Welcome to the December holiday edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. Instrumental guitar music is clearly considered underground by the mainstream music press, but it's an underground with a rabid and enthusiastic fan base. To do our part to serve that fan base, we've added 23 releases to the site in the past two months, including instrumental CDs by Allan Holdsworth, Chris Francis, Matt Konfirst, Windham Hill Holiday Guitar Collection, Doug Johns, Keith Andrew, Edward Box, Leon, John McLaughlin, Strunz/Farah, Cooper Tisdale & Friends, Konstantine Andeson, Greg Howe, Viva Carlos!, Joe Satriani, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Alex Masi, Armik, Dweezil Zappa, Robben Ford, Kevin Ferguson, Belleville/Clemenzi, Daryl Stuermer and Kopecky. You can now listen to and order 1983 instrumental releases by 1120 different artists. Visit the Instrumental Guitar Showcase to browse and listen to all of these dynamic recordings, or check out our recommendations page. If you've released an instrumental project, get all the details about merchandising through Guitar Nine, and decide if it's right for your music (if you've released a guitar-oriented CD with vocals, click here).
The odds of doing anything significant in the music business are long from the start, but artists who can't think beyond the short term have it thousands of times harder.
Guitar Nine Records December-January 2006 newsletter.
Can you cure a case of guitar hero "Clone-itus?" Here`s some cure-all.
Understanding how a key can be made to reveal its chordal treasure is invaluable knowledge.
Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess was a bad student too, but he got his act together, and you can as well.
Complex music requires thought and preplanning in order to get the best results.
How to avoid "wrong notes" on your way to creating interesting, improvised lines.
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney teaches you to be analytical about alleged personal attacks.
A well maintained and growing email list can be a mighty, mighty tool.
Music industry guru Christopher Knab shows that access to the audience mean you need to know who`s guarding the gate.
Canadian guitarist David Martone`s most recent Atlantic clinic tour debrief.
Fitting those killer electric guitar tracks into the mix at mixdown.
Flamenco, Balkan, Persian & More
I don`t care if things could go wrong because the most important thing is that someone like Mike Varney believes in me and in my music.
Since instrumental guitar music isn`t a big seller, it gets short changed quite often. As a matter of fact, finding the Guitar Nine website was a revelation to me. I didn`t realize there were so many musicians doing instrumental music.
Pressing Musical Boundaries
Down Under Guitar/Organ Trio
Cerebrally Extracted Quirky Ideas
Blending His Diverse Influences
