Guitar Nine Columns: Guitar Technique

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.

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.

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`s always a lot of discussion about what to practice, but you should also consider how to practice.

Mike`s tips are designed to help you maximize your guitar practice efficiency and effectiveness

Mike Campese is back with excerpts from his latest CD, "Chameleon".

An arrangement for fingerstyle guitar from the 1978 horror flick, written by the director John Carpenter.

Many guitarists play truly inspiring guitar phrases without playing in a very technical manner, and you can do this to when you follow the steps in this article.

Opening your mind to new ideas and new intuitions about ways to improve your guitar playing.

Mike is back with the second part of a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar.

Two notes together can move in more ways than up and down together.

UK-based guitarist Sam Dawson will help to eliminate beginning fears and get you playing some picking patterns in no time.

The reality is, you don`t have to settle for limited financial gains in your guitar teaching business.

The CAGED system as is commonly taught has a number of problems that prevent you to reach your full potential.

Guitar exercises, in and of themselves, do not guarantee (or produce) massive progress in your musical skills.

Here is a method to find out how much your vibrato has improved over the last 6-12 months of playing guitar.

Paul Kleff offers a simple, orderly way to analyze songs and reduce them into small, easily-practiced parts that can be mastered individually and then assembled into the complete song.

There is a simple way to learn music theory (more than one in fact).

Two for one - a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar, along with some timeless advice.

Combining fretted notes with sustaining open strings underneath gives the illusion that the guitar has more strings than just six sometimes.

Have you ever had a hard time getting your guitar students to make significant progress from one lesson to the next? There is a simple adjustment you can make.

If you are desperate to close the gap between yourself and your guitar - read on.

Are you playing too much? Well, it may be that you are not using enough pentatonic scales in your soloing!

It takes most guitar players many years before they learn how to practice guitar in a way that is both productive and enjoyable.

How to remember the notes on guitar once and for all and become a more creative guitarist in the process.

Buckner`s recent conversation with Tom Hess offers guitar practice tips.

Explaining inside/outside picking, and how it can help you alternate pick difficult passages.

Showing you how to apply 5/8 time to your playing and how to change meters smoothly.

Let`s have a look at some of the problems that may prevent you and many other blues players from realizing their musical potential.

Here are some great ways to overcome guitar practice challenges.

Improve your own guitar playing abilities by simply understanding the entire story behind what makes Yngwie so underrated.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas has an answer for you - but the devil is in the details.

Here it is, it`s right here, it`s here now and it`s right here for you - scale practicing that opens up creative options.

To become an excellent 7 string guitar player, you will need to fully understand how to overcome any challenges that arise with your new instrument.

Here`s how to play in 4/4 time, switch time signatures and remain in time.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas helps you become the greatest guitarist and musician you can possibly be.

Take a small pattern and turn it into a larger phrase that will sound cohesive.

Mike brings up some of the typical reasons why so many guitarists are unable to improve their musical skills.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas provides some clarity on the subject of scales.

Backstage warm ups take on their own quirks, stories and connections that help to explain their success and approach to their music.

Playing high-pitched squeals that are so important in the style of metal players (and others).