Did you ever wonder where confidence comes from? How is it possible to have confidence at times, and suddenly lose confidence at critical moments?
The Guitar Player's Resource
Welcome to the December holiday edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. Regular contributors such as Mike Campese, Tom Hess, and Tim Sweeney are featured, alongside new interviews with Steve Kaynan, Eric Loy, Steve Coyne and Vinny Roth. String skipping, guitar speek and teaching guitar are just three of the subjects found in this issue, giving guitarists more ideas for growth and improvement. In total, six new featured articles have been submitted on a range of musical topics of interest to practicing musicians. Remarkably, we've published over 200 artist interviews, while over 200 musicians and industry experts have written guest columns for this site since 1997.
Did you ever wonder where confidence comes from? How is it possible to have confidence at times, and suddenly lose confidence at critical moments?
Guitar Nine's December-January 2015 newsletter.
Why general advice fails and what you should do instead.
Mike Campese will help you build on your scales with his string skipping exercises.
Music industry guru Christopher Knab rewinds his career, providing a detailed account `then to now`.
Any guitar teacher who achieves great success fully understands how they share a lot in common with anyone who has ever climbed to the top of Mt. Everest.
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses how to move on when it`s time to move on.
Start learning this winter how to mitigate the usual summer slowdown in your guitar teaching business.
I am using every form of social media to promote myself and my music. I use everything from my YouTube guitar lessons and live videos, to CD Baby, MySpace, and Facebook.
I`d like to do something with Eddie Van Halen. His ideas seem to transcend what we know about music theory and chord progressions and scales. He just has his own way of seeing things.
I`m getting an audience that want to hear my original compositions as opposed to seeing me play covers which has been flattering! All with no manager, no agent, no label, no representation, no producer - nothing!
(An advantage of being independent is) you can be true to yourself and not compromise musically, artistically, or morally. I really see no downside to being independent.
