1987 Frets Acoustic String Magazine Special 100th Issue Music Edition

Landmark Lessons - Classic workshops plus additional instrumental lines, chord charts, tablature, and musical perspectives; A Close look at what's happened in acoustic string music and its magazine during our first 8 years together; Comprehensive Frets 100 Issue index -features, columns, instruments, music & more; Encore: 100 musical questions; Offbeat instruments for fun and profit; Stu Jamieson - build it yourself - blueprint for Pete Seeger's banjo bridge; more

1987 June Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1987 Doc Watson - Spirit of American Steel-String

Doc Watson - The Life and Times of Arthel Watson; Inside Doc Watson's Music; Musical tools for the blind; Close up - Todd Phillips; Step-by-step rosettes; So you want to buy a banjo; Workshops: Margie & Greg Mirken - Perfect Pitch; Jorge Strunz - High Speed Scales; Dan Crary - "Wildwood Flower"; George Gruhn - mahogany or rosewood -is there really a difference; Tommy Flint - "crosspicking is velocity without trauma; Byron Berline - tips for beginning fiddlers; Review: Heritage H-50 Mandolin; more

1987 March Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1986 Wider horizons for Pierre Bensusan - the eclectic French fingerpicker talks plus how you can play his tune "Solilai"

Wider horizons for Pierre Bensusan - the eclectic French fingerpicker talks plus how you can play his tune "Solilai"; The Heart of Fingerstyle Guitar; No fingerstyle formulas for Rick Ruskin; Eric Tingstad's City Sounds; Frets visits Susan Norris; Emigre Violinist aims for the top - Dmitry Sitkovetsky; Review: Silver Bell Banjo by Gretsch; Workshops: Readers ask Earl Scruggs - banjo maintenance and slide techniques; more

1986 May Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1986 Hot Rize! - A Bluegrass Success Story

Hot Rize! - A Bluegrass Success Story; Backstage with Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers; The Acoustic Market finds its legs; Anaheim '86 - new instruments update; Frets visits Tom Ellis; The Law and You - Doing business as a band; The Enforcer - a good contract; Workshops: Chet Atkins - more fingerstyle moves for "Spanish Fandango"; Dan Crary - Flatpicking strategies in open E tuning; Tony Rice - the landmark recordings that shaped Tony's style; more

1986 April Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1986 Acoustic Music Festivals

Special Bonus! - 1986 Festivals Directory; Getting Festival Bookings; The Art of Being a Crowd-Pleaser; Contests - the winning edge; Controlling your sound outdoors; The Festival goer's guide to jamming; Starting your own festival; Take it or leave it? - tips for festival trekkers; more

1986 March Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1987 James Taylor - acoustic guitar is the channel through which he charts his songwriting course

Features: James Taylor Today - acoustic guitar is the channel through which he charts his songwriting course; Fiddler/Songwriter Pete Sutherland; How to buy a Resophonic Guitar - Duolian, Triolian, lap-style, squareneck -if this looks like Greek to you better read before you buy; Gerald Trimble's Celtic Fusion; Fingerpicking "Far Away" Up Close; Ricky Skaggs -back to basics; New Age music; Dobro Buying guide; more

1987 December Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1987 Frets: Acoustic Buying Guide - Guitars, Banjos, Mandolins - Photos, Specs, Prices

In the Market for Guitars - company by company, feature by feature, price by price, Frets surveys today's bumper guitar crop; Banjos and Mandolins - more than ever to choose from; Photo Gallery of the season's newest acoustic instruments, best-selling instruments, wildest instruments; Who's Selling Acousics? - top selling acoustic instruments; Accessories - tuning, holding, cleaning; NAMM 1987; Workshops: John Hammond - Slide Guitar; Jim Plattes - write your own tunes; more

1987 October Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1987 Frets: Tony Rice - new dimensions in taste and tone

Cover Story: Tony Rice - new dimensions in taste and tone; Features: Rice Unit Lieutenant Jimmy Gaudreau - matches Tony note for note; Robin Williamson - A Celtic Heritage; Classical Mandolin revisited; Michael Doucet's Bayou Fiddle Recipe; Review: Givens A-6 Mandolin; Lutherie: Truss Rod Basics; Workshops: Chet Atkins - a dreamy melody for fingerstylists; Dan Crary - create you own flatpicking licks; more

1987 September Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1987 Frets: The Ultimate String Test - all you need to know! Gauges, pitches and tensions for 100 popular string sets!

