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Vol. 21, No. 2: August-September 2016

Picking Techniques, Open Tunings, And More

Six Guest Columns, Three New Interviews For August
August-September 2016 ยท August 2016

Welcome to the August edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. For over twenty years, Guitar Nine has provided a wide selection of guitar-oriented instructional columns, news and information, and our August-September issue is certainly no exception. Six excellect articles are available in the issue, covering a range of musical topics of interest to independent musicians. Also, we've interviewed three more guitarists who all have a lot to share with the community. Of note, we've published over 200 artist interviews, while nearly 210 musicians and industry experts have written over 1000 guest columns for this site since 1996.

In this issue

10 columns
Guest Columnists
Roland Nipp

'Practice' Doesn't Have To Be An Eight Letter Word

Roland Nipp

With the right approach, Practice will be enjoyable and something you look forward to.

Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

Effective Picking Techniques To Play Lightning Fast

Tom Hess

To easily play with greater speed, you'll need to use the most effective picking technique possible.

Guest Columnists
Tommaso Zillio

Escaping The CAGED Guitar Part 1: Unlocking The Right Hand's Potential

Tommaso Zillio

Examining the problems of CAGED starting from the effect on your picking hand.

Guest Columnists
Simon Candy

Instantly Sound Great, Playing Your Acoustic Guitar In Open Tunings

Simon Candy

You maybe missing out on a massive range of sounds that you just can't get otherwise.

Interviews

Interview: Chris Rolling

Dan McAvinchey

My favorite bands were AC/DC, Motorhead, The Stray Cats, The Sex Pistols and so on, so mainly hard rock, heavy metal, punk rock, and rockabilly/psychobilly stuff.

Interviews

Interview: Mike Milan Dedic

Dan McAvinchey

When I started playing guitar I was very fortunate to have all the great guitar players in the prime of their career to look to for inspiration.

Interviews

Interview: Phil Manning

Marcus Singletary

I was a typical Sixties kid. We always had Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley records, because my sister was into that. Then, along came the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and that changed everything.

Newsletters
Guitar Nine Newsroom

Newsletter August-September 2016

Guitar Nine Newsroom

Guitar Nine's August-September 2016 newsletter.

Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Technical Muscial Examples From 'Chapters'

Mike Campese

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

Guest Columnists
David Sertl

What We Learn From Satriani's Debuts

David Sertl

A dissection of "Not Of This Earth" and "Surfing With The Alien".

Also carried

First ran elsewhere

The survey that ran with it

84 answers

Which guitar effect do you like the best (2016)?

Delay/Echo
39%
Distortion
25%
Compression
11%
Chorus
11%
Overdrive
7%
Wah-wah
7%
Pitch-shift
0%
Flanging
0%
Phasing
0%
Percentages of 84 answers. All the surveys.
← The one before June-July 2016