Guitar Nine Columns: Scales

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Enjoy over 25 years of staff columns, guest columns, interviews and more!

April-May 2021
Guitar Nine

Dozens of articles on the subject of scales, scale patterns, scale connection and more.

December-January 2020
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

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

June-July 2020
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

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

April-May 2020
Tommaso Zillio

What we are being told by traditional music theory, is a load of crap.

February-March 2020
Tommaso Zillio

Creating unlimited licks using the pentatonic scale.

December-January 2019
Tommaso Zillio

The pentatonic scale contains 5 notes; the melodic combinations you have to work with are endless.

August-September 2019
Tommaso Zillio

Koto on guitar - let's get exotic, shall we?

April-May 2019
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

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

February-March 2019
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

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

December-January 2018
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

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

June-July 2018
Luca Sellitto

Deepen your knowledge of the Minor Pentatonic scale, free yourself from the “5 boxes slavery”, expand your phrasing vocabulary and stimulate your creativity.

December-January 2017
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

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

August-September 1996
Guitar Haus

Break free of your limiting beliefs about pentatonic scales.

August-September 1997
Paul Kuntz

New Jersey guitarist Paul Kuntz takes time out from lunch to give you his assurance that there is life beyond the blues scale.

December-January 1997
Rusty Cooley

Houston guitarist Rusty Cooley figures that with ten fingers, there`s got to be times when you can use over half of them to express your ideas.

February-March 1999
Don Lappin

Don Lappin discusses the endless possibilities of the 5-tone tapping technique.

December-January 1999
Will Landrum

G9er Will Landrum is back to teach you the magic of turning a scale into real music.

June-July 2001
Muriel Anderson

Great scalar ideas from an award winning guitarist.

October-November 2001
Salvatore Vecchio

An Italian guitarist is prepared to expand your chormatic awareness.

April-May 2002
Gianluca Verrengia

How to play the same rhythm-melodic sequence on the same beat, starting on a different sixteenth each time.

April-May 2002
Scott Morris

A brand new column by Billboard Magazine Top Rated Instructor Scott Morris.

April-May 2002
Colin Mandel

A look at ways to create scales that are not taught, but invented.

August-September 2002
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Learning the fretboard through scales by Mike Campese.

December-January 2019
Andy Martin

A complete primer on these amazing scales.

October-November 2002
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

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

February-March 2003
Chris Brooks

How to expand your soloing arsenal by reworking some familiar ideas.

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
Salvatore Vecchio

Italian guitarist Salvatore Vecchio with a column on mixing various pentatonic scales to achieve something fresh.

April-May 2003
Paul Nelson

Paul Nelson talks about the Ionian, or Major scale.

June-July 2003
Chris Brooks

More creative ways to use modal pentatonics in your playing.

June-July 2003
Chris Juergensen

Constructing your own chord voicings and increasing your chord vocabulary.

December-January 2003
Jamie Andreas

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas answers the burning question.

April-May 2004
Dan Keller

Let the Sultan of String take you on the exotic scale ride of your life.

June-July 2004
Dan Keller

Let the Sultan of String explain the finer points of the Yona Nuki and In scales.

August-September 2004
Barrett Tagliarino

Use this scale to yield great sounds in jazz and ragtime, through perilous horror-film mayhem, cheese-metal and progressive rock fusion.

August-September 2004
Dan Keller

Let the Sultan of String blend, meld, mix and match scales, yielding a unique, exotic effect.

October-November 2004
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Do you know them? You must know them! Check out Mike Campese`s essential scales review.

June-July 2005
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

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

June-July 2005
Chris Juergensen

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

April-May 2006
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese serves up a blended scale you can use to set your music apart from the ordinary.

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