1974 Down Beat Workshop: A guitar exercise on alternate picking by Jerry Hahn

Contents: James Moody; Mark/Almond Band; Marion Brown; Profiles - Barry Manilow, Howard King; What is the CBAE - Collective Black Artists Ensemble; Blindfold Test - Stanley Turrentine; Caught: Cleo Laine, Count Basie in Barcelona, Sarah Vaughan sings in the Baths; Perspective: "Weather Bird" - Gary Giddins appraises Booker Ervin; How To: Jazz Bowing; Workshop: A guitar exercise on alternate picking by Jerry Hahn; more

1974 February 28 Down Beat Jazz Blues Rock Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1974 Sonny Rollins: "This Man Called..." a look at this year's Hall of Fame winner

Features: Sonny Rollins: "This Man Called..." a look at this year's Hall of Fame winner; Anthony Braxton - the only logarithmical exponent of the saxophone on today's scene; Miroslav Vitous, "Weather Report" bassist Interview; Blindfold Test - Walter Bishop Jr.; Profile: Focus; Caught: Fred Anderson & Mighty Joe Young at the National Convention of the American Musicological Society; "How To" Polish Your Brass part 2, Dom Spera continues with trumpet techniques; Workshop: Mick Goodrick's guitar solo on Keith Jarrett's "Coral" - transcribed & annotated by Pat Metheny; more

1974 February 14 Down Beat Jazz Blues Rock Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1979 Jimmy Wyble Guitar Lesson - Combining Scales to expand technique and harmonic awareness

...The infinite possibilities of the scale with all its variations are indeed astounding...By using two scales at once we can add another dimension to our pursuit of efficiency and harmonic awareness. For instance let's combine the G and E flat scales in the following picking exercise...

1979 Jimmy Wyble Guitar Lesson - Combining Scales 1-Page Article available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1979 Jimmy Stewart Guitar Notebook - Robbie Robertson

...in the summer of 1968 Robbie Robertson, bassist Rick Danko, drummer Levon Helm, and keyboardists Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson became known simply as "The Band." ...My lasting impression of Robbie Robertson is that of a truly dedicated musician who is totally involved with his music..."Country Jam" is my tribute to Robbie Robertson...

1979 Jimmy Stewart Guitar Notebook - Robbie Robertson 1-Page Article available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1979 Lee Ritenour Rock Guitar Fundamentals: Arpeggios - the key to good technique

...The point of this article is not to introduce you to arpeggios. What I would like to make you aware of is the fact that scales and arpeggios are essentially the same thing and do in fact end up in the same places...I don't care if you're a rock, jazz, classical, or country guitarist, practice the shit out of those arpeggios. It will pay huge dividends, musically and financially...

1979 Lee Ritenour Rock Guitar Fundamentals: Arpeggios 1-Page Article available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1979 Larry Coryell Contemporary Guitar Lesson - Compliments and Explanations

...This month I'll be discussing two subjects: When I write a song, sometimes what I eventually play isn't exactly like what I originally wrote; the second topic covers different ways that chords can be written...there are times you'll write something so difficult that when you actually play it on a record, it comes out different - like the eight bar on my song "Birdfingers" on the first "Eleventh House" album. What I wrote is shown in Ex. 1, but it came out sounding like Ex. 2 to my transcriber...

1979 Larry Coryell Guitar Lesson -Compliments & Explanations 1-Page Article available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1979 Arnie Berle Guitar Lesson - Fretboard Basics - Combining Modal Chords

...last month I gave an example of a composition based on the A phrygian mode, called "Ophelia," by Mike Santiago. It was taken from the album "White Trees" by Santiago and his group "Entity." This month I want to show you the exact chords and voicings that Mike used on the record...

1979 Arnie Berle Guitar Lesson - Combining Modal Chords 1-Page Article available at www.GuitarPulp.com