Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

Taking you behind the making of Scott`s upcoming album "From The Blindside".

How do you want your band remembered? Great ideas from Draven Grey.

Mike Campese takes you through another section of this excellent Niccolo Paganini piece.

Five steps to better phrasing and cooler guitar solos.

Getting the most from a single sequence, with Tommaso Zillio.

No matter your level, these five tips will greatly improve your compositional ability.

Guy talks about the odd, weird and even useful augmented chord.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney with an old-school approach to boost show attendance.

Is the ability to write songs a gift, or can it be learned? Lou Lombardi has the answer.

Without stamina and strength, the fretting hand won`t respond and will let you down! Use Zammit`s trills workout to build your hand.

Canadian guitarist David Martone heads out to Eastern Europe and pieces together a mini-tour.

Explore some other (more advanced) variations of the same sequence, with Tommaso Zillio.

Ysrafel explodes a few myths about learning music theory.

Paul Tauterouff breaks things up a little bit to talk about some rockin` rhythm guitar ideas.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney helps you find the blind faith that was once there.

A mind game method for creating the right solo for the song.

Mike Campese helps you to increase your speed and technical facility.

All of the things you need to do, or practice, in order to reach you playing goals.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab tracks the shift from a "sales-to-a-customer" model to monetizing access to music.

Get the most you can out of the rehearsal time you have scheduled.

Inspired by Jeff Beck`s cover of "A Day In The Life"? Learn how you can play more melodically.

Ideas that make good melodic sense whether you play them fast or slow.

Zammit`s back with the first part of his challenging and beneficial chromatic exercises.

Where did they all go? Quality conscious, savvy collectors are grabbing up the last of `em.

Scott`s tackles the unteachable, and talks about adding bends, slides, and killer vibrato to your solo work

Canadian guitarist David Martone has been busy lately, and has a full clinic schedule this summer.

Mike Campese gives you exercises and tios on how to pedal your way to musical nirvana.

Don`t let yourself get worse but not trying to get better.

Ysrafel covers vibrato technique in great detail in this informative lesson.

Tom Hess offers three reasons why you may not be getting big results from taking guitar lessons.

Music is a synthesis of technique and art; making sure you include both in equal measure.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab delivers the truth to a lot of musicians who may not be ready to hear it.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney wants to help you turn that situation around today.

Here are more exercises to develop and improve outside picking and alternate picking.

Here is a great way of acquiring some useful improvisational tools, improving your technique, and more.

Zammit`s back with the second part of his challenging and beneficial chromatic exercises.

Canadian guitarist David Martone is no longer confined to the boundaries of the stage. Find out why.

Scott Allen explodes the myth of the pentatonic scale being only appropriate for beginners.

Mike Campese introduces you to techniques from his 2010 CD.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab reminds us that money changes everything, and if you hope to make any, you need to read this.

If have a sincere interest in helping your beginning guitar students, read Tom Hess now.

Guy Pople shares his experiences with creating his own album with the Virtual Strangers cyberband.