Guitar Nine Columns: Audio Enhanced Column

Take a small pattern and turn it into a larger phrase that will sound cohesive.

Here`s how to play in 4/4 time, switch time signatures and remain in time.

Showing you how to apply 5/8 time to your playing and how to change meters smoothly.

Explaining inside/outside picking, and how it can help you alternate pick difficult passages.

Two for one - a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar, along with some timeless advice.

Mike is back with the second part of a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar.

Mike Campese is back with excerpts from his latest CD, "Chameleon".

Mike Campese is back with additional ideas on how to compose - anytime, anywhere.

Mike Campese is back with exercises to help you improve your picking, dexterity, and overall technique.

Mike Campese returns with a second set of exercises to help you improve your picking, dexterity, and overall technique.

Mike Campese delivers patterns that foster some of the fastest, most accurate picking you can imagine.

Mike Campese touches on a more modern approach, incorporating different types of patterns into odd-numbered lines.

Mike Campese gives you a nice sweep picking arpeggio workout using the chord progression from Pachelbel`s Canon in D.

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

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

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

Mike Campese will help master your triads in all 12 keys, focusing on the sharp keys for the major triads.

Here you`ll learn several creative blues guitar techniques that will make your blues phrases sound much more expressive.

Mike Campese is back to help you out of the box - the scale pattern box, that is.

Mike Campese will help you build on your scales with his string skipping exercises.

Mike Campese reminds you that if you don`t use it, you will surely lose it.

Tom Hess will help you make your guitar solos overflow with emotion,

Just by flatting the third you can develop a whole new shredding sound.

These exercises and examples will help you to improve your finger independence as well as your picking.

Mike Campese teaches you short snippets from some songs off his brand new album "Chapters".

Here are Mike`s technique to help spice up your solos, instead of just running up and down arpeggios.

How to develop a lightning fast tremolo picking guitar technique.

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

These 2-string scale fragment examples will increase your speed and your picking technique.

3-string picking ideas that are great for developing your picking, and to help create lines.

Confused about the modes? Here is a way you can practice the modes that may help.

focusing on picking and moveable shapes that will help to create longer lines.

Mike shows you moveable type patterns for the harmonic minor scale, and some ways you can get some fresh new modern type sounds.