Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

UK guitarist Alan Williamson shows you how to use more fingers, tones and frets in your licks.

Can you deliver interesting and musical solos? Do it by looking for ways to add more variety.

Mike Campese serves up a blended scale you can use to set your music apart from the ordinary.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas with an insightful answer to a common question.

Canadian guitarist David Martone talks about easy drum sound replacement.

G9er Will Landrum is back with more ways to use the beloved arpreggio.

Music industry consultant Christopher Knab offers invaluable advice and nutritious food for thought.

Why do a relatively small number of your fans attend your gigs? Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney offers his studied opinions.

One of the best ways to memorize your scales on the neck and help you break out of the patterns you have been stuck in.

Strategies that successful independent artists use day in and day out to profit from their passion for music.

Tom Hess urges you to get beyond `guitarist` and `musician` to uncover the `artist` within.

How to produce recordings that sound great and are easy on the ears.

Danny Jones is back, taking wide interval links and making cool runs out of 'em.

Here`s why you leave mastering to the masters, by Canadian guitarist David Martone.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab talks about keys to staying in a label`s good graces.

More ideas to help you memorize your scales break out of the patterns and ruts you have been stuck in.

The third installment of strategies that successful independent artists use to profit from their passion for music.

How long you practice is not always as important as what you choose to focus your practice time on.

"Is learning music theory really necessary for me?" Patrick DeCoste explores possible answers.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney is back promoting the idea of inclusion.

Danny Jones knows you don`t have enough time to practive - or maybe you do.

A look at Canadian guitarist David Martone latest educational tour and photo op.

Canadian guitarist David Martone`s recent clinic with Jennifer Batten.

These ideas will really add some spice to your playing.

Do you know the difference between an amateur and a professional? Learn the difference between `just playing well` and mastery.

Patrick DeCoste returns with tips on `playing to the sound`.

The fourth installment of strategies that successful independent artists use to profit from their passion for music.

Most guitarist are predominantly one or the other. Here`s some ways to achieve some balance.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas helps you to both figure out, and master, the neck.

Guitarist Randy Ellefson hopes you never need this article. But if you do, read on.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney is back to help influence your priorities.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab helps you write a cover letter, complee with a prototype and instructions.

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.

A quick look at various picking techniques.

Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess was a bad student too, but he got his act together, and you can as well.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab shows that access to the audience mean you need to know who`s guarding the gate.

A story of one humongous traveling guitar.

Complex music requires thought and preplanning in order to get the best results.

Canadian guitarist David Martone`s most recent Atlantic clinic tour debrief.

How to avoid "wrong notes" on your way to creating interesting, improvised lines.

Fitting those killer electric guitar tracks into the mix at mixdown.