Leading Instrumental Guitar Site Marks Anniversary

Guitar Nine Celebrates 5 Years Online

June-July 2001 · June 2001

Welcome to the June edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. June of 1996 marked our entry into cyberspace, and after five years, Guitar Nine has become the leader in providing the widest selection of instrumental guitar recordings, news and information. To celebrate, we've added 21 new releases to the site, including instrumental CDs by Chris Bergson, Metal Mike Chlasciak, Curtis, Torben Enevoldsen, Kada, Denis Taaffe, Dennis Harold Lotka, Pat Thomi, David T. Chastain, Paul Nelson, Chaz DePaolo & Bleu Sketch, Sergio Zurawski, Pascal Allaigre, Alternate Realities, Artland, Theodore Ziras, Jill Yan, Anomaly, and Steve Trovato. You can now listen to and order 587 instrumental releases by 365 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

25 columns

Guest Columnists

All These Years And No Ears

Doug Jackson

Here's a new way to use your aural abilities to improve your playing.

Guest Columnists

The Business Of Live Performance

Christopher Knab

Music industry guru Christopher Knab is back with an in-depth column on the most important method for selling your CDs.

Guest Columnists

Clean Chord Tapping

Martin Behr

Germany's Martin Behr is back with a lesson on chord tapping with an example from his first CD

Guest Columnists

How Do You Stop People From Raiding The Digital Cookie Jar?

Paul Abbott

The digital rights controversy and how it can affect guitarists like us.

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Innovative Fine Art Guitar Paintings

Paul Chase

Art for lovers of the guitar, must be seen to be appreciated.

Interviews

Interview: Francesco Fareri

Dan McAvinchey

I think that for these great guitar magazines the most important thing is to sell copies, so they are "compelled" to put on covers and dedicate as much space as they can to the most famous guitarists -- in fact, there are always the same names featured! It would be cool to some day see a cover with all the undiscovered ones!

Guest Columnists