Instrumental Guitar Lives!
Welcome to the October edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. Spared the wrath of Hurricane Floyd's flooding, it was business as usual here as 23 new releases were added, including instrumental CDs by Cosmosquad, Denis Taaffe, Michael Knight, Guitar 2001, Will Landrum, Razz, Waldon Reed Jr., Steve Booke, Pete Marinovich, Isbin/Verbeke, John Inman, Bard Hoff, Philippe Thibaut, Dreamland, Neil Zaza, Will Sumner, William Taylor Prichard, Jeff Kollman, Ozone Quartet, Torben Enevoldsen, Kilminster/Smith, Stefan Dill, Ottmar Liebert and Stew Cutler. You can now listen to and order 233 instrumental releases by 182 different artists. Visit the Instrumental Guitar Showcase to browse and listen to all of these dynamic recordings, or check out our recommendations page. If you've released an instrumental project, get all the details about merchandising through Guitar Nine, and decide if it's right for your music (if you've released a guitar-oriented CD with vocals, click here).
In this issue
Compositional Inspiration
G9er Will Landrum is here to help when you seem to be fresh out of ideas.
The Distributor One Sheet
Getting ready for major or minor distribution? Christopher Knab explains the form and function of the distributor one sheet
Jazz Fingerstyle Improvisation Tools, Lesson 1
The guitarist on "Twins" offers the first installment on going beyond the flat pick.
Solo Shaping
Years of teaching at GIT have taught Joe a thing or three about structuring a solo. No need to travel to Hollywood, we've got the lesson right here.
The Undiscovered: Chris Hattingh
Maximum Guitar Synth
The Undiscovered: Inner Resonance
Stretching The Progressive Rock Envelope
The Undiscovered: Loren 'Lo' Woods
Shattering Conventional Notions Of Guitar Playing
The Undiscovered: Torben Enevoldsen
Danish Guitar Hero Releases Instrumental CD