Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

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

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

Dealing with blues songs featuring incredibly complicated chord changes can be easier than you think.

The key to playing killer guitar phrases is focusing on how you play - not necessarily which notes you use.

Reach your full potential and become part of the small percentage of highly successful guitar teachers.

To make your lead guitar playing sound great, you must understand how to play every single note in your licks with as much expression as possible.

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

Helping guitar teachers understand the psychology behind achieving success in their guitar teaching businesses.

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

You`re going to like having the ability to write guitar solos that are highly melodic, expressive, and passionate.

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

There is no doubt that having a major following of fans for your music is crucial to big and long lasting success in the music industry.

Tom Hess` explores creative possibilities with the low B string.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab offers three tips to help you promote your career, and enhance your chances of being offered opportunities.

Before you take another lesson, here are the seven things that your guitar teacher has never told you (that you need to know).

How to breathe new life in your licks and prepare for real-life playing at the same time.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney offers up positive approaches to negative circumstances

Try these cool runs which be very beneficial, get take you out of trouble.

Tom Hess takes on your teaching business, helping you avoid mistakes that may be costing you big money.

See how one of the least exciting concepts in music theory can actually help you create awesome licks.

Tom Hess` ideas for creating massive positive change in your ability to improvise rock guitar solos.

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

Music industry guru Christopher Knab talks about the money flow.

Knowing all the notes on your fretboard is more useful and simpler than you think. Read here how.

The most frequent fears possessed by most guitarists and what you must do to overcome them and reach your musical goals.

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

Tom Hess discusses what it takes to achieve success as a pro musician.

Go ahead and `burn` your fretboard with these Major 7th arpeggios.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab speaks about the appetite for perfection. A need to be not just good enough but great.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab offers simple basics on graphic considerations when designing album artwork.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney reminds us to think outside the box.

Wrapping your mind around the old "cowboy chords" but have no idea where to go from there? Here is a simple concept helping you break free and stimulating creativity.

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

In order to enhance your musical expression and clearly communicate your ideas, you must understand how to think creatively when you play guitar.

Tom Hess helps you to find band members with the same drive and ambition that you have.

Dominants should be the arpeggios you study first since they are used regularly in Blues/Rock progressions and songs.

Jean-Pierre teaches you about modes, with a small introduction and the `why` and `how` of their existence

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney has advice for artists on ways to cope with the annual holiday seasons.

Using the same guitar soloing approach as everyone else can only lead to one result: a guitar solo that has a very similar sound to nearly every other guitar solo out there.