Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

A different perspective on the pentatonic scale using arpeggios.

Mike is focusing on the Japanese Hirajoshi scale in this lesson on exotic scales.

Guy`s second column in a series for experienced guitarists with very little formal knowledge.

Are you frustrated because you are not getting as many people to come to your live shows as you want?

Music industry guru Christopher Knab turns the mike over to his colleague Pete Salazar, with his Musician`s Blueprint for success.

How about opening your mind and opening yourself up to new styles of music? It can only help your guitar playing and musicianship.

Getting back to the studio after years away, and recapturing the fun and the magic.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab intensifies his crusade to help musicians with the business of music.

Internalize what you are learning and use it to develop your own style.

Just when you thought all arpeggio topics had been covered, Mike`s back with triad arpeggio practice ideas.

Do you want to improve your guitar technique, play guitar cleaner, eliminate sloppy playing and unwanted string noise?

Scott Allen continues his tour of arpeggio-land with beautiful ninth chord arpeggios.

Guy`s first column in a series for experienced guitarists with very little formal knowledge.

Canadian guitarist David Martone is back from the snowy Canadian Satriani support tour - with pictures.

Canadian guitarist David Martone enters the world of project management, as he preps for supporting the Satriani tour.

Scott Allen begins his tour of arpeggio-land with beautiful seventh chord arpeggios.

Paul Tauterouff is back with an easy to play sequence that can help you to create some new and interesting sounds.

Nick has new ideas for making your own licks come alive.

Joe continues onward in the series of practicing techniques that require no physical practice.

The very best way to get more people to repeatedly come out and see your band play live is word of mouth.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab destroys the notion of the 10-step program to entertainment success.

There are a lot of ways to go about finding your signature tone.

Here are nine songwriting tips you can use right away, regardless of your current level of technique.

In this installment of CAGED Arpeggios, Guy puts individual shapes to work in replicating chord progressions.

Juan Coronado shows how playing circles with the pick can help you play scales faster by economizing the movement.

Mike Campese serves up a holiday treat - his take on the Grinch`s theme song.

Putting the focus on the metaphysical aspects of the playing the guitar.

Guy`s great way of acquiring some useful improvisational tools, improving your techniques, sharpening your position shifting, and discovering new chord shapes.

You can use the Harmonic Minor scale to add exotic twists to your solos.

Mike Campese returns to revisit more ideas for the Phrygian Dominant scale.

Do you need immediate help starting a successful career in music? Here are four things that will put you on the right track.

Kole teaches three essential and very effective concepts for making music.

Canadian guitarist David Martone talks about his latest clinic and show in Bucharest, Romania.

Take one thing, one approach, one pattern - and master it.

X marks the spot with simple but very powerful strategies on how to achieve more by playing less.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab prods musicians and bands to get creative and think outside of the box.

Here are different ways of musical practice that do not have to be done at home or in a studio.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab offers essential, life-long suggestions, for any and all musicians to remember as they establish and maintain their music careers.

Greigg checks out effects, beginning with pitch shifting or modulation effects.

These two can be some of the most telling sign if a musician is good or great.

Here`s a skill that saves you time and keeps you focused on the real issue that is causing you to make mistakes.

Scott Allen explores altered chords (such as the Jimi Hendrix chord) and more.