Guitar Nine Columns: Guest Columnists

Before you take another lesson, here are the seven things that your guitar teacher has never told you (that you need to know).

How to breathe new life in your licks and prepare for real-life playing at the same time.

You`re going to like having the ability to write guitar solos that are highly melodic, expressive, and passionate.

Mike Campese touches on a more modern approach, incorporating different types of patterns into odd-numbered lines.

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.

Tom Hess` explores creative possibilities with the low B string.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab offers three tips to help you promote your career, and enhance your chances of being offered opportunities.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney offers up positive approaches to negative circumstances

Try these cool runs which be very beneficial, get take you out of trouble.

Tom Hess takes on your teaching business, helping you avoid mistakes that may be costing you big money.

See how one of the least exciting concepts in music theory can actually help you create awesome licks.

Tom Hess` ideas for creating massive positive change in your ability to improvise rock guitar solos.

Mike Campese delivers patterns that foster some of the fastest, most accurate picking you can imagine.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab talks about the money flow.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab speaks about the appetite for perfection. A need to be not just good enough but great.

Go ahead and `burn` your fretboard with these Major 7th arpeggios.

Knowing all the notes on your fretboard is more useful and simpler than you think. Read here how.

The most frequent fears possessed by most guitarists and what you must do to overcome them and reach your musical goals.

Mike Campese returns with a second set of exercises to help you improve your picking, dexterity, and overall technique.

Tom Hess discusses what it takes to achieve success as a pro musician.

Tom Hess helps you to find band members with the same drive and ambition that you have.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab offers simple basics on graphic considerations when designing album artwork.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney reminds us to think outside the box.

Wrapping your mind around the old "cowboy chords" but have no idea where to go from there? Here is a simple concept helping you break free and stimulating creativity.

Dominants should be the arpeggios you study first since they are used regularly in Blues/Rock progressions and songs.

Mike Campese is back with exercises to help you improve your picking, dexterity, and overall technique.

In order to enhance your musical expression and clearly communicate your ideas, you must understand how to think creatively when you play guitar.

Jean-Pierre teaches you about modes, with a small introduction and the `why` and `how` of their existence

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney has advice for artists on ways to cope with the annual holiday seasons.

Using the same guitar soloing approach as everyone else can only lead to one result: a guitar solo that has a very similar sound to nearly every other guitar solo out there.

A lot has been written on Blues soloing, but preciously little on creative Blues rhythm playing. Don`t get caught playing the usual three power chords.

Mike Campese is back with additional ideas on how to compose - anytime, anywhere.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab gives a basic introduction to your rights and other issues regarding your original songs and recordings.

Tom Hess talks about how you can by use creative rhythm guitar practice methods to write your own rock and metal guitar riffs.

Perhaps you have considered taking lessons but because someone you know had a disappointing experience with a teacher, you began to doubt if lessons are worth investing your time and money.

Mike Campese is back with ideas on how to compose - anytime, anywhere.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab with a few words of advice to one over-exuberant, well-intentioned,would-be music industry professional.

You might think that the pentatonic scale is just an easy scale but with no depth - well, you are wrong.

Pinpointing some very important factors that will help the student successfully go through and become a serious guitarist.

Perhaps you have considered taking lessons but because someone you know had a disappointing experience with a teacher, you began to doubt if lessons are worth investing your time and money.

There are four mistakes that you can fix that will drastically increase your musical creativity and help you come up with songwriting ideas much faster.

Music industry guru Christopher Knab reminds musicians that streaming music is still in its infancy.