Instrumental Guitar Site Marks 20th Anniversary
Welcome to the June edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. June of 1996 marked our entry into cyberspace, and after twenty great years, Guitar Nine has become well known for providing a wide variety of free instructional material, news and information. To celebrate, six guest columnists have submitted seven excellent articles on a range of musical topics of interest to independent musicians. 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
Creating Awesome Sweep Picking Licks
Improve your guitar technique while learning the proper way to sweep those licks.
Don't Stop Growing as a Guitarist! Here' s How to Keep Challenging Yourself
But if you want to keep progressing, you have to make the decision to grind it out.
How To Prepare For Your Next Gig As A Session Guitarist
Ensure that you don't come across as an amateur in a situation where you're trying to impress the people who hired you.
Interview: Dimitry Scopelliti
My music a mix between the aggression of metal and the madness and extravagance of prog-instrumental-rock, I don't close myself in within just a single genre.
Interview: Randy Holden
Music is the only thing that transcends this realm. It's the one form of communication that does transcend everything else in the material world. That's probably why everybody loves music so much.
Interview: Renaud Louis-Servais
It's much more difficult to attract the audience without vocals. For that reason, it's very important to build some nice and attractive themes and melodies in instrumental music.
More Impact With Less Shred And No Blues?
David Sertl thinks it time that guitarists move beyond "Satryngvai Shredblues".
Newsletter June-July 2016
Guitar Nine's June-July 2016 newsletter.
Picking And Independence
These exercises and examples will help you to improve your finger independence as well as your picking.
Using The Octave Pattern In Real-Life Guitar Playing Scenarios
The octave pattern is not as user-friendly for learning to play the notes on a fretboard as many teachers would like players to think.