TABLE OF CONTENTS > LESSONS & DEPARTMENTS
LESSONS
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Inside Jazz
By Pat Martino
Linear Transformations
Fingerstyle
Workout
By Doug Wamble
Exploring Stride Guitar
Beyond Blues
By Carl Verheyen
Slide Without the Slide
Rhythm & Grooves
By Andy Ellis
Crazy Quartal Comping
Shred Your
Enthusiasum
By Paul Gilbert
I Meant to Do That
Henman Rocka 155
DEPARTMENTS
Opening Notes
News
The Water Cooler
See what people are saying online
and in the guitar community in
On/Off/Standby and Web Whispers.
28 Letters
30 Staff Picks
PG editors and Guest Picker Dweezil
Zappa turn on their iPods in Shuffle mode
and tell you the first three tunes to pop up.
32 Media Reviews
ALBUMS: Warren Haynes’ Man in Motion,
Ben Hall’s Ben Hall!, Kurt Vile’s Smoke Ring
for My Halo, The Kills’ Blood Pressures
BOOKS: Rockin’ Your Stage Sound: A
Musician’s Guide to Professional Live Audio
by Rob Gainey
176 New Products
180 Gear Search Gallery
1964 Fender Bassman Head and Cabinet
182 Guitar of the Month
Circa 1830 Gut-strung French-style Guitar
184 Modern Builder Vault
Peter Malinkoski Art Guitars
192 Last Call
By John Bohlinger
Road-Dog Travel Tips
17
24
26
Tone King Galaxy
head and cab
139
12 PREMIER GUITAR MAY 2011
Gigging & Recording >
36 Tone Tips from the Road
By Paul “TFO” Allen
Tone-Sculpting Backline Gear
38 On Track
By Rich Tozzoli
Pocket Power Tools
40 On Bass
By Dan Berkowitz
New Gear Time
42 Guitar Tracks
By Mitch Gallagher
Going the Distance
Tech Tips >
44 Esoterica Electrica
By Jol Dantzig
Cutting Through the Mix
46 Acoustic Soundboard
By Ervin Somogyi
Tracking the Steel-String Guitar’s
Evolution, Part 2
48 Ask Amp Man
By Jeff Bober
Rockin’ a Bassman 50
50 Mod Garage
By Dirk Wacker
Stratocaster Q&A, 2011
52 Stomp School
By Tom Hughes
Stomp School Graduation Day!
Vintage & Upkeep >
54 Vintage Vault
By Dave Rogers, Laun Braithwaite,
and Tim Mullally
1966 Fender Telecaster and
1969 Fender Vibrolux Reverb Amp
56 Trash or Treasure
By Zachery R. Fjestad
Guild G-1000—The First Acoustic
Guitar Amp?
58 Restoring an Original
By John Brown
1920s Slingerland Maybell Banjo Uke
60 The Low End
By Kevin Borden
Oy! Packing and Shipping Woes
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