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

October-November 2013
Ryan Buckner

It does not necessarily have to take you a very long time to gain the skills needed to accurately express yourself through music.

October-November 2013
Jeremy Rouse

An arrangement for fingerstyle guitar from the 1978 horror flick, written by the director John Carpenter.

December-January 2013
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese is back with ideas on how to compose - anytime, anywhere.

February-March 2014
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese is back with additional ideas on how to compose - anytime, anywhere.

April-May 2014
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese is back with exercises to help you improve your picking, dexterity, and overall technique.

April-May 2014
Jean-Pierre Zammit

Dominants should be the arpeggios you study first since they are used regularly in Blues/Rock progressions and songs.

June-July 2014
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese returns with a second set of exercises to help you improve your picking, dexterity, and overall technique.

August-September 2014
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese delivers patterns that foster some of the fastest, most accurate picking you can imagine.

October-November 2014
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese touches on a more modern approach, incorporating different types of patterns into odd-numbered lines.

December-January 2014
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese gives you a nice sweep picking arpeggio workout using the chord progression from Pachelbel`s Canon in D.

February-March 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese delivers a fistful of single string triad arpeggios - major, minor and diminished.

April-May 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese puts both hands on the fretboard to deliver more triad arpeggios.

April-May 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

You must master the ability to play with both speed and creativity in order to make your licks stand out.

June-July 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese covers the flat keys moving around the circle of fourths.

June-July 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Tom Hess takes you through the exact steps needed for cleaning up unwanted string noise in your blues guitar licks.

August-September 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese will help master your triads in all 12 keys, focusing on the sharp keys for the major triads.

August-September 2015
Simon Candy

Chords have the potential to bring a whole new element to your soloing providing cool, unique, and contrasting textures amongst the single note lines you play.

August-September 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Here you`ll learn several creative blues guitar techniques that will make your blues phrases sound much more expressive.

October-November 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese is back to help you out of the box - the scale pattern box, that is.

December-January 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese will help you build on your scales with his string skipping exercises.

February-March 2016
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese reminds you that if you don`t use it, you will surely lose it.

April-May 2016
Tom Hess Opus 2

Tom Hess will help you make your guitar solos overflow with emotion,

April-May 2016
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Just by flatting the third you can develop a whole new shredding sound.

June-July 2016
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

These exercises and examples will help you to improve your finger independence as well as your picking.

August-September 2016
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese teaches you short snippets from some songs off his brand new album "Chapters".

August-September 2016
Simon Candy

You maybe missing out on a massive range of sounds that you just can`t get otherwise.

October-November 2016
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Here are Mike`s technique to help spice up your solos, instead of just running up and down arpeggios.

December-January 2016
Tom Hess Opus 2

How to develop a lightning fast tremolo picking guitar technique.

December-January 2016
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Read about new ideas for using perfect 5ths in your playing.

February-March 2017
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

These 2-string scale fragment examples will increase your speed and your picking technique.

February-March 2017
Simon Candy

How to create amazing guitar solos using open strings and pentatonic scale patterns.

April-May 2017
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

3-string picking ideas that are great for developing your picking, and to help create lines.

April-May 2017
Chris Schreiner

Chris takes you through every inversion on string-set G-B-E, allowing you to bust one out when called upon to do so.

June-July 2017
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Confused about the modes? Here is a way you can practice the modes that may help.

August-September 2017
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

focusing on picking and moveable shapes that will help to create longer lines.

October-November 2017
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike shows you moveable type patterns for the harmonic minor scale, and some ways you can get some fresh new modern type sounds.

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