Guitar Nine Columns: Guitar Technique

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Here are some great ways to overcome guitar practice challenges.

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.

Let`s have a look at some of the problems that may prevent you and many other blues players from realizing their musical potential.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas has an answer for you - but the devil is in the details.

Here it is, it`s right here, it`s here now and it`s right here for you - scale practicing that opens up creative options.

To become an excellent 7 string guitar player, you will need to fully understand how to overcome any challenges that arise with your new instrument.

Here`s how to play in 4/4 time, switch time signatures and remain in time.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas helps you become the greatest guitarist and musician you can possibly be.

Take a small pattern and turn it into a larger phrase that will sound cohesive.

Mike brings up some of the typical reasons why so many guitarists are unable to improve their musical skills.

Mike Campese introduces you to a cool scale sequence that is not commonly used.

Mike discusses one of the most effective methods for practicing chord changes.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas provides some clarity on the subject of scales.

Backstage warm ups take on their own quirks, stories and connections that help to explain their success and approach to their music.

Playing high-pitched squeals that are so important in the style of metal players (and others).

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas teaches you that practicing one thing affects everything else we play, for good or for bad.

Building on the last two columns, Mike wraps up the series with a G minor arpeggio progression.

Michael Knight has a 4-note diminished scale for you to add to your repertoire.

Is it really necessary to know how to read music? Let`s open this can of worms.

Building on the last column, Mike adds more examples here, building on his previous sweeping columns.

Michael Knight returns with the first installment of his Exotic Scales series.