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Guitar Newsletter #2 - 23 August 1998

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Hi there & welcome to the second edition of the Guitar Newsletter, from Neil Shedden, the Webmaster of 1000 Great Guitar Sites on the Web. If you missed the first edition, you can see it on the Web here

In this edition:
  1. - Bands/Artists: Hole/Celebrity Skin preview
  2. - Music Sites: Musicians Network
  3. - Article: Tuning Slide Guitar by Kirk Lorange
  4. - Brief: Warm Up
  5. - Tuition: Vision Music/Mark Stefani
  6. - Resources: Ducks Deluxe
  7. - Online CD Sales & Music: Forthcoming Releases CD NOW/Rockhouse/The CD Music Page
  8. - TAB/Chords: "Redundant" by Green Day
  9. - 1998 Guitar Database
  10. - Finally: Whats New/Top 100
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1 - BANDS / ARTISTS

Courtney Love and Hole have put the finishing touches on their long-awaited new CD "Celebrity Skin". Their video for the title track makes its exclusive world premiere on MTV August 26th. You can hear exclusive online sound clips and reserve your copy on advance order. Peek here and you'll be among the first to hear songs from "Celebrity Skin".


2 - MUSIC SITES

The Musicians Network offers Free Online Services: artist, bands, music sites, awards, banner exchange, musicians classifieds, calendar of events, strings, accessories - free websites, emails, on line mall, links, search engines and much more.


3 - TUNING SLIDE GUITAR

Open vs normal tuning slide guitar, by Kirk Lorange:

If you live in Australia, you have heard my slide guitar many times over the past 20 or so years, on TV and radio ads. I have done Coke ads (Sky Surfer), tyre ads Caltex ads, beer ads, Telecom ads. Scads of ads! Anyone interested in slide guitar has no doubt experimented with open tunings, as I did to when I first started playing. To my delight, I quickly was getting all those sounds I heard other people playing.

Easy! Too easy. It soon got boring. The richness of possibilities that normal tuning offers was gone. So I started playing in normal tuning, then settled on a drop-D tuning (only the 6th string), which gives the best of both worlds. The drop D gives you two tonics and a fifth on the bass strings, an open-tune sound with no third, neither major nor minor.

If you know where to look, normal tuning is littered with positions where notes line up for anything you want to state: major, minor, diminished, augmented. And everything is where it should be. No need to rethink the whole fretboard. The trick is then to mute those strings you don’t want ringing. I use the fingers, thumb and the heel of my right hand to choke all strings that are not required.

The best advice of all though is: use heavier strings and use a heavy slide. My slides are lathed from solid brass. I string my Strat up 12 to 54, just like my acoustics. I get a big fat note and very little clanking around on the frets.

There are many kinds of guitar playing but none have the freedom of slide guitar. It really is the most fun of all - Kirk Lorange http://lorange.kirk.net


For more on slide, also checkout Brad's Page of Steel - an appreciation of lap steel and slide guitar, with tablatures, recordings, tunings and artist profiles. Great resource, updated regularly.


Slide Guitar Tips and Tunings can be also be found at Guitar Lesson World. This provides lessons on theory with everything from scales and modes to chord construction. The online guitar lessons are by Patrick MacFarlane, a guitarist from western Pennsylvania


4 - WARM UP

Whenever you're going to do any form of strenuous exercise you should always warm up first if you want to avoid possibly hurting yourself. Warm up before you do pretty much anything on the guitar, be it recording, playing a gig or rehearsing. There are many bones, tendons and muscles involved in moving your fingers around, so before you start flailing 'em around recklessly, you should really do some form of warm up. Read more from Guitar World article by Marty Friedman or more articles from the Guitarist Health section


5 - TUITION

Vision Music "offering the highest level of professional music lessons for the evolving guitarist or bassist. I've taught music full-time for over twenty-six years, and have put my heart and soul into what many believe is the finest music instruction site on the web!" - Mark Stefani


6 - RESOURCES

Ducks Deluxe is a manufacturer of guitar products. The Website at www.ducksdeluxe.com/ is a combination of marketing and public service - dedicated to the guitar not only as a business but also as an enthusiast, e.g. free sample pages from the "Ultimate Notebook" you can printout from the site.

For the guitar collector/dealer/trader there is "Dr.Ducks Dating Service" - how to tell the age of a guitar - for over four dozen brands of guitars. There is also an "Upcoming Guitar Shows & Events" page for all of those who like guitar swap meets and live music. The site has music links & jokes, too.


7 - ONLINE CD SALES & MUSIC

At CD NOW you get up to 30% OFF and I get 5% commission (at no cost to you) on any "CD NOW" sale through my site, which helps support this newsletter & the guitar site & database. Just search from this link CD NOW

As well as quick delivery of thousands of CDs in stock, they have sound clips, reviews & other merchandise.

Checkout the following NEW releases for 25 August 1998:
other CDs can be found on the CD page

Looking for something different? Try the Rockhouse label from Holland. It specialises in: fifties, sixties, instrumentals, surf, etc. Including a lot of small independent labels & Dutch rarities & instrumental bands.

Or what about "The CD Music Page" This site promotes independent music with text, sound excerpts, images, Quicktime movies and news. Take a look at the signup page for information on how your band can get on this site.


8 - TABLATURE & CHORDS

Last week we showcased "FEEDBACK - A "New Wave" in Guitar Tabs" - a free guitar tab e-zine sent right to your e-mail box" Here is a sample of what you get sent if you subscribe: "Redundant" by Green Day, from the CD: Nimrod. Transcribed by: Brendan Sobczynski


9 - 1998 GUITAR DATABASE

There are now nearly 1000 entries in the database. To make it more manageable in the browser, entries are now displayed 10 at a time through the eight categories - take a look

You may also submit your site to the 1998 Guitar Database


10 - FINALLY Remember to checkout what’s new on the "1000 Great Guitar Sites" each day and why not support this site by visiting the "Top 100 Guitar Sites" and see who is number one?


As a visitor to the site, you already know that it aims to showcase the best that the Web has to offer to those interested in the guitar. This newsletter is an extension to that, aiming to review sites and products in an attempt to save your time surfing, letting you know what is new on the site & what is hot on the Net! Entries will be kept short, with references to URLs for further reading, rather that full text articles.

If you want to include your own brief article (250 words max.) for the next newsletter, just mail me. Only entries deemed to be of great interest to the readers will be enclosed, though (humour, tips, tricks, reviews) - I do not want to bore readers with a deluge of advertising or unwarranted self-promotion.



Remember to checkout what's new on the "1000 Great Guitar Sites" each day
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