Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Thirty November 24, 2007 Major Chords Part TWO

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty nine November 17, 2007 Major Chords Part ONE

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty eight November 10, 2007  Rudimentary Harmony Part TWO

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty: seven November 3, 2007  Rudimentary Harmony Part ONE

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty: six October 27, 2007  It's the pizz, man

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty: five  October 18, 2007 Don't act like a dink on stage!

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty: four October 11, 2007 Is the fingering in your edition right for you?

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty: four October 4, 2007 Basic Theory 101: Intervals are the Building Blocks of Harmony

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty: three September 27, 2007 Basic Theory 101: Intervals are the Building Blocks of Harmony

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty: two September 20, 2007 Choice of String makes for different sounds...

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty-One: May 17, 2007 Giuliani Practices What He Preaches

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twenty: May 10, 2007 The Importance of Scales

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Nineteen: May 3, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 30)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Eighteen: April 25, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 29)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Seventeen: April 19, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 28)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Sixteen: April 12, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 27)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Fifteen: April 5, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 26)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Fourteen: March 29, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 25)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Thirteen: March 22, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 24)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Twelve: March 12, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 23)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Eleven: March 5, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 22)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Ten: February 26, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 21)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Nine: February 21, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 20)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Eight: February 14, 2007 A Little Waltz

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Seven: February 8, 2007 Stretches

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred six: January 31, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 19)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Five: January 25, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 18)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Four: January 18, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 17)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Three: January 11, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 16)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred Two: January 4, 2007 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 15)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred One : December 28, 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 14)

Guitar Technique Session One Hundred: December 21, 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 13)

Guitar Technique Session Ninety Nine: December 14, 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 12)

Guitar Technique Session Ninety Eight: December 7, 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 11)

Guitar Technique Session Ninety Seven: November 30, 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 10)

Guitar Technique Session Ninety Six: November 23, 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 9)

Guitar Technique Session Ninety Five: November 16, 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 8)

Guitar Technique Session Ninety Four: November 9, 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 7)

Guitar Technique Session Ninety Three: November 2, 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 6)

Guitar Technique Session Ninety Two : October 26, 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 5)

Guitar Technique Session Ninety One: October 19 , 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 4)

Guitar Technique Session Ninety : October 11 , 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 3)

Guitar Technique Session Eighty Nine: October 5 , 2006 Continuing the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 2)

Guitar Technique Session Eighty Eight: September 28 , 2006 The beginning of the Complete Pascual Roch Volume 2 (part 1)

Guitar Technique Session Eighty Seven: September 13 , 2006 Villa-Lobos Prelude One and 1950's interpretation.

Guitar Technique Session Eighty Six: September 6 , 2006 Villa-Lobos Prelude Two repeats the left hand fingerings quite a bit. It's a good thing!

Guitar Technique Session Eighty Five: August 30, 2006 Another look at artificial harmonics through the haze of time.

Guitar Technique Session Eighty Four: August 23, 2006 Hey man, it ain't written that way! When to play something differently.

Guitar Technique Session Eighty Three: August 16, 2006 The Plateau, and how to get the heck off of it!

Guitar Technique Session Eighty Two: August 9, 2006 A piano transcription on a long boring plane ride.

Guitar Technique Session Eighty One: August 2, 2006 Right and Left hands both get a work-out in this Albéniz classic. PART THREE

Guitar Technique Session Eighty: July 28, 2006 Right and Left hands both get a work-out in this Albéniz classic. PART TWO

Guitar Technique Session Seventy Nine: July 21 , 2006 Right and Left hands both get a work-out in this Albéniz classic.

Guitar Technique Session Seventy Eight: July 13 , 2006 Weird and Funky Reverses

Guitar Technique Session Seventy Seven: July 7 , 2006 Pascual Roch and harmonics: a must-read!

Guitar Technique Session Seventy Six: June 29, 2006 It's all too trilling !

Guitar Technique Session Seventy Five: June 22, 2006 Oops I klinkered Again!

Guitar Technique Session Seventy Four: June 16, 2006 Artificial Harmonics and Amelia

Guitar Technique Session Seventy Three: June 8, 2006 Technique and Musicality: Which is More Important???