Cover Story: The Ultimate String Test - all you need to know! Frets analyzes Gauges, pitches and tensions for 100 popular string sets!; Amazing things about strings; How to select the right strings for you, your playing style and your instrument; The O'Kanes secrets of success; Custom Builder William Cumpiano; Harmonics Workshop; Reviews: Guitar Reviews: Yamaha LA-28; Taylor Dan Crary Model; more

1987 August Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1987 Frets: Mike Marshall & Darol Anger of The Montreux Band

Cover: Mike Marshall (with John Monteleone mandocello) & Darol Anger (with Jay Ifshin fiddle). Features: Mike Marshall & Darol Anger of The Montreux Band; How Mike & Darol make music; Nashville Bluegrass Band; How to buy a violin; John Prine; How To: Saddle Pickup Installation; Guitar Reviews: Artesano Model 20 Classical Guitar; Takamine EF-25S Acoustic/Electric Guitar; more

1987 July Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 David Grisman - Mandolin's Best Friend

Cover Story: David Grisman keeps on picking; Singer/Songwriter Nanci Griffith; Don't Call Me Leftie - String playing left handers speak out, there's more to being a southpaw than meets the eye; The Late Great Jean Carignan; Inside Gibson's Custom Shop; Meet Henry Juskiewicz - president of Gibson; Workshops: Tony Rice - The flatpicking train runs on time; more

1988 June Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Frets Magazine: Guitar Collectors Issue - The Martin Dreadnought Story

Guitar Collectors Issue - Cover Story: The Martin Dreadnought Story; Features: Martin and the Dreadnoughts; Dreadnoughts in Transition; 50 Years of full-bodied guitars in full color; Dawn of the Dreadnought; Vintage Guitar dealers rate collectible dreadnoughts model by model; Frets Famous Festival Guide; Great Festivals of the past; Workshops: Flatpicking ideas can be simple or complex, you choose!; more

1988 May Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Bonnie Raitt - Blues and Beyond

Cover Story: Bonnie Raitt, Have Slide, Will Travel; Features: Tony Trischka & Skyline; Here comes the Hurdy-Gurdy Man; The Ethereal songs of Nick Drake; Merchants are bullish on acoustics; "Mississippi" Fred's Natural Blues; Workshops: Natural Sound Effects; Creating Dobro Solos; Flatpicking Fills; Fiddler's Friend; Banjo Blue Notes; more

1988 April Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 John Cougar Mellencamp - Acoustic Adventure in the Heartland

Cover Story: John Cougar Mellencamp - Daredevil or visionary? The Platinum rocker told his band it was time to go acoustic - and the gamble paid off; Norman & Nancy Blake; How to buy a hammered dulcimer; Fingerstylist David Qualey; Fiddling, Contradance Style; Workshops: David Grisman, Remembering mandolin giant Tiny Moore; Jas Obrecht, The too-brief career of guitar legend Eddie Lang; more

1988 March Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Frets: You and Your Music - Read it and Write it Now!

Features: Frets 1987 Index; Top composers reveal their sources of inspiration; Standard Music Notation - learning it is easier than you thought; Find out why sonata allegro form can help you be creative in any style; Old Fashioned Fiddles - Herb Clinard; Workshops: Alternate Tunings; Fingerstyle Arranging; Songwriting Tips; Paganini - the most notorious fiddler of them all; Rare Mandolin by Larson Brothers; more

1988 January Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Richard Thompson - Guitar's Cult Hero

Features: The Indescribable Richard Thompson; The Ramblings of Jack Elliott; Feature Music: Richard Thompson's acoustic guitar; a dulcimeric tour de force; a yuletide duet from Mair-Davis; some "Forgotton Pictures" you'll want to remember; Champaign Fiddler Alison Krauss; David Schnaufer; The Mair-Davis Duo; Workshops: Byron Berline -Fiddling in the studio; Larry Carlton - Guitar prayer part two; David Grisman - harmonies for hackers; Dan Crary - making strings last; John Renbourn - can you dance and play guitar?; Tony Trischka - the 5-string free of capo; more

1988 December Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Frets: Mark O'Connor plays everything - and some say better than anyone!

