More creative ways to use modal pentatonics in your playing.
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More creative ways to use modal pentatonics in your playing.
Complete understanding of the modes has eluded many a guitarist. Here`s part two of Mike Campese`s multi-part lesson.
Stop pulling out your hair, read the latest gem from Mr. Hess.
Performing a seek-and-destroy on 60-cycle hum with Canadian guitarist David Martone.
Sean Mercer returns with ways to help you break out of the 3 and 4 note sequence rut.
Constructing your own chord voicings and increasing your chord vocabulary.
Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale. This time: the diminished scale.
Steve Pappas enhances his previous "Amazing Grace" arrangement with this variation.
Becoming a performer and a listener all at once.
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney reminds you not to settle.
Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas discusses why, at times, you must make the difficult even more difficult.
There were a lot of different things that inspired this CD. Once I put the studio together, I just started recording what I wanted to hear. I love guitar and electronic music. I really wanted to blend the two together more than it`s ever been done.
Guitar Nine Records June-July 2003 newsletter.
The main thing over here is, we have big media problems. People that do weirder kind of music, jazz, fusion or blues, there is not a big radio market for it, like there is in other countries. As a result of that, people don¥t get to hear the music and they don¥t show up at the gigs.
Music industry guru Christopher Knab discusses critical changes in the way recordings are sold and distributed.
Paul Nelson talks about the Ionian, or Major scale.
Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) updates can be tricky, take it from Canadian guitarist David Martone.
How Chris satisfies both his financial and artistic needs and how you can too.
How to write something you cannot play, and then playing it.
Complete understanding of the modes has eluded many a guitarist. Here`s part one of Mike Campese`s multi-part lesson.
Sean Mercer teaches you a single right-hand finger tapping technique.
Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale.
Steve Pappas is back with his arrangement of one of the most well known hymns of all time.
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses live show promotion ideas.
How to embrace the healing power of music.
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I sent Lion Music a CD and they emailed me saying they were interested in signing me. I`m really happy to be with Lion. Some of the guitarists I grew up listening to are on that label, and that`s cool for me because it kind of lets me know that I`m finally on their level.
Music industry guru Christopher Knab with the numeric lowdown on getting your music in the stores.
How to expand your soloing arsenal by reworking some familiar ideas.
Sooner or later, you`ll want to make your solos more exciting. Start by making up new scale sequences.
Italian guitarist Salvatore Vecchio with a column on mixing various pentatonic scales to achieve something fresh.
Getting the left hand to keep up with the right hand sweep through hand synchronization.
Don`t be grabby! Taking the take that takes the cake, by Canadian guitarist David Martone.
One of the things that makes the guitar different from other instruments is the fact that you can incorporate open strings into chord voicings. Here`s how.
Applying time-shifting to enhance tapped arpeggios.
Were you thinking, "Gee, there`s got to be a way to spice up a G...?" Zounds! You were right.
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses the use and abuse of Flash.