Guitar Technique Session Seventy Two May 2, 2006 The Classic Guitar Method has Arrived!

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Nine March 9, 2006   Carulli and a few new Kama Sutra positions, well actually one new position on the guitar.  That sounds just plain wrong!  Oh, click the link and see what the flap is all about! PART THREE

Guitar Technique Session Seventy  March 16, 2006   Carulli and a few new Kama Sutra positions, well actually one new position on the guitar.  That sounds just plain wrong!  Oh, click the link and see what the flap is all about!  PART FOUR

Guitar Technique Session Seventy One  March 23, 2006   Why Transcribe?  We look at a Bach Cello Suite. (First in a series.)

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Eight March 2, 2006   Carulli and a few new Kama Sutra positions, well actually one new position on the guitar.  That sounds just plain wrong!  Oh, click the link and see what the flap is all about!  PART TWO.

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Nine March 9, 2006   Carulli PART THREE

Guitar Technique Session Seventy  March 16, 2006   Carulli PART FOUR

Guitar Technique Session Seventy One  March 23, 2006   Why Transcribe?  We look at a Bach Cello Suite. (First in a series.)

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Seven February 26, 2006   Carulli and a few new Karma Sutra positions, well actually one new position on the guitar.  That sounds just plain wrong!  Oh, click the link and see what the flap is all about!

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Six February 17. 2006   Giuliani is great but a bit harmonically challenged!  what is this HERESY?  Tune in and check it out.

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Two January 5, 2006 How do you get the new student to cleanly, accurately and quickly transition from one chord to another?

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Three January 17, 2006 Getting the new student to use Apoyando and Free Stroke in the same phrase to articulate a melody, A simple Etude by yours truly.

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Four January 27, 2006 Sor's Etude Number One can still teach a few things after a century and a half or so...

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Five February 9. 2006   Guitar taught right.  Figures Carulli would take the point! My man!

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Exercise Week One: September 23, 2004 Warm Up and Work Out

Exercise Week Two: September 30, 2004 Legato (Slurs)

Exercise Week Three: October 7, 2004 The Barré in Melody Passages

Exercise Week Four: October 14, 2004 A Trip to Nosebleed Country

Exercise Week Five: October 20, 2004 Sor and the Interval of the Third

Exercise Week Six: October 28, 2004 Scale Passages in Bach's Chaconne

Exercise Week Seven: November 4, 2004 Right-hand finesse in Villa-Lobos

Exercise Week Eight: November 11, 2004 Working in Fourths

Exercise Week Nine: November 18, 2004 Apoyando

Exercise Week Ten: November 25, 2004 Rock and Rollers! Open string speed riffing

Exercise Week Eleven: December 2, 2004 Giuliani variation demands right hand intricacy

Exercise Week Twelve: December 11, 2004 Tremolo Study Number 1

Exercise Week Thirteen: December 18, 2004 Tremolo No. 2 Recuerdos

Exercise Week Fourteen: December 23, 2004 Guardame Las Vacas

The Main Exercise Page

Exercise Week Fifteen: December 30, 2004 Tremolo No. 3 Una Limosna

Exercise Week Sixteen: January 6, 2005 Special Effects

Exercise Week Seventeen: January 13, 2005 Blues/Rock Soloing--The Box

Exercise Week Eighteen: January 20, 2005 Blues/Rock Soloing Part Two--Bending the Box

Exercise Week Nineteen: January 27, 2005 Blues/Rock Soloing Part Three--Vibrato

Exercise Week Twenty: February 3, 2005 Blues/Rock Soloing Part Four -- Majorly Outside the Box

Exercise Week Twenty One: February 10, 2005 Tendonitis and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. AVOID IT!

Exercise Week Twenty Two: February 17, 2005 Getting Sor with an Etude... Apoyando PART TWO

Exercise Week Twenty Three: February 24, 2005 Sight Reading 101 with a Giuliani Rossiniane (Opus 119, No. 1)

Exercise Week Twenty Four: March 3, 2005 Bend and stretch, doing two things at once and finger independence

Exercise Week Twenty Five: March 10, 2005 Apoyando Part Three -- using Carcassi Opus 60 No. 16 to get that ring finger resting...

