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Vol. 18, No. 4: December-January 2013

Seven New Columns Featured For This Holiday Season

It's A Great Time To Improve Your Playing And Knowledge
December-January 2013 ยท December 2013

Welcome to the December holiday edition of the Guitar Nine on-line magazine. Songwriting and scale ideas are just two of the subjects found in this issue, giving guitarists more ideas for growth and improvement. In total, seven guest columnists have submitted brand new articles on a range of musical topics of interest to practicing musicians. Be sure to open and enjoy a seasonal beverage, while sampling some great music released by over 1000 musicians we've worked with over the past 17 years! Remarkably, over 190 musicians have written guest columns for this site since 1997.

In this issue

12 columns
Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Composing Without Your Guitar, Part 1

Mike Campese

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

Guest Columnists
Jean-Pierre Zammit

Finding A Guitar Teacher

Jean-Pierre Zammit

Pinpointing some very important factors that will help the student successfully go through and become a serious guitarist.

Guest Columnists
Tommaso Zillio

How To Compose Original Phrases On The Pentatonic Scale

Tommaso Zillio

You might think that the pentatonic scale is just an easy scale but with no depth - well, you are wrong.

Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

How To Get Big Results From Taking Guitar Lessons

Tom Hess

Perhaps you have considered taking lessons but because someone you know had a disappointing experience with a teacher, you began to doubt if lessons are worth investing your time and money.

Guest Columnists
Tom Hess

How To Practice For Maximum Guitar Speed

Tom Hess

Perhaps you have considered taking lessons but because someone you know had a disappointing experience with a teacher, you began to doubt if lessons are worth investing your time and money.

Guest Columnists
Christopher Knab

I Get E-Mails - Boy, Do I Get E-Mails

Christopher Knab

Music industry guru Christopher Knab with a few words of advice to one over-exuberant, well-intentioned,would-be music industry professional.

Newsletters
Guitar Nine Newsroom

Newsletter December-January 2013

Guitar Nine Newsroom

Guitar Nine's December-January 2013 newsletter.

The Rediscovered

The Rediscovered: Brent Gunter

Guitar Nine

Cross-cultural Fusion Of Music

The Rediscovered

The Rediscovered: Lou DiBello

Guitar Nine

Capturing His Fiery Playing

The Rediscovered

The Rediscovered: Mark "M.E." Edwards

Guitar Nine

Fist-Pumping Rock & Metal

The Rediscovered

The Rediscovered: Turning Point

Guitar Nine

Forging An Eclectic Sound

Guest Columnists
Shawn J. Wagner

Writing Songs While Eliminating Songwriting Mistakes

Shawn J. Wagner

There are four mistakes that you can fix that will drastically increase your musical creativity and help you come up with songwriting ideas much faster.

Also carried

First ran elsewhere

The survey that ran with it

27 answers

What is your favorite, guitar-friendly streaming music service (2013)?

Do not use a streaming service
44%
Another service
33%
Grooveshark
22%
Songza
0%
Pandora Radio
0%
Spotify
0%
Slacker Radio
0%
Turntable
0%
Jango
0%
Last.Fm
0%
Sony Music Unlimited
0%
Percentages of 27 answers. All the surveys.
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