Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

Music industry guru Christopher Knab with a few words of advice to one over-exuberant, well-intentioned,would-be music industry professional.

You might think that the pentatonic scale is just an easy scale but with no depth - well, you are wrong.

Pinpointing some very important factors that will help the student successfully go through and become a serious guitarist.

Perhaps you have considered taking lessons but because someone you know had a disappointing experience with a teacher, you began to doubt if lessons are worth investing your time and money.

There are four mistakes that you can fix that will drastically increase your musical creativity and help you come up with songwriting ideas much faster.

Perhaps you have considered taking lessons but because someone you know had a disappointing experience with a teacher, you began to doubt if lessons are worth investing your time and money.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab reminds musicians that streaming music is still in its infancy.

There`s always a lot of discussion about what to practice, but you should also consider how to practice.

Mike`s tips are designed to help you maximize your guitar practice efficiency and effectiveness

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

An arrangement for fingerstyle guitar from the 1978 horror flick, written by the director John Carpenter.

Many guitarists play truly inspiring guitar phrases without playing in a very technical manner, and you can do this to when you follow the steps in this article.

It does not necessarily have to take you a very long time to gain the skills needed to accurately express yourself through music.

Opening your mind to new ideas and new intuitions about ways to improve your guitar playing.

Two notes together can move in more ways than up and down together.

UK-based guitarist Sam Dawson will help to eliminate beginning fears and get you playing some picking patterns in no time.

The reality is, you don`t have to settle for limited financial gains in your guitar teaching business.

The CAGED system as is commonly taught has a number of problems that prevent you to reach your full potential.

Unity and variety in songwriting are essential to keeping a song balanced and maintaining interest throughout the entire piece of music.

Guitar exercises, in and of themselves, do not guarantee (or produce) massive progress in your musical skills.

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

Most guitar players have a tendency to use a single (often limiting) approach to songwriting that holds them back from achieving the results they want.

Here is a method to find out how much your vibrato has improved over the last 6-12 months of playing guitar.

Paul Kleff offers a simple, orderly way to analyze songs and reduce them into small, easily-practiced parts that can be mastered individually and then assembled into the complete song.

There is a simple way to learn music theory (more than one in fact).

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

Combining fretted notes with sustaining open strings underneath gives the illusion that the guitar has more strings than just six sometimes.

When you are confident on stage to the degree you are confident playing at home alone then any fear will not hinder your focus and performance.

Have you ever had a hard time getting your guitar students to make significant progress from one lesson to the next? There is a simple adjustment you can make.

It takes most guitar players many years before they learn how to practice guitar in a way that is both productive and enjoyable.

How to remember the notes on guitar once and for all and become a more creative guitarist in the process.

Buckner`s recent conversation with Tom Hess offers guitar practice tips.

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

If you are desperate to close the gap between yourself and your guitar - read on.

Yes, there are other avenues beyond reality shows by which new bands can try to build a career.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney reminds us the successful artists are out there meeting everyone and working together, the others never leave home.

Are you playing too much? Well, it may be that you are not using enough pentatonic scales in your soloing!

Buckner`s recent conversation with Tom Hess featuring a critique of common guitar playing advice.

Here are some great ways to overcome guitar practice challenges.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney reminds you to create a newsletter your fans want to read.

Improve your own guitar playing abilities by simply understanding the entire story behind what makes Yngwie so underrated.

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