Mike`s tips are designed to help you maximize your guitar practice efficiency and effectiveness
Vol. 23, No. 4: December-January 2018
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Mike`s tips are designed to help you maximize your guitar practice efficiency and effectiveness
Opening your mind to new ideas and new intuitions about ways to improve your guitar playing.
Music industry guru Christopher Knab reminds musicians that streaming music is still in its infancy.
It does not necessarily have to take you a very long time to gain the skills needed to accurately express yourself through music.
Guitar Nine's October-November 2013 newsletter.
Look What The Stork Brought
There`s always a lot of discussion about what to practice, but you should also consider how to practice.
An arrangement for fingerstyle guitar from the 1978 horror flick, written by the director John Carpenter.
Mike is back with the second part of a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar.
The CAGED system as is commonly taught has a number of problems that prevent you to reach your full potential.
UK-based guitarist Sam Dawson will help to eliminate beginning fears and get you playing some picking patterns in no time.
Two notes together can move in more ways than up and down together.
Guitar exercises, in and of themselves, do not guarantee (or produce) massive progress in your musical skills.
Unity and variety in songwriting are essential to keeping a song balanced and maintaining interest throughout the entire piece of music.
Beautifully Intimate Fingerstyle
Guitar Nine's August-September 2013 newsletter.
Ripping Hard Rock From Finland
Brilliant Macedonian Axeman
Instrumental Rocker Finds Niche
The reality is, you don`t have to settle for limited financial gains in your guitar teaching business.
Here is a method to find out how much your vibrato has improved over the last 6-12 months of playing guitar.
When you are confident on stage to the degree you are confident playing at home alone then any fear will not hinder your focus and performance.
Most guitar players have a tendency to use a single (often limiting) approach to songwriting that holds them back from achieving the results they want.
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.
Putting together an album, the way I tend to do them, is a long and hard journey. It took three years between the first and second album.
Guitar Nine's June-July 2013 newsletter.
Relentless French Progressive Metal
Audiophile Jazz Fusion CD/DVD
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.
Two for one - a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar, along with some timeless advice.
There is a simple way to learn music theory (more than one in fact).
Combining fretted notes with sustaining open strings underneath gives the illusion that the guitar has more strings than just six sometimes.
I wanted this CD to sound like four musicians jamming live in a studio, and if that`s what it sounds like to someone, then that makes it better.
The unexpected success of "Fill The Sky" has spawned tons of other peripheral stuff that also requires a lot of time and effort such as interviews, endorsements, and guest appearances.
Explaining inside/outside picking, and how it can help you alternate pick difficult passages.
Yes, there are other avenues beyond reality shows by which new bands can try to build a career.
Buckner`s recent conversation with Tom Hess offers guitar practice tips.