TABLE OF CONTENTS > LESSONS & DEPARTMENTS
LESSONS
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Fierce Guitar
By Neil Zaza
Groupings and Accents
The Jazz Box
By Corey Christiansen
Triad Pairs
Beyond Blues
By Jason Shadrick
Guide-Tone Arpeggios
Rhythm & Grooves
By Andy Ellis
Going Up?
Blues
Rock
Technique
Country
DEPARTMENTS
19 Opening Notes
26 News
28 The Water Cooler
See what people are saying online
and in the guitar community in
On/Off/Standby and Web Whispers.
30 Letters
32 Staff Picks
PG editors and Guest Picker John Jorgenson
talk about the albums and tours they’re
looking forward to most in 2011.
34 Hot Links
The Guitarist’s Guide to Jam Sessions -
Reader Submissions
36 Media Reviews
VIDEOS:
Lemmy: The Movie
Adam Rafferty Teaches How to Play the Music
of the Jackson Five
ALBUMS:
Harvey Reid, Capo Voodoo: Solo Guitar
Purling Hiss, Hissteria
Jinx Jones, Rip and Run
Bob Marley & the Wailers, Live Forever:
The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA,
September 23, 1980
188 Noodling
190 New Products
194 Gear Search Gallery
1952 Gibson Goldtop Les Paul
196 Guitar of the Month
1977 Travis Bean TB1000A
200 Modern Builder Vault
Hand Guitars
208 Last Call
By John Bohlinger
Buy-Buy, Recession
Hand Guitars’ Tonero
200
Gigging & Recording >
40 Tone Tips from the Road
By Paul “TFO” Allen
Instrument Cables 101
42 On Track
By Rich Tozzoli
Alan Parsons’ Art & Science of Sound Recording
44 Shifting Gear
By Rich Eckhardt
Tips on Soloing
46 On Bass
By Steve Cook
Learning from the Most Unlikely Sources
48 Guitar Tracks
By Mitch Gallagher
The Right Mic, Pt. 2
Tech Tips >
50 Esoterica Electrica
By Jol Dantzig
Brainstorms from NAMM’s Budget Basement
52 Acoustic Soundboard
By Ervin Somogyi
Tracking the Steel-String Guitar’s
Evolution, Pt. 1
54 Ask Amp Man
By Jeff Bober
First-Time Amp Restoration, Pt. 2
56 Mod Garage
By Dirk Wacker
The Fender Delta Tone System, Pt. 2
58 Stomp School
By Tom Hughes
What Is “Boutique”?
Vintage & Upkeep >
60 Vintage Vault
By Dave Rogers, Laun Braithwaite, and Tim
Mullally
1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard Serial #02163
62 Trash or Treasure
By Zachary Fjestad
Mesa/Boogie Mark IIB Combo Amp
64 Restoring an Original
By John Brown
Finishing a Neck Reset on a 1952 Goldtop
Les Paul
66 The Low End
By Kevin Borden
Old Dog, New Tricks
68 Signal Chain
By Dean Farley
Encounters with the Mad Professor
