June-July 2013

Vol. 18, No. 1: June-July 2013
We're Celebrating Our 17th Anniversary
Eight Guest Columnists Contributing To June-July Issue

Welcome to the June edition of Guitar Nine's on-line magazine. June of 1996 marked our entry into cyberspace, and after seventeen great years, Guitar Nine has become well known for providing a wide variety of free instructional material, news and information. To celebrate, eight guest columnists have submitted excellect articles on a range of musical topics of interest to independent musicians. To date, over 190 musicians have written guest columns since 1997.

Dan McAvinchey
Guitar Haus

Did you ever wonder where confidence comes from? How is it possible to have confidence at times, and suddenly lose confidence at critical moments?

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Guitar Nine Newsroom

Guitar Nine's June-July 2013 newsletter.

Jeremy Rouse
Jeremy Rouse

Combining fretted notes with sustaining open strings underneath gives the illusion that the guitar has more strings than just six sometimes.

Mike Philippov
Mike Philippov

Here is a method to find out how much your vibrato has improved over the last 6-12 months of playing guitar.

Paul Kleff
Paul Kleff

Paul Kleff offers a simple, orderly way to analyze songs and reduce them into small, easily-practiced parts that can be mastered individually and then assembled into the complete song.

Tommaso Zillio
Tommaso Zillio

There is a simple way to learn music theory (more than one in fact).

Tom Hess
Tom Hess Opus 2

Have you ever had a hard time getting your guitar students to make significant progress from one lesson to the next? There is a simple adjustment you can make.

Mike Campese
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Two for one - a Bach excerpt arranged for guitar, along with some timeless advice.

Ryan Duke
Ryan Duke

When you are confident on stage to the degree you are confident playing at home alone then any fear will not hinder your focus and performance.

Shawn J. Wagner
Ryan Buckner

Most guitar players have a tendency to use a single (often limiting) approach to songwriting that holds them back from achieving the results they want.

Roo Chapus
Roo Chapus

Putting together an album, the way I tend to do them, is a long and hard journey. It took three years between the first and second album.

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Guitar Nine

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Guitar Nine

Relentless French Progressive Metal

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