April-May 2003

Vol. 7, No. 6: April-May 2003
Spring Has Sprung! Amazing Guitar CDs!
Non-Stop Infusion Of New Material Fuels 10% Growth

Welcome to the April edition of Guitar Nine's online magazine. After taking 5 years to reach 1000 titles, in the past few months the number of titles on the site has grown by over 10%. In the past two months, we've added another 38 new releases to the site, including instrumental CDs by Steve Cunningham, Danny Jones Band, Nick Thompson, Michael Harris, Bob Ernst, Rik Wright, Ottmar Liebert, Mermen, Dave And Davis, GasHead, Julien Kasper, Tak Matsumoto, Warren Cuccurullo, Kotikoski/Kleutgens, Theodore Ziras, Shawn Persinger Is Prester John, Jason Becker, Glenn Zervas, Brett Garsed, OHM:, Hybrid Freak Division, Janos Varga Project, Mindflowers, Laszlo Halper, D Sound, Gyarfas Istvan Trio, Folk Ivan, Uthull, Ken Synder, Ozric Tentacles, Paolo Valli, Vince Mendoza and Zoe McCulloch. You can now listen to and order 1120 instrumental releases by 632 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).

Dan McAvinchey
Guitar Haus

If you're a typical musician, you lack one or both of these critical qualities. Let's see how important they are to your success.

Curtis
Curtis

How to write something you cannot play, and then playing it.

Mike Campese
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Complete understanding of the modes has eluded many a guitarist. Here`s part one of Mike Campese`s multi-part lesson.

Sean Mercer
Sean Mercer

Sean Mercer teaches you a single right-hand finger tapping technique.

Martin Behr
Martin Behr

Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale.

Steve Pappas
Steve Pappas

Steve Pappas is back with his arrangement of one of the most well known hymns of all time.

Jeff Sanders
Jeff Sanders

How to embrace the healing power of music.

Paul Nelson
Paul Nelson

Paul Nelson talks about the Ionian, or Major scale.

Chris Juergensen
Chris Juergensen

How Chris satisfies both his financial and artistic needs and how you can too.

Tim Sweeney
Tim Sweeney

Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses live show promotion ideas.

Christopher Knab
Christopher Knab

Music industry guru Christopher Knab discusses critical changes in the way recordings are sold and distributed.

David Martone
David Martone

Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) updates can be tricky, take it from Canadian guitarist David Martone.

Guitar Nine
Guitar Nine

Blending New Age, Folk & Celtic

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Guitar Nine

Music Encompassing Many Moods & Styles

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Guitar Nine

Mastering The Musical Use Of The Guitar

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Guitar Nine

Mood-Driven Blues Instrumentals

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Guitar Nine

Santa Margarita's Metal Mayhem

Martin Schmidt
Martin Schmidt

The main thing over here is, we have big media problems. People that do weirder kind of music, jazz, fusion or blues, there is not a big radio market for it, like there is in other countries. As a result of that, people don¥t get to hear the music and they don¥t show up at the gigs.

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Guitar Nine

Rock Instrumentalist Seeks Contract

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Guitar Nine

Fusing Funk, Blues, Jazz & Country

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