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

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

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

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

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

I play instrumental blues and rock. Freddie King`s instrumental records really had an impact on me. I can`t sing but those records showed me there`s still a lot you could say without vocals.

A lot of people don`t realize that the guitar is a great melodic instrument, and can easily take the job of a singer. You can take a vocal melody, play it on a guitar and make it just as expressive or more so.

Guitar Nine's April-May 2014 newsletter.

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.

Greatest Unsigned Rock Band

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

Guitar Nine's February-March 2014 newsletter.

Delivering Memorable Instrumental Rock

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

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

An Expression Of Various Styles

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.

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

An Edge Rock Instrumental Band

Seriously Robotic Riffage

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.

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

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

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

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

Cross-cultural Fusion Of Music

Capturing His Fiery Playing

Fist-Pumping Rock & Metal

Forging An Eclectic Sound

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.

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.

Guitar Nine's December-January 2013 newsletter.

Guitar Nine's October-November 2013 newsletter.

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.

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.

Look What The Stork Brought

These Guys Rock!