February-March 2010

Vol. 14, No. 5: February-March 2010
Business Changes Create New Niche Market
Collectors Seeking Higher Quality Buy Final CD Pressings

Welcome to the February edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. As referred to in our "Game Over" column, CD collecting has seemingly passed over from mainstream activity to audiophile pursuit during 2009, and to that end, quality-conscious music fans are quietly snapping up the last remaining available discs. As such, we've added 10 releases to the site in the past two months, including instrumental CDs by David Stockden, Bernard Alcorn, Patrick Butler, Borislav Mitic, Mr. Fastfinger, Svilen Mikov, Infinite Loop, Will Brady and the Melodic Soloists compilation. You can now listen to and order 1891 instrumental releases by 1181 different artists.

Dan McAvinchey
Guitar Haus

Don't fall into the same old trap of convincing yourself that now is not the time.

Guitar Nine Newsroom
Guitar Nine Newsroom

Guitar Nine Records February-March 2010 newsletter.

Paul Tauterouff
Paul Tauterouff

Paul Tauterouff breaks things up a little bit to talk about some rockin` rhythm guitar ideas.

Scott Allen
Scott Allen

Scott`s tackles the unteachable, and talks about adding bends, slides, and killer vibrato to your solo work

Mika Tyyska
Mika Tyyska

A mind game method for creating the right solo for the song.

Mike Campese
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese helps you to increase your speed and technical facility.

Tom Hess
Tom Hess Opus 2

All of the things you need to do, or practice, in order to reach you playing goals.

Mike O'Malley
Mike O'Malley

Inspired by Jeff Beck`s cover of "A Day In The Life"? Learn how you can play more melodically.

Dan Sorber
Dan Sorber

Ideas that make good melodic sense whether you play them fast or slow.

Tommaso Zillio
Tommaso Zillio

Explore some other (more advanced) variations of the same sequence, with Tommaso Zillio.

Jean-Pierre Zammit
Jean-Pierre Zammit

Zammit`s back with the first part of his challenging and beneficial chromatic exercises.

Ysrafel
Ysrafel

Ysrafel explodes a few myths about learning music theory.

Josip Pesut
Josip Pesut

Get the most you can out of the rehearsal time you have scheduled.

David Martone
David Martone

Canadian guitarist David Martone heads out to Eastern Europe and pieces together a mini-tour.

Tim Sweeney
Tim Sweeney

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney helps you find the blind faith that was once there.

Christopher Knab
Christopher Knab

Music industry guru Christopher Knab tracks the shift from a "sales-to-a-customer" model to monetizing access to music.

Dan McAvinchey
Guitar Haus

Where did they all go? Quality conscious, savvy collectors are grabbing up the last of `em.

Dan McAvinchey
Guitar Haus

Regardless of the economic slowdown, people tend to want to download a lot of their music for free, thus leaving artists without income that would be generated through royalties from CD sales.

Guitar Nine
Guitar Nine

Acoustically Combining Ethnic Influences

Guitar Nine
Guitar Nine

Ambient Neo-Progressive Cyber-Rock

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