Love Metal could work. The Buzzcocks did Love Punk and made good records and some money. Back to the “guitars that played on albums selling millions” idea; it’s tough to work on. I just looked at the biggest album shifters, The Beatles and even that would take a while apportioning the rights to the Rickenbackers and the Epiphone Casinos (I’m keeping the Gibson acoustics out of the equation -sorry Guy- because my head already hurts).

I think Gibson/Epiphone probably sell more LPs than SGs, and certainly the LP shape is more subject to unofficial copies than the SG.

As to your theory, there are a number of bands and their guitarists who made a lot of money while playing either LPs or SGs (e.g., Jimmy Page of Led Zepp and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, respectively). It’s an oversimplification and exceptions abound, but Strats are favoured by the blues-rock and rock ‘n’ roll orientated while the heavier rockers favoured the Gibson. Rickenbacker and other, less famous makes also feature and then you get people like Pete Townshend of The Who, starting with Rickenbackers (like The Beatles), then using mostly LPs in the 70s and for the last twenty years most likely to be toting a Strat. Fashions change, too in a roughly “60s=Strat, 70s=LP, 80s=Strat, 90s=LP” way.

If I had the time, it could be fun (but a bit net-nerdy) to try to work out roughly how many album sales accrue to which particular guitars. Say by starting out with the top 20 selling albums and perhaps working backwards.

There are no problems opening your site, Starcaster, despite Daisy’s comment/plug. I’d consider a bit of a rewrite of “Let’s Get Started” as there are some innaccuracies in there. Perhaps you could discuss the guitar in terms of the two best known and most widely copied, the Stratocaster and the Les Paul. BTW, they both have pickups but the Strat’s are single coils and the LP has humbuckers.

[quote=”daisy”]:( i can not open your website,but i got a replica guitars website in China

http://gidson.en.ecplaza.net
i think is useful for you,lt look like a manufacture, :wink:[/quote]

Dodgy counterfeit guitars, eh?

Other than this one original design:

http://gidson.en.ecplaza.net/sitebuilder/images/043.jpg

Lovely, isn’t it?

🙁 i can not open your website,but i got a replica guitars website in China

http://gidson.en.ecplaza.net
i think is useful for you,lt look like a manufacture, 😉

You’re ALWAYS welcome to clip in 🙂 and, if you haven’t already, check the threads in our acoustic category if you want a b’day acoustic with a jacksocket. The Washburn seems to be getting a lot of satisfieds but, even if you differ, there are some alternatives for you to look into.

You go dude, we’ll check in soon.

I do understand the numbering on the website now.

A-432 in 2nd fret – this means the chord of A is 432 (4th, 3rd and 2nd string) all held down on the 2nd fret, that makes sense, but you havent said to play the 5th and 1st open, avoiding the 6th string, which i take it is the ‘fat’ E String??.
Confusion comes with this line:
D-312 in 2nd and 3rd fret (string 2 in 3rd fret) (strum only strings 4-1)
should it be D-321 ? string 2 in the 3rd and string 3 and 1 in the 2nd, im getting this now.
then we have:
E-354 in 1st and 2nd fret (string 5 and 4 in 2nd fret)
this whole line could be cut down to : 022100, 6 numbers cuts out a whole line of confusing text.
But i do like the layout, you could also try putting on some FAQ sections, i noticed your guitar anatomy, how about including something on amplifiers too?

I do like the site layout; nice and clean, looks professional. I realized later that when you said “I’ll put the #s” or whatever, you meant “I’ll put the numbers”. Although “#” is not much used to mean “number” outside the US, there’s a little problem that “#” means sharp in music so it would be more clear if you typed the word fully.

As Lee says, though, don’t go too far down the tab route. There are already a number of very good sites doing this.

I think Lee’s orginal post had a hint of sarcasm to it.

Until you reuploaded the content, or did whatever change you did, there was no content on your site. Thus why we couldn’t offer much of an opinion.

Lee says it best when he says its triangular. (he also says it in a Ronan Keating accent). The lesson is a little hard to follow at the moment and I’m having problems absorbing the information. Maybe with some more information to compliment it, things would be easier. It just feels a little scattered atm.

With a reading guide/picture guide and this article: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/chords/basic_chords.html … there info is concise and it works.

Writing to teach isn’t easy. So your on the right track, a lot of folks wouldn’t even ask for opinions.

Design wise, the site is easy to read and navigate.

StarcasterMan, i think you are trying to reinvent the wheel by making it triangular, i tried to work out what you was saying but gave up, ive been playing guitar for 30 years and it left me bewildered.
Have you seen TAB for chords? if you play a Open E chord it’s:

022100

nothing in my mind could be mpre simpler.

I like the layout of it though, nice and simple to navigate, you don’t get lost in endless options and links.

Any grammatical errors 1bassleft???

Ah, my message went in just as yours came up. OK, I’ve retried and can now see that you’ve got something on the 2nd page of your site. You’ve made a start, but have a re-read of anything you write, or ask someone else to. For example
[quote]I’m going to tell you about basic chords. I’m going to put #’s in order of strings (the way I’ll say it is the order of wich you should put your fingers) and the frets (at the end I’ll say which string in what fret.[/quote]

I don’t understand what that’s supposed to mean; and I’m not a beginner…

Who, me? 😆 . Starcaster, let us know when you have added the content; no-one can see anything on your site, which may be an uploading problem.

I think you are missing the point, there isn’t any content on the website, you have 2 links that go round in circles, there is nothing there, ask one of your friends to try and log on and see how far they get.

And you did spell critisism wrong, it’s criticism!!, although people pull me up on my grammar from time to time…… 1bassleft.

I particularly enjoyed clicking on the two links for several seconds. Then I clicked on the “X” in the top right-hand corner. Sorry to take the mick, but you ought to set it up before asking for ops.

Fantastic site, far better than guitarsite for the sheer volume of guitar facts, the reveiws were spot on, and no pop ups at all, the whole thing smelled of quality, and i had the greatest surfing experience since riding the big kahuna at bonzai.
Keep up the good work!!

Don’t see much other than Ads at this point.

When do you plan to add content?

You’ve still gotta add content?