¥t show up at the gigs.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab discusses critical changes in the way recordings are sold and distributed.

Paul Nelson talks about the Ionian, or Major scale.

Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) updates can be tricky, take it from Canadian guitarist David Martone.

How Chris satisfies both his financial and artistic needs and how you can too.

How to write something you cannot play, and then playing it.