Guitar Nine Columns

Oregon Meets Ocean

Guitar Nine's December-January 2014 newsletter.

Mike Campese delivers a fistful of single string triad arpeggios - major, minor and diminished.

Here are 11 common guitar teaching mistakes that less experienced teachers make.

UK guitarist Sam Russell has some cool ways to spice up both open chords and standard chords with modal notes.

Learn how to develop great rhythm and time with your playing.

Read on for seven advantages and benefits of being a six-stringer.

Simple music is about balance. It is about taking 1 to 2 musical ideas, weaving them together and manipulating the musical elements just right.

Tom Hess identifies the five keys required for becoming a truly great guitar player.

Musicians who build and sustain successful music careers utilize an entirely different set of skills, thought processes and values.

Two Reasons Why You Have A Hard Time Expressing Maximum Emotion In Your Guitar Playing

My vision and formal concept of an album is always a full length CD. And I´m surprised at how many people actually order my physical CD album. Actually I´m selling quite a few more CDs than downloads.

I didn`t want that DIY vibe for the artwork, or the sound/production. I wanted a quality product that will stand the test of time, and that meant really deciding what I could do myself, and what would be better left to a dedicated professional.

There was no goal or idea to create an album initially. The music on the album was gathered from many musical ideas that I had had over the last two years or so and were composed in many different places.

Guitar Music At Its Best

Yes, But Can He Play Fast?

New Dutch Prog Metal Rising

Mindstorming Brothers In Arms

Guitar Nine's February-March 2015 newsletter.

I strive to be the best I can, and I do that by incorporating everything I know into my music and I never stop learning.

Before you will become a highly successful professional musician, you need to get rid of several false beliefs that will cause you to fail in your music career.

Mike Campese puts both hands on the fretboard to deliver more triad arpeggios.

Without a strong sense of melody and phrasing your music will never have that magical sense of wonder.

Stay alive. Stay sane. Stay healthy. There are methods to achieving compositional greatness that do not involved personal pain.

UK guitarist Sam Russell shares his personal methods on finding the inspiration to be creative musically and lyrically.

Awesome tools, tricks and techniques that you can use again and again to create your own killer sounding, unplugged acoustic guitar song.

If your guitar heroes use a lot of "wrong" notes and make them sound "right" (and you can`t), here`s how to do it.

Reynaert takes you on a journey through the possibilities of blues rhythm guitar playing.

Maximizing your on-stage guitar tone so that you can make every gig an enjoyable experience.

A guided tour of the 2015 album by the Scott Allen Project.

Build incredible amounts of musical tension by combining sweep picking technique with creative guitar phrasing ideas.

You must master the ability to play with both speed and creativity in order to make your licks stand out.

Comparing the opposing mindsets of successful and unsuccessful musicians.

Aggressive Slide Guitar

Where Moscow Meets Texas Blues

30 Years Of Amazing Playing

Aaaahhhhhhhhhh! Metal Mayhem!

Guitar Nine's April-May 2015 newsletter.

Mike Campese covers the flat keys moving around the circle of fourths.

Learn the differences between guitar teaching business `myths` and `reality`.

Without a strong sense of melody and phrasing your music will never have that magical sense of wonder.

In order to be a great guitar player you must develop mastery over the fretboard.