Business Changes Create New Niche Market
Welcome to the February edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. As referred to in our "Game Over" column, CD collecting has seemingly passed over from mainstream activity to audiophile pursuit during 2009, and to that end, quality-conscious music fans are quietly snapping up the last remaining available discs. As such, we've added 10 releases to the site in the past two months, including instrumental CDs by David Stockden, Bernard Alcorn, Patrick Butler, Borislav Mitic, Mr. Fastfinger, Svilen Mikov, Infinite Loop, Will Brady and the Melodic Soloists compilation. You can now listen to and order 1891 instrumental releases by 1181 different artists.
In this issue
8 Steps To Developing A Highly Efficient Practice Schedule
All of the things you need to do, or practice, in order to reach you playing goals.
Chromatic Stretch, Part 1
Zammit's back with the first part of his challenging and beneficial chromatic exercises.
Creative Melodic Development
Ideas that make good melodic sense whether you play them fast or slow.
Dropped-D Rhythm Guitar Patterns
Paul Tauterouff breaks things up a little bit to talk about some rockin' rhythm guitar ideas.
Game Over: There Are No More Discs
Where did they all go? Quality conscious, savvy collectors are grabbing up the last of 'em.
How To Control A Melody
Inspired by Jeff Beck's cover of "A Day In The Life"? Learn how you can play more melodically.
How To Have Productive Rehearsals
Get the most you can out of the rehearsal time you have scheduled.
Ideas Without Limits, Part 2
Explore some other (more advanced) variations of the same sequence, with Tommaso Zillio.
Interview: Borislav Mitic
Regardless of the economic slowdown, people tend to want to download a lot of their music for free, thus leaving artists without income that would be generated through royalties from CD sales.
Mr. Fastfinger Turns Mark Knopfler
A mind game method for creating the right solo for the song.
Musician's Blind Faith
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney helps you find the blind faith that was once there.
Newsletter February-March 2010
Guitar Nine Records February-March 2010 newsletter.
Oh How The Music Business Keeps Changing
Music industry guru Christopher Knab tracks the shift from a "sales-to-a-customer" model to monetizing access to music.
The Rediscovered: Adam Levy
Fluid, Laid-Back Jazz
The Rediscovered: Dominic Gaudious
Acoustically Combining Ethnic Influences
The Rediscovered: Gonzo
Solo Bass Rarity
The Rediscovered: Scott Mosher
Ambient Neo-Progressive Cyber-Rock
Speed Picking
Mike Campese helps you to increase your speed and technical facility.
A Turn Of Phrase
Scott's tackles the unteachable, and talks about adding bends, slides, and killer vibrato to your solo work
Why YOU Should Learn Music Theory
Ysrafel explodes a few myths about learning music theory.
Zone Recording: Heading To Europe
Canadian guitarist David Martone heads out to Eastern Europe and pieces together a mini-tour.