Guitar Nine Columns: Audio Enhanced Column

Moving the Phrygian Dominant scale in a more horizontal fashion across the neck.

Examples that will help strengthen your picking, constructed in a more musical fashion.

A great way to connect the five basic major scale patterns.

Great when learning modes - hear the sound of each mode over a tonal center.

Strengthen your upstrokes so they are as strong as your downstrokes.

If you know all of your scale patterns, but are not sure how to connect them, this lesson will help you.

Stuck inside? Take advantage of the time and challenge yourself to get to the next level.

Creative ways to move around the fretboard at a blazing fast speed.

This scale is most common in jazz, but can be applied to any style of music.

Taking the diminished scale and incorporating it with a basic blues scale box.

Even more ideas to spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.

Time to build technique and spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.

Now, Mike mixes up the rhythms when practicing scales to make things that much more interesting.

Building your chops while making practice time more interesting and even, fun.

Mike digs a little deeper into the Altered scale, aka Super Locrian.

Mike teaches soloing over chord changes with a track from his album, "The Fire Within".

Mike has a new album, "The Fire Within". and breaks down a few of the notable tracks.

Mike delivers the keys to unlocking specific sounds, such as the Phrygian dominant mode, from the Harmonic Minor scale.

Gaining fluency with triad arpeggios will help your soloing and rhythm playing.

Mike shows you several ways to spice up your riffs, lines and solos with some chromatic passing tones.

Mike teaches you scale sequences (in the Hanon style, adapted from piano) that are great for your dexterity and precision.

Call-and-response practicing to enhance your phrasing and composing.

A number of short lick ideas designed to kick-start your technique.

More short lick ideas to kick-start your technique.

Nowhere to go with ascending licks but up? Dan McAvinchey confronts the problem and gives you several ideas you can use today. Don't just take the easy way out and start descending either.

Stop practicing with boring scales and start testing your fingers with melodic 'riffs' from Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and more.

Stop strumming those simple barre chords, and embellish your chordal work with licks and phrases that blur the distiction between rhythm and lead guitar playing.

Break free of your limiting beliefs about pentatonic scales.

New Jersey guitarist Paul Kuntz is back and aside from a ravenous appetite, he`s got plans to teach you all about tuplets and fitting the notes to the rhythm.

The beautiful part about the tempered music scale lies in it`s flexibility. One of Ken`s favorite tricks is to take one shape, and use it to move up or down the fretboard in a linear way. The similarities in chord shapes will allow you to do the same.

Learn the essentials of the swept arpeggio from one of the masters of the technique.

The official arpeggios of Guitar Nine Records - always play the 9th. Take it away Mike.

Mike Campese is back with a follow up article with even more 9ths for your entertainment.

A classical sounding etude designed to enhance the chops of any serious player.

Guitarist Gianluca Piersanti preaches a serious focus on phrasing.

Break out of those ol` common scales with Mr. Hughes.

How to add a really cool twist to your playing.

Taking a violin caprice to the six-string.

Mike is back to teach you to work the neck to squeeze more creativity out of your chording.

Mike is back with a follow up lesson to help you work the neck to squeeze more creativity out of your chording.

Mike is back to help you coordinate your hands, while developing speed and accuracy.

Mike returns with the second part of his column on coordinating your hands, while developing speed and accuracy.