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Business Changes Create New Niche Market
Collectors Seeking Higher Quality Buy Final CD Pressings
February-March 2010
 elcome to the February edition of Guitar Nine Records` 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-concious 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
1850 instrumental releases by 1171 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 guitar brand they would choose, if they could choose only one. The top brands, which all garnered over 15% of the votes, included Jackson, Ibanez and Fender. We've got a great new, very simple, anonymous survey that you can answer in about five seconds to let us know how important music quality is to you.
Guest "columnpalooza" once again in February with 15 contributions. Our guest columnists bring opinions, guitar instruction, and live/rehearsal tips to the table, and cover areas such as guitar technique, practicing and the changin music business. We've got fifteen fresh articles altogether - thirteen by returning columnists along with two new contributors. Guitar Nine chief Dan McAvinchey marks his return to writing with "Game Over: There Are No More Discs". Canadian guitarist David Martone is back with "Zone Recording: Heading To Europe". Tom Hess returns with a new practicing column called "8 Steps To Developing A Highly Efficient Practice Schedule". Mike Campese puts out yet another technique column, "Speed Picking". Ysrafel returns with another in his series "Why YOU Should Learn Music Theory". Guitarist Scott Allen is back with his column entitled "A Turn Of Phrase". Guitarist Dan Sorber returns after a hiatus with his new column "Creative Melodic Development". Jean-Pierre Zammit also rejoins us with his tips in "Chromatic Stretch, Part 1". Guitarist Mike O`Malley is back with more ideas in, "How To Control A Melody". Marketing expert Christopher Knab returns with his thoughts in "Oh How The Music Business Keeps Changing". Guitarist Tommaso Zillio has some great advice in "Ideas Without Limits, Part 2". Back with more for you is Paul Tauterouff with "Dropped-D Rhythm Guitar Patterns". Our new contributors include Mika Tyyska with "Mr. Fastfinger Turns Mark Knopfler" and Josip Pesut with his "How To Have Productive Rehearsals". Finally, indie marketing and promotions expert Tim Sweeney returns with "Musician`s Blind Faith".
February updates include a new interview with Canadian based guitarist Borislav Mitic.
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 February 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.
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