Exercise Week Twenty Six: March 17, 2005 Get those fingers where they ought to be! Proper Left Hand Positioning

Exercise Week Twenty Seven: March 24, 2005 Drop D tuning a classical guitarist's perspective on a common practice.

Exercise Week Twenty-Eight March 31, 2005 Right hand Technique --tone production on the Electric Guitar

Exercise Week Twenty Nine: April 7, 2005 Right hand Technique -- tone production on the Classical Guitar

Exercise Week Thirty: April 14, 2005 Sight Reading 101 Part Two -- Back to a more Basic Approach

Exercise Week Thirty-One: April 21, 2005 Sight Reading 101 Part Three -- Let's Read all over the Freakin' Neck, man

Exercise Week Thirty-Two: April 28, 2005 Sight Reading 101 Part Four -- We got the flashlight and the Lizard Poison!

Exercise Week Thirty-Three: May 19, 2005 Sight Reading 101 Part Five -- The shape of things to come and tone ranges

Exercise Week Thirty-Three: May 25, 2005 An old Carulli Prelude gets that Butt-Ugly Thumb moving like a champ!

Exercise Week Thirty-Four: June 2, 2005 Jon Voight taught me not to be late. But until that time when I really learn the lesson, here is a neat Carulli Andante for you to finger.

Exercise Week Thirty-Five: June 9, 2005 Practice Versus Playing The Bout of the Century -- but who will win? He who practices, not just plays...

Exercise Week Thirty-Six: June 16, 2005 The Stretcher You want to get used to this here rather than at a gig. Actually an easy exercise that builds a skill.

Exercise Week Thirty-Seven: June 23, 2005 Lute Tabulature You'll need to know how the various methods work to cop some good early music. Viel Ton, the tab of Dowland. THIS IS PART ONE

Exercise Week Thirty-Eight: June 30, 2005 Lute Tabulature Spanish, Italian and French. The cuisine is great, but the tabulature is good too! THIS IS PART TWO

Exercise Week Thirty-Nine: July 7, 2005 Lute Tabulature German Tablature -- this is the tough one to interpret (at first.) THIS IS PART THREE

Exercise/Technique Session Number Forty: July 14, 2005 Standard Notation -- so simple even musicians can read it!

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Forty One: July 21, 2005 Planting and Hold That Note! Making your fingers work a little keeps them from working a lot!

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Forty Two: July 28, 2005 Planting and Hold That Note! Making your fingers work a little keeps them from working a lot!

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Forty Three: August 4, 2005 Rasgueado (Ooo, pardon me!) Yes, it's a sound, but not that one!

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Forty Four: August 11, 2005 Back to Basics PART ONE -- teaching the new student to read above the fifth fret.

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Forty Five: August 18, 2005 Back to Basics PART TWO -- teaching the new student to read above the fifth fret.

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Forty Six: August 25, 2005 Back to Basics PART THREE -- teaching the new student to read above the fifth fret.

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Forty Seven: September 1, 2005 Back to Basics PART FOUR -- teaching the new student to read above the fifth fret.

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Forty Eight: September 8, 2005 Back to Basics PART FIVE -- teaching the new student to read above the fifth fret.

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Forty Nine: September 15, 2005 Back to Basics PART SIX -- teaching the new student to read above the fifth fret.  This is the last part of the series.  Next week, something new!

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Fifty: September 23, 2005 Rigging Your Pedals - Sounding like a garage band? Try rearranging the furniture!

Guitar Technique Session Fifty One: October 13, 2005 Be a tone meister with a crap amplifier!

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Number Fifty Two: October 10, 2005 Raiding Hollywood's soundtrack to find great tunes for transcription -- The Harry Lime Theme

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Number Fifty - Three: October 27, 2005 Another trip to an unlikely place for some recital repertoire PART TWO

Guitar Exercise or Technique Session Number Fifty Four: November 3, 2005 More repertoire from the 'lite' classic arena

Guitar Exercises Session Number Fifty Five: November 10, 2005. Mauro Giuliani shows us his stuff!

Guitar Exercises Session Number Fifty SIX: November 17, 2005. Napoleon Coste gives a glimpse of 19th Century life.

