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2 - WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 1998 GUITAR DATABASE?
The 1998 Guitar Database was renamed the "2000 Guitars Database" on November 8, 1998. Why the name change? To reflect the fact that there are now 2000 Guitar links on the site - over 1000 in the database and another 1000 on static HTML pages - and also to acknowledge that the database will be here till the year 2000 and beyond!
If your site still isn't in the database, submit it here
Enter the database from here
You can search the database several ways:
3 - "NO FRAMES" & NAVIGATION
If you don't like frames, you can navigate "1000 Great Guitar Sites" from the NO FRAMES page. This has direct links to 80 different pages on the site, all of which are also linked to at the bottom of every page, for your convenience.
For a full description of the 150 or so pages at the site, go to the 
or contents page
Easy access may be found to the NO FRAMES option:
4 - KNOW YOUR KEYS
From: Kirk Lorange lorange@kirk.net
What's the key to knowing your way around music? Knowing your keys.
I'm not sure how the word 'key' would be defined in a formal music course, but as a self-taught musician, I define key as a 'family of notes and chords'. I know, I know... you've got to know your scales, but unless you have a context to work against, scales become meaningless. That context is, of course, the key that you're playing in. To my mind, there is only one scale -- the Major Scale
Tone Tone Semi tone, Tone Tone Tone Semitone.
All music comes from it.
From those seven scale notes, seven chords are born. Their qualities are:
Major, minor, minor, Major, Major, minor and half diminished.
If we're talking about the key of C, the scale is
C D E F G A B (C)
the chords are C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am and B half diminished.
So to me, 'key' refers to all those notes and chords.
There are 12 keys, one for each note of the chromatic scale. Know them backwards and forwards. Know, for example, what the 'six chord' is in each key instantly. This refers to the chord built on the sixth note of the scale (Am in the key of C). Know what the 'three chord' is, the 'five chord' etc.
Remember that all keys are the same, laid out like a seven room apartment floor plan (one key) in a twelve story apartment block (all keys, all music). If you know the lay-out of one floor, you know them all.
For more one this lateral thinker's guide to music and the guitar, visit me at www.lorange.cjb.net or see a preview in the 2000 Guitars Database, or see
cartoon samples
Kirk Lorange
lorange@kirk.net
www.lorange.cjb.net
Kirk Lorange, who has been playing for 38 years,
is one of Australia's best know session and performing guitarists.
Read Kirks articles in the Guitar Newsletter:
5 - U2 TABLATURE
From: Where to find U2 Tablature
First, look in the U2 TAB Archive
for what's already on this site .
Don't miss TAB for Gloria, Bullet the Blue Sky and a collection of U2 tabs.
Next, search OLGA via the Guitar Notes - Tab Search slot on the Search Page for the TAB you want
You will find a complete list of U2 tab files on the Net here (115 K file)
Another location of olga U2 tabs
If you still can't find what you're after, try a U2-specific site.
The Ultimate Band List has a great list of U2 sites
Such as:
"Best of" U2 CD 30%OFF Limited Edition
6 - JAZZ TABS
Looking for Jazz tabs? If you search for "jazz" at the
Guitar Notes olga search site you should find some
You can also download jazz tabs (zip file) from the Tab Archive
or go to the Pink Pages, especially the "play" section
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7 - AMPS & EFFECTS
These new sections of the site are developing:
8 - CHORD THEORY
- Intervals
- Seventh
- Applying chords to music
- Chord naming
- Naming Chord Triads
- Inversions
- Voicings
- Alternate names for chords
- Polychords
- Powerchords
- Slash Chords
Can now be found at Chords3
For example: Power Chords...
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9 - POWER CHORDS
A "chord" (see note) which contains no 3rd (suspended chords, and chords containing 3 or more notes exempted)
* NOTE: Technically, a power chord is not really a true "chord" because, by definition, a "chord" has to have a minimum of 3 notes. Power chords are also called "5" chords, notated as C 5.
Power chords are neither minor or major and therefore either scale
can be used over top of them.
CONTINUED HERE...
More on Power Chords
10 - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
interview with the Mermen's Allen Whitman:
11 - TWANGER GIVEAWAY
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12 - GUITAR MAGAZINES & GEAR GIVEAWAYS
Guitar Player Online
"Every month we'll take you inside Guitar Player for a look at our latest interviews, lessons and equipment tests, and serve up sights and sounds you'll find only online. Check the 30-year Artist Index for the month and year of stories on your favorite players. Online edition of Fretwire for news, views, gossip and rumors you won't find in the magazine."
Check out the Giveaway section, too!
Bass Player Online - online version of the monthly magazine, includes
Bass Giveaway
PLUS *** Visit the Fretted Instruments site
for your chance to win a Takamine G-330 Acoustic Guitar, Valued At $550
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13 - MORE SITES...
Doors & Jim Morrison:
14 - AWARD
The "1000 Great Guitar Sites" Tablature page
has been designated a "Cool Site" in the NewHoo
Arts/Music/Instruments/Guitar/Tablatures category
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16 - WIN PRIZES
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A - review a great guitar site
that I don't already have a link to
OR
B - write something for this Guitar Newsletter
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All entries are eligible for entry to the newsletter at a future date, but the prizes go to the most original / entertaining / interesting / useful article. It can be a funny guitar-related experience, a tip, joke, tab, review - anything fellow guitarists would enjoy reading!
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Newsletter END: Guitar Newsletter by Neil Shedden (Webmaster/Editor)
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