Guest Columnists
How To Be A 'Spider-Teacher’: Spinning With Your Students
What do spider webs and teaching methods have in common?
Andy James: The Beginning, The Regrets, The Future
Mavers-Chance catches up with Andy James at Tech Fest.
10 Ways To Promote Your Music Online
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.
How To Prepare For Your Next Gig As A Session Guitarist
Ensure that you don't come across as an amateur in a situation where you're trying to impress the people who hired you.
The Most Important Factors For Building A Music Career
No one succeeds in the music business who doesn't already utilize the five key elements used by massively successful pro musicians.
Why You Can't Attract Guitar Students During The Summer
Start learning this winter how to mitigate the usual summer slowdown in your guitar teaching business.
Outgrowing Your Music And Band
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses how to move on when it's time to move on.
The Only Way To Succeed As A Guitar Teacher
Any guitar teacher who achieves great success fully understands how they share a lot in common with anyone who has ever climbed to the top of Mt. Everest.
Why I Do What I Do
Music industry guru Christopher Knab rewinds his career, providing a detailed account 'then to now'.
The Worst Questions To Ask About Building A Music Career
To grow your music career fast, you need to understand which questions you are asking that are leading you down the wrong path.
Why You Aren't Beating The Guitar Teaching Competition In Your City
Sad but true: almost 100% of guitar instructors choose 'mediocrity' as their standard of achievement.
Why Some Guitar Teachers Are More Successful Than Everyone Else
Don't be clueless about what you must do to become a successful guitar teacher.
The Secret To Becoming A Successful Professional Musician
Get your music career going on the right track by following the same approach used by Olympic competitors who succeed on the highest platform in the world.
Six Ways To Attract Tons Of New Guitar Students
Six points that will help you understand what you must do to clearly demonstrate your overwhelming value as a guitar teacher so you can attract more students.
Seven Questions That Sabotage Your Guitar Teaching Success
Learn the differences between guitar teaching business 'myths' and 'reality'.
Building A Successful Career In The Music Industry
Comparing the opposing mindsets of successful and unsuccessful musicians.
Five Methods For Getting Into The Music Business That Lead To Failure
Before you will become a highly successful professional musician, you need to get rid of several false beliefs that will cause you to fail in your music career.
Making It In The Music Business
Musicians who build and sustain successful music careers utilize an entirely different set of skills, thought processes and values.
What You Need To Know To Teach Guitar Lessons
Here are 11 common guitar teaching mistakes that less experienced teachers make.
Why You Should Forget About Most Common Guitar Teacher Advice
Reach your full potential and become part of the small percentage of highly successful guitar teachers.
Secrets To Achieving Great Success As A Guitar Teacher
Helping guitar teachers understand the psychology behind achieving success in their guitar teaching businesses.
How To Promote Your Career And Build Your Fan Base
There is no doubt that having a major following of fans for your music is crucial to big and long lasting success in the music industry.
Design Simple, But Effective Music Promo Materials
Music industry guru Christopher Knab offers three tips to help you promote your career, and enhance your chances of being offered opportunities.
Streaming Music Revenue Payments
Music industry guru Christopher Knab talks about the money flow.
Are You Getting Paid to Criticize?
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney offers up positive approaches to negative circumstances
Ten Costly Guitar Teaching Business Mistakes
Tom Hess takes on your teaching business, helping you avoid mistakes that may be costing you big money.
Be A Master Musician
Music industry guru Christopher Knab speaks about the appetite for perfection. A need to be not just good enough but great.
How To Make It In Music By Eliminating Your Risk
Tom Hess discusses what it takes to achieve success as a pro musician.
Top 10 CD Design Tips
Music industry guru Christopher Knab offers simple basics on graphic considerations when designing album artwork.
Marry A Bank Robber To Promote Your Music
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney reminds us to think outside the box.
Copyright and Songwriting Basics
Music industry guru Christopher Knab gives a basic introduction to your rights and other issues regarding your original songs and recordings.
I Get E-Mails - Boy, Do I Get E-Mails
Music industry guru Christopher Knab with a few words of advice to one over-exuberant, well-intentioned,would-be music industry professional.
Streaming Royalties Suck Now, But Just Be Patient
Music industry guru Christopher Knab reminds musicians that streaming music is still in its infancy.
Mediocre Media Core
Yes, there are other avenues beyond reality shows by which new bands can try to build a career.
Tom Hess Music Career Advice: Interview II
Wagner's recent conversation with Tom Hess featuring a critique of common guitar playing advice.
Tom Hess Music Career Advice: Interview
Wagner's recent conversation with Tom Hess on how to become a successful pro musician.