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April-May 2021
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Moving the Phrygian Dominant scale in a more horizontal fashion across the neck.

February-March 2021
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Examples that will help strengthen your picking, constructed in a more musical fashion.

December-January 2020
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

A great way to connect the five basic major scale patterns.

October-November 2020
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Great when learning modes - hear the sound of each mode over a tonal center.

August-September 2020
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Strengthen your upstrokes so they are as strong as your downstrokes.

June-July 2020
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

If you know all of your scale patterns, but are not sure how to connect them, this lesson will help you.

April-May 2020
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Stuck inside? Take advantage of the time and challenge yourself to get to the next level.

February-March 2020
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Creative ways to move around the fretboard at a blazing fast speed.

December-January 2019
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

This scale is most common in jazz, but can be applied to any style of music.

October-November 2019
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Taking the diminished scale and incorporating it with a basic blues scale box.

August-September 2019
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Even more ideas to spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.

June-July 2019
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Time to build technique and spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.

April-May 2019
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Now, Mike mixes up the rhythms when practicing scales to make things that much more interesting.

February-March 2019
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Building your chops while making practice time more interesting and even, fun.

December-January 2018
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike digs a little deeper into the Altered scale, aka Super Locrian.

October-November 2018
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike teaches soloing over chord changes with a track from his album, "The Fire Within".

August-September 2018
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike has a new album, "The Fire Within". and breaks down a few of the notable tracks.

June-July 2018
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike delivers the keys to unlocking specific sounds, such as the Phrygian dominant mode, from the Harmonic Minor scale.

April-May 2018
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Gaining fluency with triad arpeggios will help your soloing and rhythm playing.

February-March 2018
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike shows you several ways to spice up your riffs, lines and solos with some chromatic passing tones.

December-January 2017
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike teaches you scale sequences (in the Hanon style, adapted from piano) that are great for your dexterity and precision.

October-November 1996
Guitar Haus

Call-and-response practicing to enhance your phrasing and composing.

June-July 1996
Guitar Haus

A number of short lick ideas designed to kick-start your technique.

August-September 1996
Guitar Haus

More short lick ideas to kick-start your technique.

June-July 1996
Guitar Haus

Nowhere to go with ascending licks but up? Dan McAvinchey confronts the problem and gives you several ideas you can use today. Don't just take the easy way out and start descending either.

February-March 1997
Guitar Haus

Stop practicing with boring scales and start testing your fingers with melodic 'riffs' from Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and more.

October-November 1996
Guitar Haus

Stop strumming those simple barre chords, and embellish your chordal work with licks and phrases that blur the distiction between rhythm and lead guitar playing.

August-September 1996
Guitar Haus

Break free of your limiting beliefs about pentatonic scales.

October-November 1997
Paul Kuntz

New Jersey guitarist Paul Kuntz is back and aside from a ravenous appetite, he`s got plans to teach you all about tuplets and fitting the notes to the rhythm.

August-September 1998
Ken Burtch

The beautiful part about the tempered music scale lies in it`s flexibility. One of Ken`s favorite tricks is to take one shape, and use it to move up or down the fretboard in a linear way. The similarities in chord shapes will allow you to do the same.

October-November 1998
Neal Nagaoka

Learn the essentials of the swept arpeggio from one of the masters of the technique.

October-November 2000
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

The official arpeggios of Guitar Nine Records - always play the 9th. Take it away Mike.

December-January 2000
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese is back with a follow up article with even more 9ths for your entertainment.

February-March 2001
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

A classical sounding etude designed to enhance the chops of any serious player.

April-May 2001
Gianluca Piersanti

Guitarist Gianluca Piersanti preaches a serious focus on phrasing.

April-May 2001
Scott Hughes

Break out of those ol` common scales with Mr. Hughes.

April-May 2001
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

How to add a really cool twist to your playing.

June-July 2001
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Taking a violin caprice to the six-string.

August-September 2001
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike is back to teach you to work the neck to squeeze more creativity out of your chording.

October-November 2001
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike is back with a follow up lesson to help you work the neck to squeeze more creativity out of your chording.

December-January 2001
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike is back to help you coordinate your hands, while developing speed and accuracy.

February-March 2002
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike returns with the second part of his column on coordinating your hands, while developing speed and accuracy.

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