Guitar Nine Columns

A selection of historical Guitar Nine logo variations.

Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess discusses the motivations of a true artist.

Hess guitarist Mike Walsh will help you become a better musician with his keys to success.

Small-handed Chris Juergensen shows you how to stretch to achieve great harmonic choices in chords.

Mike Campese again turns the tried and true triad into an improvisational treat.

Guitarist Neil Brocklebank`s logistics manager discusses the (dis)function of a music critic.

Thicken up lines, phrases and solos with the second double-tracking installment. Play it again, Randy.

Let the Sultan of String explain the finer points of the Yona Nuki and In scales.

Harmonic minor scale soloing and chord substitution made simple through theoretical refocusing.

New and inventive ways to record the ever-elusive acoustic guitar.

Music industry consultant Christopher Knab talks about how labels of various sizes work together to achieve common goals.

Music industry consultant Christopher Knab talks about how labels of various sizes work together to achieve common goals.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney talks about the Book - your personal promotion and marketing book, that is.

There`s very few radio stations who play surf, rockabilly or blues, together with current folk or roots music. It`s always Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera or the Backstreet Boys. I just wish that the kids coming up would have a choice to be able to hear everything on the radio and be exposed to that stuff.

A Passion For Making & Sharing The Music

Brazilian Musical Treat, With Nilson Matta

Arlen Roth's Second Guitarist Goes Solo

Aggressively Pursuing The Hard Rock Agenda

Sweden's Instrumental Storyteller

Settling The Score... With Metal

A Heaping Helping Of Shredded Bliss

16-Year-Old Neo-Classicist Cranks Out Demo

Practicing Instrumental Metallurgist

Appealing To The Emotions & The Intellect

Jazz/Fusion Tone King

Warp-Speed Washington Shredder

Guitar Nine Records June-July 2004 newsletter.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses ways to give your CD sales a much-needed boost.

Music industry consultant Christopher Knab talks about making the best CD cover for your particular style of music.

Changing your studio around can deliver great results, with Canadian guitarist David Martone.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas talks about getting the most out of yourself in order to play at a higher level.

Drew Vics paraphrases the famous Nike slogan and applies it to the six string.

Use this scale to yield great sounds in jazz and ragtime, through perilous horror-film mayhem, cheese-metal and progressive rock fusion.

How to protect yourself when recording covers, as well as ensuring the original songwriter gets his/her due.

The second part of taking a well-known violin caprice to the six-string.

Creating a harmonic relationship between sections and adding to the sense of forward motion - Randy Ellefson is here with some great ideas.

Let the Sultan of String blend, meld, mix and match scales, yielding a unique, exotic effect.

If the U.S. guitar magazines want to have more of an impact with the global community; they need to balance commercialism with the true artistic and innovative expressions of the guitar in many various forms.

A Throwback To '60s & '70s Rock Albums

Guitars In A Pop/Rock Context

Downtempo Electronic Guitar Blend

Croatian Steel-String Fingerstylist