How to keep from destroying your confidence by setting realistic expectations for your recording projects.
The Guitar Player's Resource
Welcome to the August edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. As we here at G9 bake in the North Carolina sun, fans of instrumental guitar music have a lot to listen to this summer, with new releases and reissues continuing to pour in from all over the world. We've added 28 new releases to the site in the past two months, including instrumental CDs by George Robinson, Rene Engel, Bernd Brothers, Insout, Ron Jackson, Greg Koch, Magic Elf, Larry Carlton, Joe Nardulli, Howland/Imboden Project, Ryan Formato, Jose Luis Encinas, Oscar Lopez, Carl Burnett, Galina Vale, David Pritchard, Alien Cowboys, Joel Hoekstra, Dixie Dregs, Howland/Laug/Morrison/Pinnick, G-Fire, Gilbert Isbin and Michael Fath. You can now listen to and order 1184 instrumental releases by 664 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).
How to keep from destroying your confidence by setting realistic expectations for your recording projects.
Guitar Nine Records August-September 2003 newsletter.
Knowing the modes, and putting them to good use, are two different things. Here`s part three of Mike Campese`s multi-part lesson.
Add some excitement to your playing by playing outside the scale. This time: blending the Mixolydian with diminished scale.
The amazing Tom Yoder and his equally amazing arpeggios.
Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas on how to make progress, real progress, in your abilities.
Steve Pappas completes his "Amazing Grace" arrangement with this final variation.
Indie marketing guru Tim Sweeney discusses how and when to approach the money men.
Music industry guru Christopher Knab is back with advice on how you can improve your odds playing demo roulette.
The changes in the music business, and how they should make you very happy.
Using your `Inbox` to do session work, with Canadian guitarist David Martone.
Interactive, Melodic, Contemporary Jazz
Percussive & Melodic Fingerstyle
Stunning Interplay & Synergy
Genre-Bending Acoustic Fingerstyle
Fusion Guitar Meets Ethno, Funk & Hip-Hop Grooves
Finger-Plucked, Multi-Genre Electric Instrumentals
Epic, Virtuosic, Neo-Classical Progressive
The first thing that you should care about for a CD release is the music. You have to trust in yourself as a musician and composer and try to come up with interesting music and then find a nice studio to record it in, or you can record at home if you have a nice home studio.
Becker-Influenced, Heavy Shred Guitar
Turkey's Instrumental Guitar Entry
