Guitar Nine Columns: Guitar Technique

Can you benefit from a four-year music education? Let`s explore the options.

Mike Campese with more examples of getting many unique sounds out of just one scale.

A very challenging, but rewarding technique, with guitarist Mick Neil.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas is back discussing the importance of good practice habits.

Can you benefit from a four-year music education? Part 2 of the series.

Five pages of ii-V-I-VI etudes, in all twelve keys.

Tips on adjusting your thinking and broadening your style to expand your audience.

A look at ornamenting interval riffs with melody fragments.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas shows how to do both, and most importantly, how to combine them into one activity.

Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess helps you to identify those inevitable weak areas in your playing.

Want to break out of the blues rut? Danny Jones offers some great starting points.

Get out your brooms and... no wait, check that - here are Mike`s hottest sweep picking techniques.

Hess guitarist Mike Walsh offers great tips for accurate self expression.

Scare your audience (or even make someone hurl) with this ascending (yet descending) pattern.

Here are Mike`s sweep picking techniques applied to a revered classical caprice.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas helps you get beyond "moving fingers" to actually "making music".

If you think a Slash Chord is only found on a Guns `n` Roses album, you really need this article.

Give your listeners a little bit more by throwing in an unexpected time change.

Danny Jones is back with blues licks taken from his recorded solos.

Guitarist Randy Ellefson introduces two basic ideas in counterpoint: oblique motion and contrary motion.

Mike Campese offers an unusual technique that can yield some surprisingly cool results.

Times are perfect for releasing your own CD and this article will give you some planning and recording ideas.

Adding tremendous color and personality to your music through the use of rhythm.

Jason Parker tells you what to expect and how to get a foot in the door.

Guitarist Toshi Iseda reminds musicians that live shows should also be an engaging entertainment experience.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas explores the relationship between musical expression and technique.

Danny Jones is back with blues licks featuring dynamic double stops.

Annihilate your tendencies to rely on reflexes, and use the force instead.

Need more ways to make a simple melody more interesting? Let the Sultan of String show you how.

Will Landrum shows you how to inject your own personal timing and inflections into your playing while staying in groove with the real timing of the music.

Danny Jones is back with licks that will help you break the scale pattern syndrome.

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.

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

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.

If it has ever crossed your mind to have a go, or you just feel vaguely dissatisfied with 6 strings, then read this.

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

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

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.