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In this edition:
by Kirk Lorange lorange@kirk.net
As I wrote in The kink in the tuning, the guitar is designed and tuned to give the player a wealth of
possibilities and approaches to making music. This repetition of the same
notes and chords in different positions is also the reason the guitar seems
so complicated.
Fortunately, the guitar compensates for this by allowing for movable
chords, something keyboard players can only dream about. The first movable
chords we learn as beginners are bar chords. I can't remember the last time
I played a full bar chord -- my style of playing has no use for them -- but
this move-ability applies to any fingering pattern on the fretboard. Every
time you discover a new inversion of a chord, say a G major 9 over its III
(B), you have also learned all the other major 9's over III, simply by
moving your shape up or down the neck. That's the beauty of the guitar.
Take good advantage of it and train yourself to analyze every thing you
play and to apply it to all keys. Move these discoveries around, and add
them to your musical vocabulary. This analytical approach to playing /
practicing sounds cold and boring, but it quickly becomes second nature.
The most difficult thing about learning anything is finding the lowest
common denominator, some bottom line that everything else can be viewed
against. Once you know that, you can build back up as fancy as your fingers
allow.
Come read about the bottom line
Merry Christmas from Tamborine Mountain, Australia, where it's coming up to
Summer. It was a perfect 28 degrees Celcius today.
Kirk Lorange
PO Box 186
North Tamborine
Queensland 4272 Australia
Ph / Fax +6175 545 0138
lorange@kirk.net
www.lorange.cjb.net
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2 - WHO'S PLAYING WHERE?
The music page has Links to Concert Information
Tourdates.Com will tell you who's playing when,
and TicketMaster will let you book online.
A great source of free info, even if you're
not actually buying tickets!
E.g, I found out that the Stones are playing Denver
on my birthday, Feb 2, and that tickets cost from
$39.50 to $250... so if you were wondering what to get me...
Problem is, you'd need to provide the airfare, too,
as I live "Down Under"!
ticketmaster.com
tourdates.com
Also try these:
Ultimate Bands List: Concerts
Pollstar
www.performancemag.com/
Concert Direct
Concerts Calendar
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3 - BO DIDDLEY's 70th birthday
From: David Blakey
BO DIDDLEY will celebrate his 70th birthday on
Wednesday December 30th 1998.
I have collected together over 60 special birthday greetings
from musicians and friends of BO DIDDLEY on my site
BO DIDDLEY-The Originator
and am encouraging his many fans around the world to visit
the site and sign the Guestbook with their own greetings.
This is a unique opportunity for musicians and fans alike to
send their birthday greetings to this legendary musician
and much-loved and respected man.
BO DIDDLEY-The Originator
A celebration of his unique contribution to Popular Music.
Also check out for Bo Diddley info at this site:
Bio
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4 - IRON MAIDEN REMASTERED AND ENHANCED
Iron Maiden have re-released their first 9 studio albums and 3 live albums.
These new remasters are enhanced CDs with video clips and more.
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5 - INTERVIEW WITH MARC CAMPBELL
An Interview with Musician/Booking agent Marc Campbell:
Beats E-Zine (BE) meets up with Marc Campbell (MC) ...
BE - What are you involved with in the music industry?
MC - Well right now I am booking three different rooms. Gonzalez y Gonzalez
[NYC], which is a Latin room, The Rodeo Bar [NYC] which is Americana,
country, French & Country Western and Louisiana Community Bar and Grill
[NYC], which is primarily blues, R&B, funk, swing music...
Read the full interview here
MORE INTERVIEWS
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6 - ONLINE MUSIC AWARDS
You can check out the Online Music Awards at the Los Angeles Music Magazine
Website
You might even like to vote for "1000 Great Guitar Sites" at
www.vicnet.net.au/~guitar ;-)
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7 - MUSIC ON THE INTERNET
There are two ways to deliver music on the Web. The first is to make your
song into a downloadable file. There are four main file types: wav, aiff,
au, and MPEG3. The sound quality for all file types is decent, with MPEG3
being practically CD quality.
The downside is the user has to wait to download the file, which can
sometimes take a while. MPEG3 has become the new standard: Internet
Explorer supports it, so those users won't need to get a plugin. Windows
98 will come with an MPEG3 player built in.
Those who use Netscape or other browsers can download a player
To convert your music to one of these types of files, use CoolEdit
or Sound Forge XP
To avoid making the user wait, stream your audio by using
software like RealAudioTM (available at www.real.com for
free), QuickTime3, LiquidAudio, or Netshow. The sound quality may suffer
slightly but the music starts to play at the click of a button, so it's a
sacrifice many Web site owners are willing to make.
It should be noted that slow modems (14.4 and under) may
experience cut-out where the music is interrupted while the
computer waits for more information to be sent. However, this problem will
probably not be a problem for long as faster modems become readily available.
This is an excerpt from Disc Makers' "The Musician's Guide to the Web". You
can get the entire guide for free.
