Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

How to create amazing guitar solos using open strings and pentatonic scale patterns.

Discover how learning scales actually fosters creativity.

Integrating scales and arpeggios mechanically.

Read about new ideas for using perfect 5ths in your playing.

How to develop a lightning fast tremolo picking guitar technique.

Drastically improve your acoustic guitar playing with these easy to play, advanced sounding chords.

Harp harmonics never fail to immediately grab the attention of those who hear you play them, leaving them spellbound by what they just heard.

Here are Mike`s technique to help spice up your solos, instead of just running up and down arpeggios.

Scales are important to learn, but most instructors have put them emphasis on learning them by heart and simply playing them up and down.

All of your favorite guitar players play in a way that looks amazingly easy.

A dissection of "Not Of This Earth" and "Surfing With The Alien".

Examining the problems of CAGED starting from the effect on your picking hand.

To easily play with greater speed, you`ll need to use the most effective picking technique possible.

Mike Campese teaches you short snippets from some songs off his brand new album "Chapters".

You maybe missing out on a massive range of sounds that you just can`t get otherwise.

With the right approach, Practice will be enjoyable and something you look forward to.

Ensure that you don`t come across as an amateur in a situation where you`re trying to impress the people who hired you.

But if you want to keep progressing, you have to make the decision to grind it out.

David Sertl thinks it time that guitarists move beyond "Satryngvai Shredblues".

Improve your guitar technique while learning the proper way to sweep those licks.

The octave pattern is not as user-friendly for learning to play the notes on a fretboard as many teachers would like players to think.

These exercises and examples will help you to improve your finger independence as well as your picking.

Tom Hess will help you make your guitar solos overflow with emotion,

It isn`t difficult to learn to study theory the correct way. It can actually be easier and more fun than you expect.

How studying other instruments will make you a better, more creative, and superior acoustic guitar player.

Tired of spending so much time practicing without ever seeing big results? Check out this article from Tom Hess.

Just by flatting the third you can develop a whole new shredding sound.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab offers concrete information on booking contracts with venues.

Three cool ways to approach the rhythm of a 12 bar blues - take to your next jam and blow everyone away.

How to carefully observe and learn from the vast library of existing unplugged acoustic songs out there.

Music theory isn;t learning how to write down different notes, or practicing and reciting scales on a guitar. It`s about experiencing the way notes interact and the effect they have on the listener.

Here you`ll discover the three critical guitar phrasing elements that truly great guitarists possess.

Mastering emotional playing will take your playing to the next level

Mike Campese reminds you that if you don`t use it, you will surely lose it.

No one succeeds in the music business who doesn`t already utilize the five key elements used by massively successful pro musicians.

David Sertl is here to address underdevelopment in the educational field of rhythm.

Start learning this winter how to mitigate the usual summer slowdown in your guitar teaching business.

Why general advice fails and what you should do instead.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses how to move on when it`s time to move on.

Mike Campese will help you build on your scales with his string skipping exercises.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab rewinds his career, providing a detailed account `then to now`.

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.