Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

Why general advice fails and what you should do instead.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses how to move on when it`s time to move on.

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

Sad but true: almost 100% of guitar instructors choose `mediocrity` as their standard of achievement.

You must figure out why these fears exist in you and what you can do to prevent them from controlling your musical future.

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

Learn awesome guitar techniques in the style of Chet Atkins and how to apply them to your own acoustic playing.

Don`t be clueless about what you must do to become a successful guitar teacher.

To grow your music career fast, you need to understand which questions you are asking that are leading you down the wrong path.

When you use an effective guitar practice approach, you gain a lot of confidence and excitement for your improvement. However, if you are like most guitarists, this excitement fades over time.

Most likely, your lack of progress is the result of years of bad playing habits. Let`s correct those habits.

Six points that will help you understand what you must do to clearly demonstrate your overwhelming value as a guitar teacher so you can attract more students.

Get your music career going on the right track by following the same approach used by Olympic competitors who succeed on the highest platform in the world.

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.

Chords have the potential to bring a whole new element to your soloing providing cool, unique, and contrasting textures amongst the single note lines you play.

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

Look deeper, and find the overlooked value that makes John Petrucci a much greater guitarist than other players.

If you are wondering how modern metal players use all these "wrong" notes and still sound great - here`s how.

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

The majority of guitar players unconsciously ruin their potential for improvement by learning `too fast` in some areas of their playing and `too slow` in other areas.

Tom Hess takes you through the exact steps needed for cleaning up unwanted string noise in your blues guitar licks.

Do you feel like you are at a dead end with your guitar playing? Here are three additional killer ways that will totally change the way you play your acoustic guitar from now on,

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.

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.

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

Comparing the opposing mindsets of successful and unsuccessful musicians.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.