Call 1-800-468-9353,
Visit:
www.discmakers.com/webguide
or write to info@discmakers.com
Carolyn Ballen
Disc Makers
Marketing Manager
cballen@discmakers.com
609-663-9030
Much MORE on sound for sites:
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8 - ALWAYS SOMETHIN' BREWIN'
From: Tranthum
I'd like to direct your attention to ASB (Always Somethin' Brewin') which
is a platform for independent musicians and artists of all media type to
assist them in finding outlets. Unleaded for unplugged and Leaded for
plugged.
This should be of help to find places for all types of musicians. If you
have creative forces in your organization such as poets, painters and the
like, this can also be of assistance to them.
It just went up yesterday, but I will try my best to enter information as I
receive it. If you know of such places I would deeply appreciate an email
to The_Brew@onelist.com with a contact name, Name of business, address,
phone, email, fax, URL anything you can assist with.
Visit my site at
www.afr.com/JNK
to see and hear the sights and sounds of my original music....
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9 - TUITION SITE
If you want to learn where all of the sheet music notes *and* natural
harmonics lie on the guitar, and also work on Perfect Pitch and Relative
Pitch, Intervals, Scales, Chords with a digitally rendered 3D fretboard and
digitally sampled sound, check out:
www.Guitarra.com
home of Virtualoso Guitar
More tuition resources at:
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10 - TUNING YOUR GUITAR USING NATURAL HARMONICS
From: Fajar Siswandaru
How To Use Natural Harmonics
You can use this technique both on Acoustic and Electric guitars, although
it sounds meaner on electric with distortion.
The natural harmonics can be heard perfectly at the 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th,
16th, 19th fret on EVERY string on
the guitar. That doesn't mean trying this technique on the other frets
won't work, it's just that only on those frets the sound produced comes out
perfectly or completely ringed out.
Here's how to do it...
Hope all of this can help you improve your playing...
Fajar S
www.infoguitar.com
Guitar, Music And More
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11 - HUMOR / JOKES
Must be the "Silly Season", we've had a few funnies submitted recently...
From Peter Blue...
Have you been afraid, that rap might last forever?
Now there is hope.
(Check our news section and follow the link "hope")
www.bluestar.de
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and from: Bill Dettmer
David dies and goes to heaven. St Peter says ' how did things go for you
back on earth?' David says, 'not too bad. I left a wife, 3 kids, a pretty
good bank balance, no mortgage and my wife will get another 100,000 from
the insurance.' 'Great', says St Peter, 'what was it you did while you
were alive?' ' Oh I was in Real estate.' 'Good oh, come on in' says the St.
Bruce follows David up to the pearly gates and gets the same sort of
welcome and questions.
'yes well I left a wife and two kids, a little house in the suburbs, a few
dollars in the bank, car's paid for and they should be OK with things.
Good oh, come on in.
Billy was next in line and gets the questions from the old guy. 'yes well
I left my 4th wife, most of my gears in the Cash Converters, cars rooted,
never did quite make it to where I really thought I should have been.' 'Oh
well', says St P. 'and which band was it that you played with?'
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Guitarist finishes gig and is the last one in the place with the barman,
who asks if he'd like a scotch before he goes home. The player says 'sure'
and the barman plonks down a big glass of the juice and a little bowl of
peanuts to go with it, then wanders off to wipe down the counter.
This leaves the gun guitarist all by himself for a minute. From nowhere a
little voice says 'great gig man, you're one hot picker'. The player looks
at the barman and says 'thanks' and the barman says 'what for' and the
player says 'for sayin' nice things about my work'. The barman says ' I
didn't say nothing'.
The guitarist thinks it's late and he's a bit spaced so he'd better head
off when another little voice says 'yeah great licks man and nice moves
too, you sure cut it up there'. The guitar player turns around and says
'thanks' but there's nobody there.
The feller at the bar says 'are you ok?' cause the picker looks a bit pale
and the guitarist says 'yeah, I think so'. Then, as he empties his glass
another voice says 'hot licks, great look, wonderful style man, the chicks
sure got off on you' and the bloke says 'OK! THAT'S IT! WHAT'S GOING ON
HERE?'
The barman runs down and says 'what's your problem dude?' to which the
guitarist says 'WHERE ARE THOSE VOICES COMING FROM? IS THIS CANDID CAMERA?'
'What voices? What are they saying?' When the guitarist tells the barman
what was going on and what was said, the barman says 'oh that'll be the
peanuts man, they're complementary!'
From: Bill Dettmer
*groan* Thanks, Bill!
More JOKES HERE
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If you go to Musician Jokes page at Duck's Deluxe
you'll find jokes like these:
"What's the difference between a guitar and a tuna fish?"
"You can tune a guitar but you can't tuna fish..."
And here you'll find even more
If you've got your own original joke or funny tale, why not share it with
us? You could even win a prize!
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12 - WIN PRIZES
OK, here's you chance to help fellow musicians AND help yourself to a valuable prize! All you have to do is write something for this Guitar Newsletter (sent to GuitarMaster@hitsquad.com)
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 long or short, a funny guitar-related experience, a tip, joke, tab, review - anything fellow guitarists would enjoy reading!
What do you win? You can check out some of the prizes
Don't forget, the offer is still open to win a cassette tape of Leighton Watts music
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