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Vol. 21, No. 5: February-March 2017

New Year, Six New Columns, Tuominen Interview

Improve Your Playing And Knowledge With Fresh Perspectives
February-March 2017 ยท February 2017

Welcome to the February edition of the Guitar Nine on-line magazine. Scales, acoustic playing, and picking are just a few of the subjects found in this issue - along with a new interview with Jartse Tuominen. In total, five guest columnists have submitted six fresh articles on a range of musical topics of interest to practicing musicians. In addition to consuming the information presented, please sample some great music released by over 1000 musicians we've worked with over the past 20 years! Of note, we've published over 200 artist interviews, while nearly 210 musicians and industry experts have written over 1000 guest columns for this site since 1996.

In this issue

8 columns
Guest Columnists
Joe Nevin

10 Steps For The Beginning Self-Taught Guitar Player

Joe Nevin

Check in with Joe Nevin and his 10 rocking guitar techniques you need to know.

Guest Columnists
Tommaso Zillio

Guitarists, Don't Get CAGED, Part 3

Tommaso Zillio

Why you need to stop dividing your fretboard in 5 today.

Interviews

Interview: Jartse Tuominen

Dan McAvinchey

I hear themes in my mind and somehow it goes on paper. Some songs on "Untold Stories" took years to get written and recorded.

Newsletters
Guitar Nine Newsroom

Newsletter February-March 2017

Guitar Nine Newsroom

Guitar Nine's February-March 2017 newsletter.

Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Picking

Mike Campese

These 2-string scale fragment examples will increase your speed and your picking technique.

Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

Regaining Your Guitar Skills After A Long Break

Tom Hess

You will get your skills back again by using these five approaches.

Guest Columnists
Simon Candy

Soloing With Open Strings On Guitar, Part 1

Simon Candy

How to create amazing guitar solos using open strings and pentatonic scale patterns.

Guest Columnists
Tommaso Zillio

Three Reasons Why All Guitar Pros Learn Scales Eventually

Tommaso Zillio

Discover how learning scales actually fosters creativity.

Also carried

First ran elsewhere

The survey that ran with it

153 answers

Which of these 10 guitar brands is your favorite (2017)?

Fender
35%
Ibanez
24%
Gibson
18%
Paul Reed Smith
8%
Jackson
6%
ESP
4%
Yamaha
4%
B.C. Rich
2%
Epiphone
0%
Mosrite of California
0%
Percentages of 153 answers. All the surveys.
← The one before December-January 2016