Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

Tom Hess is back with a second installment on how creativity can be enhanced to improve songwriting and improvisation.

A road map for getting from song conception to the big mix, with Canadian guitarist David Martone.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses the importance of connecting with your audience.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab teaches you the proper form for a press release geared towards movers and shakers in the music industry.

Guitarist Neil Brocklebank`s logistics manager discusses the role of marketing in an independent artist`s strategic toolkit.

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

How picky is too picky when recording your music; an opinon by Peter Stankov.

Let the Sultan of String take you on the exotic scale ride of your life.

Creating a fuller, chock full o` tone sound with double-tracking. Play it again, Randy.

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.

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.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney talks about alternate ways of interpreting both positive and negative feedback.

Music industry consultant Christopher Knab shares his crazy, bizarre and clueless electronic correspondence.

What Dan`s learned, from beginning on an instrument - to sustaining a career.

Ivan Bertolla is here to help you move music composition outside the normal I IV V zone.

Don`t try to do it all! Guitarist Neil Brocklebank`s logistics manager discusses the importance of a great support crew.

Do you want to play arpeggio-like melodies with "ear-caching" tensions? Let the Sultan of String show you how.

Hess guitarist Mike Walsh can`t stress enough the importance of a music education.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas is back with tips on a technical area that is of major concern to players

Do you know them? You must know them! Check out Mike Campese`s essential scales review.

Instrumentalist Joe Bochar, AKA Joboj, plants tongue firmly in cheek to help you burn up the fretboard.

How using only two fingers creates more advanced possibilities for interval riffs.