Features: Mark O'Connor plays everything - and some say better than anyone!; Fast Folk Musical Magazine; Leonard Cohen's Songwriting Style; Patrick Street -an Irish band with no gimmicks; Mexico's legendary Gilberto Puente; Frets visits Blue Lion Dulcimers; Workshops: Julie Lyonn Lieberman - fiddling with pentatonics; Alan Munde- a nine-pound banjo solo from Allen Shelton; Bob Brozman - Slide Guitar made easy with open G tuning; Guest: Larry Carlton; Tony Rice - settling in to the recording studio; more

1988 November Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Sharon Isbin, Classical Guitarist - Secrets of her success

Features: Sharon Isbin - Beyond Classical Guitar; Sharon Isbin Music -is it classical or is it Travis-style?; The Guitars of Preston Reed; Edgar Meyer is "Out There"; Fingerstyle technical exercise from Preston Reed; Workshops: George Gruhn -evolution of the F-4 Mandolin; John Renbourn - DADGAD; David Grisman - Duo Style Mandolin; Alan Munde - art of the jazz waltz; Byron Berline -you deserve a break today; Guest Martin Simpson - frailing banjo revisited; Dan Crary - Bugle calls for flatpickers; Jas Obrecht - The minstrel of the Appalachians - Bascom Lamar Lunsford; more

1988 October Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Frets: Beyond 6 Strings: 12-String Guitar, Harp Guitar Renaissance, Rare Instruments

Cover: Still life with Reuter J-12 guitar; Features: Seven accomplised players explain how they came following the 12-string guitar; Frets talks to players of instruments of unusual denominations; Early American 12-Strings; In the market for a 12-string?; Exotic instrument photo gallery; The mighty Harp Guitar; Music: Guitar: "Crazy Creek", "Crosstie", "For Emily Whenever I May Find Her", "House Carpenter", Mandolin: "The Zipper Store", Fiddle: "Mindy's Fiddle Blues", Banjo: "All the Good Times Are Past and Gone"; more

1988 September Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1988 Frets: Superchops! Pierre Bensusan, Steve Khan, Pat Flynn

Contents: Liz Carroll's Irish Fiddling; Deciphering musical shorthand; French Fingerstylist Pierre Bensusan; Jazz Ace Steve Khan; New Grass Revival's Pat Flynn; Frets visits Lowell Jacobs; Music: Fiddle: "Merle's Tune", "Out On the Road", Guitar: "Can't Stop Now", "Four A.M.", "Tafiya", "Anji", "Nocturnal", Banjo: "All the Good Times are Past and Gone", "Old Timey Rising Damp", Mandolin: Exercises; more

1988 August Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1989 Frets: The Instruments of Ricky Skaggs - singer, bandleader, record producer, and multi-instrumental monster-picker shows off a glittering collection.

Contents: The Instruments of Ricky Skaggs - singer, bandleader, record producer, and multi-instrumental monster-picker shows off a glittering collection; Also Known as Circle Two - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Jazz Guitarist Bireli Lagrene; Music: John Hiatt - Fiddle/Mandolin/Guitar: "One Step Over The Line"; Guitar: Michael Johnson - "Give Me Wings", "Rue de Pierre (Part III), "Pelican"; Fiddle: "Camp Chase", "There Will Never Be Another You"; Fiddle/Fretless Banjo: "Forked Deer"; Mandolin: "Highway 40 Blues"; Dobro: Exercises; more

1989 July Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1989 New Grass Revival on a roll - Nashville's superpickers compete in the land of plenty

Contents: New Grass Revival on a roll - Nashville's superpickers compete in the land of plenty; Strings of the Gipsy Kings; Harpist Andreas Vollenweider; Whippersnapper; On the house concert circuit - all the world's a stage so why not your living room; How to buy a harp; Frets visists Bruce Petros; Music: Fiddles / Mandocello / Guitar: "Romanitza"; Guitar: "Pelican", Open Chord Diagrams, "Thirteen Question Method"; Mandolin: "Learned Pigs & Fire-Proof Women" Banjo: "Avalon"; more

1989 June Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1989 Albert Lee - Flatpicking Guitar's unassuming Genius

Contents: Country-Rocking Guitarist Albert Lee; Unclassical Guitarist Stephen Funk Pearson; Banjo / guitarist Eddie Adcock; NAMM; Frets Annual Festival Guide; Music: Banjo: "I'll Go Stepping Too", "Gold Watch and Chain", "The Virginia Boys"; Guitar: "Flowers of Edinburgh", "West Coast Blues", "Woman", "Pelican", "St. James Hospital"; Mandolin: "Russian Rag"; Fiddle: "Bear Creek Hop"; more

1989 May Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1989 Frets: Johnny Cash - The Legend talks guitar

Contents: Hello, I'm Johnny Cash - Guitar wisdom from the man in black; Drastic Classicists - three revolutionary string quartets are shaking up the black tie and tails set; Photo Gallery - Athens, Ohio celebrates American lutherie; Five Petals make a Blue Rose - quintessential players unite for an all-star album - Marcy Marxer, Cathy Fink, Sally Wan Meter, Laurie Lewis, Molly Mason; Fleetwood Mac Fingerstyle Masterpiece - "Never Going Back Again" transcription - an acoustic guitar gem from Lindsay Buckingham; Music: Guitar: Rhythm Licks; "Never Going Back Again", "The Plains of Waterloo; Banjo: "Which Side Are You On?", "The Virginia Boys"; Fiddle: Examples; more

