We're Celebrating Our 17th Anniversary
Welcome to the June edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. June of 1996 marked our entry into cyberspace, and after seventeen great years, Guitar Nine has become well known for providing a wide variety of free instructional material, news and information. To celebrate, eight guest columnists have submitted excellect articles on a range of musical topics of interest to independent musicians. To date, over 190 musicians have written guest columns since 1997.
In this issue
Bach Cello Suite No. 1
Two for one - a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar, along with some timeless advice.
Building Confidence in Your Live Performance
When you are confident on stage to the degree you are confident playing at home alone then any fear will not hinder your focus and performance.
Guitar Chord Change Mastery - How To Play Complete Songs
Paul Kleff offers a simple, orderly way to analyze songs and reduce them into small, easily-practiced parts that can be mastered individually and then assembled into the complete song.
How To Know If You Have Mastered Vibrato On Guitar
Here is a method to find out how much your vibrato has improved over the last 6-12 months of playing guitar.
How To Teach Guitar Students To Practice
Have you ever had a hard time getting your guitar students to make significant progress from one lesson to the next? There is a simple adjustment you can make.
Interview: Mika Tyyska
Putting together an album, the way I tend to do them, is a long and hard journey. It took three years between the first and second album.
Newsletter June-July 2013
Guitar Nine's June-July 2013 newsletter.
Open String Licks
Combining fretted notes with sustaining open strings underneath gives the illusion that the guitar has more strings than just six sometimes.
The Rediscovered: George Cunningham
Delivering The Unfamiliar
The Rediscovered: Grant Geissman Quintet
Audiophile Jazz Fusion CD/DVD
The Rediscovered: Steve Woolverton
Relentless French Progressive Metal
The Rediscovered: Tankred Best
Exemplary German Instrumentalist
Six Things Guitar Players Don't Understand About Music Theory
There is a simple way to learn music theory (more than one in fact).
Write Better Songs On Guitar By Avoiding These 3 Songwriting Errors
Most guitar players have a tendency to use a single (often limiting) approach to songwriting that holds them back from achieving the results they want.