April Brings Long-Awaited Guitar Releases

Number Of Instrumental Titles Available Tops 1840

April-May 2006 · April 2006

Welcome to the April edition of Guitar Nine's online magazine. We're juiced about all the new music we've added over the past two months, as well as some of the anxiously awaited compilations, reissues and international releases now available. We've added an amazing 51 titles to the site, including instrumental CDs by Germano Seggio, Hpcrazy, The Balls, Frank Gambale, Andre Tonelli, Niels Vejlyt, Coste Apetrea, Dave LaRue, Ino Kang, Joe Satriani, Michael Orlando, Tony MacAlpine, Vinnie Moore, Larry Carlton, Nickos Kapilidis & The Jazz Utopia, Jill Yan, Jimmy Mac, Cornelissen/Vollink, Hightower, Next Order, Freddie Fox, DC Slater, Micheal Skinner, Rippingtons, Robert Sabin, Jon Beedle, Steve Khan, Rez, John Raptis, Andrew Roudny, Whiteful Jazz Quartet, Kada Ad Libitum, D Sound, Mindflowers, Bob Savage, Andre Kunz, Daniel Ward, Roger Matura, Alien Guitar Abduction, Allen Robot Van Wert, Hands On Strings, Stephan Bormann Band, Michel Sajrawy, Dagobert Bohm, Dago, James Hogan, Cinematik, Chambers/Berlin/Fiuczynski and Christopher Dean. You can now listen to and order 1850 instrumental releases by 1049 different artists. Visit the Instrumental Guitar Showcase to browse and listen to all of these dynamic recordings, or check out our recommendations page. If you've released an instrumental project, get all the details about merchandising through Guitar Nine, and decide if it's right for your music (if you've released a guitar-oriented CD with vocals, click here).

In this issue

27 columns

Guest Columnists

5 Paths To $100,000 Per Year - Part 1: Gidget's Way

Sean Farrington

Strategies that successful independent artists use day in and day out to profit from their passion for music.

Guest Columnists

Chromatic Stupidity

Alan Williamson

UK guitarist Alan Williamson shows you how to use more fingers, tones and frets in your licks.

Guest Columnists

Concepts To Improve Your Solos

Jason Sadites

Can you deliver interesting and musical solos? Do it by looking for ways to add more variety.

Guest Columnists

Creative Intervals

Will Landrum

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

Guest Columnists

Deals That Await Successful Independent Music Labels

Christopher Knab

Music industry consultant Christopher Knab discusses what can happen if you get the industry's attention.

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Fire And Inspiration

Tom Hess

Here's how to spark the inspirational flame, and reignite your inner fire.

Interviews

Interview: Jason Sadites

Dan McAvinchey

I just love instrumental guitar music. There is something great about hearing somebody write music that will keep people's interest without having the vocal to rely on.

Interviews

Interview: John 5

Martin Schmidt

Instrumental music kind of reminds me of little orchestra or classical pieces, because there's so much information going on. It's a challenge to do, it's really hard to do that stuff.

Interviews

Interview: Johnny A.

Martin Schmidt

I started to get calls from different record labels, they had interest in me, but at the end of the day the didn't know what to do with me, because it's not really jazz, although it's jazzy, it's not really blues, but bluesy.

Guest Columnists