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Vol. 20, No. 2: August-September 2015

Guitar Playing, Teaching Guitarists, And More

Six Guest Columns, Three New Interviews For August
August-September 2015 ยท August 2015

Welcome to the August edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. For over nineteen years, Guitar Nine has provided a wide selection of guitar-oriented instructional columns, news and information, and our August-September issue is certainly no exception. Six excellect articles are available in the issue, covering a range of musical topics of interest to independent musicians. Also, please enjoy sampling some great music released by over 1000 musicians we've worked with over the past 19 years! Remarkably, over 200 musicians have written guest columns for this site since 1997.

In this issue

9 columns
Guest Columnists
Simon Candy

Chords Are Not Just For Rhythm Playing

Simon Candy

Chords have the potential to bring a whole new element to your soloing providing cool, unique, and contrasting textures amongst the single note lines you play.

Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

How To Clean Up Your Blues Guitar Licks

Tom Hess

Here you'll learn several creative blues guitar techniques that will make your blues phrases sound much more expressive.

Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

How To Quickly Correct Your Guitar Playing Problems

Tom Hess

Most likely, your lack of progress is the result of years of bad playing habits. Let's correct those habits.

Interviews

Interview: Gary Borden

Dan McAvinchey

I find that you must have constant activity to create and maintain the interest of people. Facebook is a great way to share new projects with friends and fellow musicians but it doesn't reach people outside your circle.

Interviews

Interview: Paul Bibbins

Dan McAvinchey

People tell me that my music sounds unique for this day and age. I don't know if that's actually the case; but I will tell you that I'll try to sound as differently as I can, for as long as I can.

Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Major Triad Arpeggios

Mike Campese

Mike Campese will help master your triads in all 12 keys, focusing on the sharp keys for the major triads.

Newsletters
Guitar Nine Newsroom

Newsletter August-September 2015

Guitar Nine Newsroom

Guitar Nine's August-September 2015 newsletter.

Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

The Secret To Becoming A Successful Professional Musician

Tom Hess

Get your music career going on the right track by following the same approach used by Olympic competitors who succeed on the highest platform in the world.

Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

Six Ways To Attract Tons Of New Guitar Students

Tom Hess

Six points that will help you understand what you must do to clearly demonstrate your overwhelming value as a guitar teacher so you can attract more students.

Also carried

First ran elsewhere

The survey that ran with it

72 answers

What most influences your choice to buy a particular album or recording (2015)?

Reputation of artist
39%
Hearing on a streaming service
22%
Seeing the artist live
17%
Reading an article about the artist
11%
Word of mouth or recommendation
6%
Reading review(s)
6%
Advertising
0%
Hearing on the radio
0%
Percentages of 72 answers. All the surveys.
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