Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

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.

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

Music industry guru Christopher Knab gives a basic introduction to your rights and other issues regarding your original songs and recordings.

Tom Hess talks about how you can by use creative rhythm guitar practice methods to write your own rock and metal guitar riffs.

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.

A lot has been written on Blues soloing, but preciously little on creative Blues rhythm playing. Don`t get caught playing the usual three power chords.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.