Guitar Nine Columns: Guitar Technique

Scott Tarulli offers great suggestions on keeping your eye on your goals for self-improvement.

Guitarist Jeff Lawrence talks about the many benefits of fretboard knowledge.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas helps you define the role of a good guitar teacher.

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

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

Guitarist Paul Kuntz is back, after an almost 7 year absence, to talk modes.

A whole lot of great information about how to get new uses out of the pentatonic scale.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas can help you `manage` the process of changing bad playing habits.

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney puts a definition on all the things to which a creative musician may aspire.

Can you benefit from a four-year music education? Let`s explore the options.

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

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

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas is back discussing the importance of good practice habits.

Can you benefit from a four-year music education? Part 2 of the series.

Five pages of ii-V-I-VI etudes, in all twelve keys.

Tips on adjusting your thinking and broadening your style to expand your audience.

A look at ornamenting interval riffs with melody fragments.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas shows how to do both, and most importantly, how to combine them into one activity.

Neo-classical guitarist Tom Hess helps you to identify those inevitable weak areas in your playing.

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

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

Hess guitarist Mike Walsh offers great tips for accurate self expression.

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

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

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas helps you get beyond "moving fingers" to actually "making music".

If you think a Slash Chord is only found on a Guns `n` Roses album, you really need this article.

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

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

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

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

Times are perfect for releasing your own CD and this article will give you some planning and recording ideas.

Adding tremendous color and personality to your music through the use of rhythm.

Jason Parker tells you what to expect and how to get a foot in the door.

Guitarist Toshi Iseda reminds musicians that live shows should also be an engaging entertainment experience.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas explores the relationship between musical expression and technique.

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

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

Need more ways to make a simple melody more interesting? Let the Sultan of String show you how.

Will Landrum shows you how to inject your own personal timing and inflections into your playing while staying in groove with the real timing of the music.

Danny Jones is back with licks that will help you break the scale pattern syndrome.

UK guitarist Alan Williamson shows you how to use more fingers, tones and frets in your licks.

Can you deliver interesting and musical solos? Do it by looking for ways to add more variety.