Guitar Technique Session Fifty Seven December 1, 2005 FIRST OF THREE PARTS Drop D Tuning and the Marlbrough Variations

Guitar Technique Session Fifty Eight December 8, 2005 SECOND OF THREE PARTS Drop D Tuning and the Marlbrough Variations

Guitar Technique Session Fifty Nine December 15, 2005 THIRD OF THREE PARTS Drop D Tuning and the Marlbrough Variations

Guitar Technique Session Sixty December 22, 2005 Queen Elizabeth's Galliard by John Dowland. F# tuning??? Checkout what's going on here. A great little piece

Guitar Technique Session Sixty One December 29, 2005 MERRY CHRISTMAS!! A nice little -- and simple transcription/rendition of Greensleeves. ENJOY!

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Two January 5, 2006 How do you get the new student to cleanly, accurately and quickly transition fromone chord to another?

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Three January 17, 2006 Getting the new student to use Apoyando and Free Stroke in the same phrase to articulate a melody, A simple Etude by yours truly.

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Four January 27, 2006 Sor's Etude Number One can still teach a few things after a century and a half or so...

Guitar Technique Session Sixty Five February 9. 2006   Guitar taught right.  Figures Carulli would take the point! My man!

For the Rock N' Roller

The Fender Guitar (Stratocasters mostly!)

Fender Construction Technique

AIR RAID -- Bronx Bar Band of the Early 1980's

The Discords -- Five-part harmony on Ely Avenue in the 1960's

Rory Gallagher -- Irish-born master of the Blues.

Funny Old Photos -- Harry Pellegrin in various incarnations...

Ensemble Performance

PART ONE: The Technique of Ensemble Playing: Emotions and Expectations -- the price one pays.

PART TWO: Rehearsal Etiquette -- Are you a squid in the band room?

PART THREE: Blending with the band -- do you fit in or do you take over?

PART FOUR: Numbers and Hand Signals -- It is polite to use your hands for some things

PART FIVE: Behaving at The Gig Professionalism Pays Big Dividends

PART SIX: VOLUME! How loud is too loud? How do you get loud enough and keep from assaulting ears and sensibilities?

PART SEVEN: Gig Realities --Some sage and humorous advice.

PART EIGHT: 'And so, the end is near, it's time to face that final curtain...'  When is it time to quit a band?

Some Interesting Places to Visit

The Beautiful Bronx of the 1960's

Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx -- Where the Elite Meet to Decompose

Untermyer Park in Yonkers -- Home of beautiful statuary and night-time occult practices. Son of Sam chilled here. So did the rest of us little urchins back in the 197o's

Scenes and Sites from LOW END and DEEP END

MORE -- The Scene of the Crime

ARTICLES

INTERVIEW: Jack Kirk Master Builder of Fine Classical Guitars. Conducted in 1983, this interview appeared in edited form in Soundboard Magazine. Here is a transcript of the tape made that day in June. Names are named and myths debunked.

Ever break a fingernail prior to a majorly important recital? Here's a way of patching your hand and your career using stuff you already have in the house. NAILS!

Want to fondly recall life as it was in New York City in 1983? Read this article on guitar in NY .

GUITAR QUEBEC 1983 -- A great conference held by the Guitar Foundation of America. Harry covered the series of master classes held. Read the article he wrote for the Winter 1984 issue of Soundboard.

An old Soundboard article from 1983, this piece discusses college education for guitarists in New York City. READ.

The Wave on a Cool Fall Afternoon A short ghost story

Are You Hard Core? From Plastic Pony Magazine Editorial

Wild Horses From Plastic Pony Magazine , June 1994 Diatribe on music and memory-jogs

On the Road Again From Plastic Pony Magazine , November 1994 Editorial

Excerpt Number One from The Monkey Butt Essays Editorial

Excerpt Number Two from The Monkey Butt Essays Editorial

Excerpt Number Three from The Monkey Butt Essays Editorial

Excerpt Number Four from T he Monkey Butt Essays Editorial

The Wake From Plastic Pony Magazine Maudlin piece on a dead guy and a dead motorcycle

Excerpt Number Five from Plastic Pony Magazine Editorial

Daytona 1993 Recount of a road trip to the sunny climes

It Pays to Advertise Editorial

Bias Anyone? The AMA hates outlaw bikers -- enough to, well, shall we say 'make up stories?'

Adirondack Weekend Another road movie...

Music and Motorcycles Bikes and tunes