December-January 2016

Vol. 21, No. 4: December-January 2016
New Columns & Interviews Featured In Our Holiday Edition
Enjoy Four New Columns And A New Artist Interview

Welcome to the December holiday edition of the Guitar Nine on-line magazine. Acoustic chording and perfect 5ths are just two of the subjects found in this issue, giving guitarists more ideas for growth and improvement. In total, four 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 20 years! Of note, we've published over 200 artist interviews, while nearly 210 musicians and industry experts have written over 1000 guest columns for this site since 1996.

Dan McAvinchey
Guitar Haus

How to keep from destroying your confidence by setting realistic expectations for your recording projects.

Guitar Nine Newsroom
Guitar Nine Newsroom

Guitar Nine's December-January 2016 newsletter.

Tommaso Zillio
Tommaso Zillio

Integrating scales and arpeggios mechanically.

Simon Candy
Simon Candy

Drastically improve your acoustic guitar playing with these easy to play, advanced sounding chords.

Tom Hess
Tom Hess Opus 2

How to develop a lightning fast tremolo picking guitar technique.

Mike Campese
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Read about new ideas for using perfect 5ths in your playing.

Dan McAvinchey
Guitar Haus

But there is a risk with being an independent musician, and that is that you get so lost in your own freedom that you end up with a career that isn`t going anywhere.

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