Guitar Nine Columns: Guitar Technique

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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".

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.