How to keep from destroying your confidence by setting realistic expectations for your recording projects.
The Guitar Player's Resource
Welcome to the December holiday edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. Instrumental guitar music is clearly considered underground by the mainstream music press, but it's an underground with a rabid and enthusiastic fan base. To do our part to serve that fan base, we've added 23 releases to the site in the past two months, including instrumental CDs by Gyula Schreiber, Bryan Beller, Brandon Campbell, Aaron Lewis, Shredding Across The World, John B., Revangel, Dojo, Jimmy Williams, Andre Tonelli, Kosta Vreto, Uthull, Freddie Fox, Lucas Fagundes, Bruce Bouillet, Doug Johns, Michael Angelo, Bluestone Company, Kevin Ferguson, Jimmy Herring, Guitar Idol 2008, Razl and Allen Hinds. You can now listen to and order 2005 instrumental releases by 1201 different artists.
How to keep from destroying your confidence by setting realistic expectations for your recording projects.
Guitar Nine Records December-January 2008 newsletter.
Topics as guitar players we tend to forget, but that are very important as far as making music.
Technique is very important, but worthless if you don`t know how to make your guitar groove.
8 finger tapping opens up a world of new musical ideas, giving you the ability to play things that would normally be considered impossible.
Paul Tauterouff expends on the flash lick concept in Part 2 of the series.
Applying the melodic minor scale to rock music with Mike Campese.
Digging a bit deeper into phrasing in a quest for greater self-expression.
Dunnett offers some insight into his rendition of "Paint It Black", the Rolling Stones classic.
Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess is here to help you turn contacts into meaningful connections.
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney talks about the relationships between elections, politics, and your music career.
Canadian guitarist David Martone shows how it`s possible to make a great video with a small amount of coin.
The lighter/darker side of the enigmatic diminished tritone, and its infamous interval, the b5th.
Kevin Ferguson offers guiding principles used to transcribe and arrange Vivaldi (and other Baroque) violin concertos to electric guitars.
The often misunderstood and underappreciated interval - the minor second.
Fifteen Years Of Progressive Rock Fusion
Aggressive, Unorthodox Fingerstyle Wins Fans
Delta-Flavored Bluesman Releases CD
New Progressive Band Forges Original Sound
I will be back doing more instructional videos in January with Joe Satriani. I can`t tell you how humbling it is to work with one of your mentors. Simply unbelievable!
We often cannot pinpoint exactly what it is we like about a certain piece of instrumental music, but the music nonetheless resonates within us on a deep, personal level.
I tend to discover guitarists that have been there for a long time and have many records, but hadn`t catch my attention until recently, like Derek Trucks or Alex Machacek.
