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Iz This Guitar Music?

Guitar Nine Records December-January 2005 newsletter.

First Solo CD A Long Time Comin'

The Flamenco Surfer

Radical & Innovative Guitar

Dissonant Heavy Guitar Shred

Fist-Pumping Rock & Metal

No Rules, Just Good Music

Formidable Italian Shredder

Croatian Guitarist Seeks Soundtracks

Guitar music isn`t for everybody. Can`t expect to sell as much as pop vocal music, and that`s OK. Guitar music is for those who enjoy it, and it`s great that Guitar Nine Records gives us a place where we can easily get it.

Mike Campese offers an unusual technique that can yield some surprisingly cool results.

Times are perfect for releasing your own CD and this article will give you some planning and recording ideas.

Getting it done? Or wishing you had? Maybe it`s not too late to make your future.

No time to market or promote your music? Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney can help you turn this negative into a positive.

Developing riffs and melodies into complete, interesting and listenable pieces of music.

Adding tremendous color and personality to your music through the use of rhythm.

Jason Parker tells you what to expect and how to get a foot in the door.

Guitarist Toshi Iseda reminds musicians that live shows should also be an engaging entertainment experience.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas explores the relationship between musical expression and technique.

Danny Jones is back with blues licks featuring dynamic double stops.

Annihilate your tendencies to rely on reflexes, and use the force instead.

Need more ways to make a simple melody more interesting? Let the Sultan of String show you how.

You`re all doing this, right? No? Maybe it`s time to get your tracks slamming, with Canadian guitarist David Martone.

Will Landrum shows you how to inject your own personal timing and inflections into your playing while staying in groove with the real timing of the music.

I do any interview I can arrange to promote the CD. My partner has been marketing all over the internet and working in conjunction with our record company to keep getting press and putting the word out about my CD.

Being your own record label eliminates having to sell your soul. You also have full control over the creative aspects of your music, you own 100% of your publishing, you don`t put yourself in debt, and you call all the shots.

On every album I try to compose songs that fit together and record the album using a wide range of emotions and atmospheres. If I have enough speed/technique songs, I`ll work on an atmospheric one, or an acoustic number.

Music industry consultant Christopher Knab sounds his beginning-of-the-year wake-up call to financial planning.

Instrumental Rock To The Max

Zen-Like Approach To Fingerstyle

Seriously Robotic Riffage

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