Guitar Nine Columns: Audio Enhanced Column

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April-May 2002
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike returns with some ideas on how to incorporate half-tones and other non-scale notes into your lines.

June-July 2002
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike returns with some fun arpeggio licks he uses in his own playing.

August-September 2002
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Learning the fretboard through scales by Mike Campese.

October-November 2002
Curtis

How to develop the ability to use right hand figers along with the pick.

October-November 2002
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

More ways to master the fretboard through the use of the pentatonic scale.

December-January 2002
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

How you can add something different to your solos to sound a little more `out`.

December-January 2002
Jeff Scheetz

Guitarist Jeff Scheetz` own blistering version of this holiday chestnut.

February-March 2003
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Sooner or later, you`ll want to make your solos more exciting. Start by making up new scale sequences.

February-March 2003
Sean Mercer

Getting the left hand to keep up with the right hand sweep through hand synchronization.

February-March 2003
Martin Behr

Applying time-shifting to enhance tapped arpeggios.

April-May 2003
Curtis

How to write something you cannot play, and then playing it.

April-May 2003
Sean Mercer

Sean Mercer teaches you a single right-hand finger tapping technique.

April-May 2003
Martin Behr

Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale.

June-July 2003
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Complete understanding of the modes has eluded many a guitarist. Here`s part two of Mike Campese`s multi-part lesson.

June-July 2003
Sean Mercer

Sean Mercer returns with ways to help you break out of the 3 and 4 note sequence rut.

June-July 2003
Chris Juergensen

Constructing your own chord voicings and increasing your chord vocabulary.

June-July 2003
Martin Behr

Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale. This time: the diminished scale.

August-September 2003
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Knowing the modes, and putting them to good use, are two different things. Here`s part three of Mike Campese`s multi-part lesson.

October-November 2003
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese is back with more modal mayhem.

December-January 2003
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese is back with powerful compositional tool (and a play out of Satriani`s playbook).

February-March 2004
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese shifts into high gear with these high tech shred licks.

April-May 2004
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese turns the tried and true triad into an improvisational treat.

June-July 2004
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese again turns the tried and true triad into an improvisational treat.

August-September 2004
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

The second part of taking a well-known violin caprice to the six-string.

December-January 2004
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

More ideas on how you can add a really cool twist to your playing.

February-March 2005
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese opens 2005 with a great workout for your pickin` hand.

April-May 2005
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese blazes through exercises from his all new CD, entitled "The New".

June-July 2005
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese demonstrates that you can get many unique sounds out of just one scale.

August-September 2005
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese with more examples of getting many unique sounds out of just one scale.

August-September 2005
Mick Neil

A very challenging, but rewarding technique, with guitarist Mick Neil.

October-November 2005
Randy Ellefson

A look at ornamenting interval riffs with melody fragments.

October-November 2005
Danny Jones

Want to break out of the blues rut? Danny Jones offers some great starting points.

October-November 2005
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Get out your brooms and... no wait, check that - here are Mike`s hottest sweep picking techniques.

December-January 2005
Sven Stichter

Scare your audience (or even make someone hurl) with this ascending (yet descending) pattern.

December-January 2005
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Here are Mike`s sweep picking techniques applied to a revered classical caprice.

December-January 2005
Jason Sadites

Give your listeners a little bit more by throwing in an unexpected time change.

December-January 2005
Danny Jones

Danny Jones is back with blues licks taken from his recorded solos.

December-January 2005
Randy Ellefson

Guitarist Randy Ellefson introduces two basic ideas in counterpoint: oblique motion and contrary motion.

February-March 2006
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese offers an unusual technique that can yield some surprisingly cool results.

February-March 2006
Jason Sadites

Developing riffs and melodies into complete, interesting and listenable pieces of music.

February-March 2006
Danny Jones

Danny Jones is back with blues licks featuring dynamic double stops.

February-March 2006
Sven Stichter

Annihilate your tendencies to rely on reflexes, and use the force instead.

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