June-July 2018

Vol. 23, No. 1: June-July 2018
Instrumental Guitar Site Marks 22nd Anniversary
Guitar Nine Celebrates Latest Milestone With Eight New Features

Welcome to the June anniversary edition of the Guitar Nine on-line magazine. June of 1996 marked our entry into cyberspace, and after twenty-two great years, Guitar Nine has become well known for providing a wide variety of free instructional material, news and information. Writing music, mining minor scales, and music promotion are just a small sampling of the subjects found in this issue. In total, seven guest columnists have submitted eight original articles on a range of musical topics of interest to practicing musicians. After working through the information and lessons, please sample some excellent music released by the over 1400 musicians we've worked with over the past 22 years! Interestingly, we've now published over 220 artist interviews, while over 210 musicians and industry experts have written close to 1200 guest columns for this site since 1996.

Dan McAvinchey
Guitar Haus

Did you ever wonder where confidence comes from? How is it possible to have confidence at times, and suddenly lose confidence at critical moments?

Luca Sellitto
Luca Sellitto

Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the “5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.

Tommaso Zillio
Tommaso Zillio

Learning to use musical form will help you "cast" an idea into an entire song.

Chris Byrd
Chris Byrd

Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the “5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.

Cassie Steele
Cassie Steele

Having a solid strategy for promoting your music and building your fanbase is so important - the good news is that there are endless ways to promote your music online.

Mike Campese
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

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

James Rosocha
James Rosocha

Additional rhythmic variations to practice using the pentatonic scale as the vehicle.

Tommaso Zillio
Tommaso Zillio

Is learning music theory is the way to go, or, will it drain your potential?

Simon Candy
Simon Candy

Learn the sophisticated, awe inspired, and flat out mind-blowing style of percussive acoustic guitar.

Guitar Nine
Guitar Nine

A selection of Guitar Nine (former Guitar Nine Records) logo variations.

Guitar Nine Newsroom
Guitar Nine Newsroom

Guitar Nine's June-July 2018 newsletter.

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