Guitar Nine Columns

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney reminds you to create a newsletter your fans want to read.

Let`s have a look at some of the problems that may prevent you and many other blues players from realizing their musical potential.

Here are some great ways to overcome guitar practice challenges.

Wagner`s recent conversation with Tom Hess featuring a critique of common guitar playing advice.

Following His Vision In Jazz

Jazz With Blues-Drenched Phrasing

Incredible Acoustic Guitarist

Jazz With Blues-Drenched Phrasing

I`m not taking myself to seriously. And I think that`s a good thing... music is supposed to be fun.

Guitar Nine's February-March 2013 newsletter.

I wanted this CD to sound like four musicians jamming live in a studio, and if that`s what it sounds like to someone, then that makes it better.

The unexpected success of "Fill The Sky" has spawned tons of other peripheral stuff that also requires a lot of time and effort such as interviews, endorsements, and guest appearances.

It takes most guitar players many years before they learn how to practice guitar in a way that is both productive and enjoyable.

Explaining inside/outside picking, and how it can help you alternate pick difficult passages.

Are you playing too much? Well, it may be that you are not using enough pentatonic scales in your soloing!

If you are desperate to close the gap between yourself and your guitar - read on.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney reminds us the successful artists are out there meeting everyone and working together, the others never leave home.

Wagner`s recent conversation with Tom Hess offers guitar practice tips.

Yes, there are other avenues beyond reality shows by which new bands can try to build a career.

How to remember the notes on guitar once and for all and become a more creative guitarist in the process.

Greasy New Orleans Blues

Relentless French Progressive Metal

Untouchably Radical Australian Fusion

Jazz Duets With The Greats

Guitar Nine's April-May 2013 newsletter.

Two for one - a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar, along with some timeless advice.

Putting together an album, the way I tend to do them, is a long and hard journey. It took three years between the first and second album.

Have you ever had a hard time getting your guitar students to make significant progress from one lesson to the next? There is a simple adjustment you can make.

Here is a method to find out how much your vibrato has improved over the last 6-12 months of playing guitar.

There is a simple way to learn music theory (more than one in fact).

Combining fretted notes with sustaining open strings underneath gives the illusion that the guitar has more strings than just six sometimes.

When you are confident on stage to the degree you are confident playing at home alone then any fear will not hinder your focus and performance.

Most guitar players have a tendency to use a single (often limiting) approach to songwriting that holds them back from achieving the results they want.

Paul Kleff offers a simple, orderly way to analyze songs and reduce them into small, easily-practiced parts that can be mastered individually and then assembled into the complete song.

Exemplary German Instrumentalist

Relentless French Progressive Metal

Delivering The Unfamiliar

Audiophile Jazz Fusion CD/DVD

Guitar Nine's June-July 2013 newsletter.

The reality is, you don`t have to settle for limited financial gains in your guitar teaching business.

Mike is back with the second part of a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar.

The CAGED system as is commonly taught has a number of problems that prevent you to reach your full potential.