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In this edition:
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3 - PIECES FOR BEGINNERS TO PLAY
4 - MORE DISTRIBUTION ADVICE
5 - VISUALIZE
6 - Got a question you'd like answered?
7 - TABIT AND GUITARPRO
8 - WIN PRIZES
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3 - PIECES FOR BEGINNERS TO PLAY
From James Watt
Hi my name is James Watt. I have been playing the guitar
for only a couple of months. When I was beginning I could
never find any songs which were really easy to play.
So I thought I might be able to help fellow beginners
by listing a few songs that were easy for me to learn,
remember and play.
Calypso by Spiderbait
Come as you are by Nirvana
Just Ace by Australian Band Grinspoon
Dammit Tablature by Blink182
The beginning of Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
When I come round, by Greenday
Song 2 by Blur
Stairway to Heaven
Hope this can help someone.
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4 - MORE DISTRIBUTION ADVICE
Following on from the previous distribution advice, here's some more sound advice from LA Music Talks
"The bottom line for distribution is targeting
the group who might buy your product
and figuring out how to reach them."
"Getting distribution isn't the end-all, cure-all. You can ship 500 pieces
and get them all back if you haven't been able to reach your target
audience. Distributors get records into stores. Most do little to promote
it. Stores tell me that records sell because people know the artist. Before
taking in your product, distributors want to see that you have a market."
"Don't worry so much about distribution before you get a buzz going. Focus
more energy on getting reviews, getting radio play, increasing the fan
base. In other words, create
a demand first. Then send a one page letter or a one-sheet giving a brief
synopsis of success with media, radio, gigs, etc. anything that shows the
act is marketable."
Extract of article by:
Daylle Deanna Schwartz
of
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more on distribution...
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5 - VISUALIZE
by Kirk Lorange lorange@kirk.net
The fretboard of the guitar can be a very scary place when you start out: 6
strings, 15 or more usable frets -- adds up to 90 plus places to put your
fingers.
Like most beginners, I spent most of my early days playing within the first
five or so frets. The only friend I had was the nut. It was constant. I
could rely on it always being there. I knew that as I worked my way up the
neck deciphering the fretboard I'd need a new way of thinking.
As I wrote last week, the beauty of the guitar is its pattern mobility, the
way that any fingering pattern, be it chordal or melodic, can be moved up
or down the neck. It was when I started to visualize my familiar bits and
pieces up the neck that I began to forge ahead as a player. The terrifying
no-man's-land of the upper reaches of the fretboard was tamed. If you can
visualize the music before you play it, you can be sure that it's going to
be right. If you can look down and see on the fretboard that great note you
hear in your head, you can attack it with confidence.
All notes, scales, double stops, chords and harmonies are part of a context
as I keep reiterating. The more you visualize the music you're playing, the
more you'll begin to see relationships, 'see' the context I keep talking
about.
Visualisation can become so ingrained that you can practice in your brain
while laying in bed. I do it all the time. Drives me nuts.
Please, come and visit my site for more on the subject, and please, drop me a line in my guestbook. I know you're out there.
Regards from Sunny Queensland (Beautiful one day, Perfect the next)
Read Kirk's previous articles in the Newsletter Archive
Or linked from the Tuition page
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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7 - TABIT AND GUITARPRO
From: AgentxNofx@aol.com
About a year and a half ago, before I started playing guitar. I used to
use my computer all the time, on aol. Then one day I decided to check out
things that might be able to help me learn how to play the guitar better.
So, I did a search on through aol's file search, and a few things popped up.
The first I clicked on was Tabit 1.20, I realized what a nice peice of
software it was. I thought it was awesome, after a couple months of using
the Tabit 1.20, and taking lessons at the local music store I was fairly
good at playing guitar if I say so myself.
Well anyways to get to the point, lots of people think that
Tabit 1.20 is the best Guitar Tablature Editor type thing out the, but I
found something that is way better than that!
One day when I was searching for some Guitar/Tablature pages so I could put them on, the Tabit 1.20 to see how it
would compare to the way that I had tabbed it out for some song. I came
across a great piece of software, that was simialar to Tabit, it was called
Guitar-Pro.
After a few minutes of messing with it, I found it pretty easy to use the
software. I could play my Guitar along with the Guitar Pro, and it would
sorta be just like jamming with my friends, except for the Obvious (can't
just starting playing other songs ). But then, my friends that I play with
had computers and I could jam out stuff on my guitar. And we could come up
with songs like that, and when you print them out they look like the top
quality stuff.
Anyways, I suggest that anyone that likes Tabit, should check this one out.
The latest version that is out know is Guitar-Pro 2.16. To find out more,
go to guitar-pro.com
Here are some of the things that you can do with Guitar-Pro:
- Guitar Pro is a tablature editor for guitar, banjo and bass.
- Tablature files can include 8 tracks (7 instruments and percussion).
- All tracks are totally configurable (instrument, tuning, volume, chorus,
reverb, pan).
- Guitar Pro allows you to listen to tablatures with effects and to print
them.
- It also possible to export and import in MIDI and ASCII Tab formats.
- Guitar Pro helps you to transcribe traditional musical scores into
tablature.
- Guitar Pro also contains an extensive chord dictionary (this thing helps
me out a lot) which will recognise and store additional chords entered by
the user.
- Lastly, Guitar Pro is available in French, English, German, Spanish,
Italian and Portuguese. You can check out the exact Computer performance
specifications
For related info, see:
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