1989 March Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1989 Vintage Frets acoustic string musician magazine - Los Lobos - The Wolf reaches for its roots

Contents: Los Lobos, Acusticos - Mexican traditional music, East L.A. style; Banjo Stylist Bobby Thompson; Windham Hill's Will Ackerman - is new age dead in the water?; Trading in Texas - guitar roundup in the land of BIG; Frets visits Ovation Guitars - The bowl-back evolution rolls on; Music: Banjo - "Sugarfoot Rag", "John Hardy"; Guitar - "Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter", "Leather Britches", "Death and the Lady"; Fiddle: "(Sonajas) Mananitas Michoacanas"; Mandolin - "Russian Rag"; Dobro - "Crossing the Cumberlands"; more

1989 February Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

The Beatles for Acoustic Guitar - Authentic Transcriptions with Notes and Tab

The Beatles for Acoustic Guitar - Authentic Transcriptions with Notes and Tab

Songs included: Across the Universe, And I Love Her, Blackbird, Can't Buy Me Love, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, For You Blue, Girl, Help!, Her Majesty, Here Comes the Sun, Hey Jude, I Should Have Known Better, I Will, I'm Looking Through You, If I Fell, Julia, Long Long Long, Lovely Rita, Michelle, Mother Nature's Son, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), Nowhere Man, Revolution 1, Rocky Raccoon, Things We Said Today, Two of Us, WeCan Work It Out, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Yesterday, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

ISBN 0-7935-1541-6

The Beatles for Acoustic Guitar - Transcriptions with Notes and Tab available at www.GuitarPulp.com

Mel Bay's Classic Guitar Method Volume 1

This Method has been created for the fulfillment of a great need. That need is a simple direct approach to good classic guitar playing. Although the author has been established as a modern guitar stylist, he has been associated with the classic guitar since the age of fourteen when he became a devoted student of the music and methods of Carcassi, Sor, Aguado, Carulli, Tarrega, Mertz and many other classic guitar masters.

ISBN 0-87166-332-5

Mel Bay's Classic Guitar Method Volume 1 available at www.GuitarPulp.com

Classical Guitar for beginners - an easy beginning method with CD

Classical Guitar for beginners - an easy beginning method with CD

A friendly step-by-step approach, Introduces the fundamentals of classical guitar technique, teaches basic music reading, includes lots of enjoyable pieces to play

by Nathaniel Gunod

Written by one of America's leading guitar educators, this book will make getting started on classical guitar joyful and satisfying. Learning to read music will be easy as you play melodies and pieces from the classical guitar repertoire. All the basic techniques are introduced with concise descriptions and clear drawings. Unlike other beginning books for classical guitar, Classical Guitar for Beginners will familiarize you with all of the notes on the guitar, thus providing you with a firm foundation for continuing onward into the challenging and gratifying world of classical guitar. Includes an enhanced CD demonstrating all the examples and for playing along. Use it in your stereo or on your PC.

ISBN 0-7390-0890-0

Classical Guitar for beginners - an easy beginning method - includes CD available at www.GuitarPulp.com

Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits Guitar Notes & Tab

Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits Guitar Notes & Tab

Songs include: Under the Bridge, Give It Away, Californication, Scar Tissue, Soul To Squeeze, Otherside, Suck My Kiss, By the Way, Parallel Universe, Breaking the Girl, My Friends, Higher Ground, Universally Speaking, Road Trippin', Fortune Faded, Save The Population

Hal Leonard Publication
ISBN 0-634-07390-7

Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits Guitar Notes & Tab available at www.GuitarPulp.com

The Best of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab - 16 songs plus guitar solos

The Best of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab - 16 songs plus guitar solos including:

Boot Hill, Cold Shot, Couldn't Stand the Weather, Crossfire, Empty Arms, Honey Bee, The House is Rockin', Life Without You, Love Struck Baby, Pride and Joy, The Sky is Crying, Texas Flood, The Things That I Used To Do, Tick Tock, Tightrope, You'll Be Mine

The Best of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab available at www.GuitarPulp.com

Aaron Shearer Volume 2 Classic Guitar Technique Book

Great book for the beginner to learn classical (or classic) guitar! This is volume 2 of the Aaron Shearer series.

Copyright 1964 by Franco Colombo, Inc

Volume 2 of The Complete Method for Classic Guitar by Aaron Shearer

Aaron Shearer Volume 2 Classic Guitar Technique Book available at www.GuitarPulp.com