December-January 2013

Vol. 18, No. 4: December-January 2013
Seven New Columns Featured For This Holiday Season
It's A Great Time To Improve Your Playing And Knowledge

Welcome to the December holiday edition of the Guitar Nine on-line magazine. Songwriting and scale ideas are just two of the subjects found in this issue, giving guitarists more ideas for growth and improvement. In total, seven guest columnists have submitted brand new articles on a range of musical topics of interest to practicing musicians. Be sure to open and enjoy a seasonal beverage, while sampling some great music released by over 1000 musicians we've worked with over the past 17 years! Remarkably, over 190 musicians have written guest columns for this site since 1997.

Dan McAvinchey
Guitar Haus

Self-assessement time. Can you go it alone? You might need the synergy of two people working together to kick start your label.

Guitar Nine Newsroom
Guitar Nine Newsroom

Guitar Nine's December-January 2013 newsletter.

Jean-Pierre Zammit
Jean-Pierre Zammit

Pinpointing some very important factors that will help the student successfully go through and become a serious guitarist.

Tom Hess
Tom Hess Opus 2

Perhaps you have considered taking lessons but because someone you know had a disappointing experience with a teacher, you began to doubt if lessons are worth investing your time and money.

Tom Hess
Tom Hess Opus 2

Perhaps you have considered taking lessons but because someone you know had a disappointing experience with a teacher, you began to doubt if lessons are worth investing your time and money.

Christopher Knab
Christopher Knab

Music industry guru Christopher Knab with a few words of advice to one over-exuberant, well-intentioned,would-be music industry professional.

Ryan Buckner
Ryan Buckner

There are four mistakes that you can fix that will drastically increase your musical creativity and help you come up with songwriting ideas much faster.

Mike Campese
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese is back with ideas on how to compose - anytime, anywhere.

Tommaso Zillio
Tommaso Zillio

You might think that the pentatonic scale is just an easy scale but with no depth - well, you are wrong.

Guitar Nine
Guitar Nine

Cross-cultural Fusion Of Music

Guitar Nine
Guitar Nine

Capturing His Fiery Playing

Spotlight on Interviews