Be Sure To Visit
Columnists & Interviews
Resources/Other
|
Click here for a printer-friendly version of "Current Headline".
|
|
|
Guitar Nine Records Marks An Anniversary
Leading Instrumental Guitar Site Celebrates 14 Years Online
June-July, 2010
 elcome to the June edition of Guitar Nine Records' on-line magazine. June of 1996 marked our entry into cyberspace, and after fourteen great years, Guitar Nine Records has become the leader in providing the widest selection of instrumental guitar recordings, news and information. To celebrate, we've added another 12 releases to the site in the past two months, including instrumental CDs by Sandro Camerin, Michael Abdow, Barry Finnerty, Gianfranco Continenza, Microbazaar, Trinity Xperiment, Jon Herington, McLaughlin Tribute, Cyril Achard, Boyman, Harry Kapeliaris, Mike Campese and the Guitar Masters. You can now listen to and order
1841 instrumental releases by 1170 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 Records, and decide if it`s right for your music (if you`ve released a guitar-oriented CD with vocals, click here).
Be sure to visit the Guitar Nine SoundCheck page, which allows you to 'peek in' to the order system to find out the latest CDs bought online through Guitar Nine Records. You'll also find a list of the eighty-five (85!) newest releases and additions available from our extensive list of instrumental guitar CDs. Also browse the comprehensive style-specific SoundChecks, special category SoundChecks, state and country SoundChecks, and guitarist nationality SoundChecks.
Last edition's survey results are in! We asked respondents which price point for CDs competes most favorably with a iTunes album. $15.00 including shipping was the top answer, with $12.00 being the next most popular upper limit. We've got a great new, very simple, anonymous survey that you can answer in about five seconds to let us know what kind of music you tend to look for and purchase online.
This edition's guest columnists bring technique, guitar instruction and music business expertise directly to your web browser. We've got eleven fresh articles altogether - ten by returning columnists and one written by a new contributor. Canadian guitarist David Martone is back with "Zone Recording: Wireless". Tom Hess returns with "Big Mistakes You Should Avoid When Teaching Beginning Guitar Students". Mike Campese puts out another excellent technique column based on his new CD, "Electric City Song Shred Excerpts". Kole returns with another column "3 Uncommon Practicing Ideas". Guitarist Jirakit Somame is back with the first part of his article entitled "Speed Drill Ideas, Part 1". Guitarist Guy Pople returns with his article "DIY: Record And Release Your Own Albums". Jean-Pierre Zammit also rejoins us with his tips in "Legato Exercises". Guitarist Mike O`Malley is back with more tips in, "A Minor Solo Ideas". Marketing expert Christopher Knab returns with more tough love in "Band Agreements And Why You Need One" Guitarist Scott Allen offers some great playing ideas in "Pentatonic Scales: The Not-So-Secret Weapon". Our new columnist is Oscar Ortega with "One Reason You Might Not Be THAT Good (And How To Change It)".
The June update includes a new interview with Berklee faculty member and shred guitarist Joe Stump.
This edition we're shining the spotlight on four of the most outstanding artists from the eleven years of the Undiscovered series profiles - we're calling it, The Rediscovered. Think of it as the best of the best of The Undiscovered artists - another chance to check in with guitar oriented musicians and bands you may have missed the first time around.
Our June edition also features new books recently published and new editions of classic books on our resource pages -- Label Resources, Recording Resources, MIDI Resources and Guitar Tabulature Resources. Be sure to stop in and check out some of these excellent books.
We return, as always, with promotional material, audio clips and ordering information for Guitar Nine Records releases. Our overall mission continues to be to help you to achieve your musical goals, whatever they may be.
 Guitar Nine Records is a guitar-oriented record label located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our lastest CD is the compilation "Handz Of Danz", fourteen tracks of hard rock, fusion, metal and blues from six guitarists named Dan. Our first CD, 'Guitar Haus', was released in 1997 by guitarist-composer Dan McAvinchey. McAvinchey also has written the "The Power To Release" columns in our on-line magazine that can help you to understand the steps that must be taken to release your own record. McAvinchey is currently working on his second solo CD for Guitar Nine Records.
Guitar Nine Records is dedicated to the idea that the guitar is probably one of the most expressive instruments ever invented, and with the use of effects and recording techniques, has an unlimited sonic palette. As much as we admit that there are only twelve notes, and all twelve have been played at sometime or another on a guitar, we firmly believe that the surface has only been scratched in terms of the creative uses for guitar and of the sounds that have yet to be discovered. We want to make sure that the quest for new uses for the guitar continues, and is celebrated and encouraged. This on-line magazine is our way of spreading the wealth of creative ideas around the globe and of keeping the guitar as an essential instrument in recordings well into the next century.
We believe there is so much you can do with your guitar playing besides learning riffs however. There are numerous sites on the internet that offer guitar lessons, techniques, licks, etc., but you may wish to explore the possibility of using your abilities on the guitar as a springboard into other areas. You may have a desire to write music, record songs, build a studio, or even release your own CD. We hope that this web site will, over time, inspire you to set greater goals for yourself than you may have ever thought possible.
We would appreciate hearing from you via e-mail if you have any comments or ideas on how to make this web site even better.
Other Information in English
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
- And 59 more in the Other Information in English series, view the index
|
|
