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Guitar Newsletter #3 - 30 August 1998


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Guitar Newsletter #3 - 30 August 1998

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Welcome to the third edition of the Guitar Newsletter, from Neil Shedden, the Webmaster of "1000 Great Guitar Sites on the Web". If you missed previous editions, you can see them in the archive

Subscribers get this newsletter first, but each edition will be archived here on the site for general access later, where you may read it as an HTML document.

In this edition:

1 - *** WIN PRIZES ***
2 - LAP STEELS
3 - WOMAN GUITARIST WANTED
4 - ONLINE DESIGN
5 - TABLATURE
6 - ONLINE CD SALES & MUSIC
7 - DROP D TUNING SLIDE GUITAR
8 - TO READ OR NOT TO READ?
9 - FLAMENCO
10- FINALLY

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1 - *** WIN PRIZES ***

OK, here’s you chance to help fellow musicians AND help yourself to a valuable prize! All you have to do is submit a short entry for a future Guitar Newsletter (sent to GuitarMaster@hitsquad.com). Please keep it short (no more than 200 words or so, but you can link to a longer article on the Web). 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, new/original tab, or review.

What do you win? Thanks to Smith Family Music of Idaho we have three ENHANCRs to give away! The new Model Series 2000 ENHANCR fits most acoustic guitars and installs easily. The basic principle behind the ENHANCR is simple; vibrating metal placed atop a guitar makes the entire guitar body vibrate more. Six metal cones, held together by a steel wire, slide under each individual string of the guitar. When each string is picked the cone under that string vibrates against the bridge of the guitar, sending an additional vibration into the guitar body. Check it out
Contact: Smith Family Music, 9175 Butte Road, Sweet, Idaho 83670. Toll Free: (800) 942-6509, Fax: (208) 584-3312
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2 - LAP STEELS

A new entry on the Guitar Manufacturers page is Melobar Guitars Inc. - Lap Steels / SteelGitr. The Smith Family have been building their unique Melobar Lap Steels and Stand-up Steels for over 30 years. Introducing this year a double neck with the Pat. Melobar neck on the bottom and a Lic. Fender neck on top, play Steel-Standard and now even a Dobroism effect all in the same guitar, Ala Junior Brown style. See also the Enhancr for acoustic guitars and a specialized on-line store for the unique as well as used Martins etc.
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3 - WOMAN GUITARIST WANTED

A Nashville based working road band w/label interest needs a female lead guitarist w/strong country and blues skills. Must be willing to relocate. Professional attitude, good look, and pro rig a must! Band plays 50 weeks a year in US and Europe. Good money. Come on now think! You know a female lead guitarist somewhere in this world! E-mail us at: camilles@earthlink.net or Fax us: c/o M.S. (615) 254-8667

See more on Women Performers
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4 - ONLINE DESIGN by Dwight Maddox:

"I am a custom guitar maker from West Point Mississippi, birthplace of Howlin' Wolf. I have a very unique web site. You can design your own custom guitar right there on the web site. You can pick a guitar from the template list, change any part of the body shape, change headstocks, put different pickups on it, and then put a finish on it. I also have a chat room where I can chat with people on my Webpage that are designing a guitar or just looking around. We are in the process of adding new guitars to the slide show and to the template system." Check it out
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5 - TABLATURE

What do you think of this? Iris by Goo Goo Dolls: 
Tuning: DADDAD (weird, uh??)

        INTRO:
Chords: x20050
        x20040
        333000
        332000
        330000

        VERSE:  (arpegio)alternate between the first three chords and
        000000           then the other three
        2x0000
        550000

        x20000
        x00000
        550000

        CHORUS:

        x20000
        x00000
        550000
There are a couple new TABs in the archive: Hotel California by the Eagles and Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple

There is also a good selection of Hendrix tabs, either individually, or as one 60K zip file

And 150 Smashing Pumpkins tabs can be had in one 188K zip file

I am looking for original TABS to add to this modest archive. Mail me with any you are happy to have hosted on "1000 Great Guitar Sites"... My Web space is limited, so do you want the obscure or popular?


Guitar Notes comprehensively lists guitar sites and A-Z tabs. The guitar tab search engine indexes guitar music from all over the net, including OLGA files and tabs for other sites. There are thousands of artists in the listings to help you find what you want.

If you would like the search engine to index tablature from your own site, you can now submit your tablature to the search engine. Guitar Notes does not actually archive tablature files, but rather provides a portal to such resources on the net.
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6 - ONLINE CD SALES & MUSIC
** SPECIALS

** Forthcoming releases:

** Recent releases:

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 CD NOW CD NOW link. As well as quick delivery of thousands of CDs in stock, they’ve got sound clips, reviews & other merchandise.
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7 - DROP D TUNING SLIDE GUITAR

Following on from last weeks popular article, Kirk Lorange has added a crash course in Drop D slide guitar to his site
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8 - TO READ OR NOT TO READ?

Contrary to popular belief, being a session guitarist does not necessarily mean you have to be a fluent reader. Many producers and musical directors are keyboard players and have no idea how to write for guitar. In fact many producers have very little musical knowledge and get their results by hiring the right players. More often than not, a chord chart is all that you get. As a professional you are expected to turn that chord progression into music. It is therefore often more important to be able to invent something on the spot than to be a fluent reader with nothing to read and nothing to say...

You can read the rest of this weeks article by Kirk here
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9 - FLAMENCO

Daniel Muñoz writes to say:
Hola,
I am writing you from Flamenco World, our site is dedicated to flamenco music. It is an online magazine and store (made in Spain). Flamenco guitar is one of the main interests of our readers. It is a bilingual site: Spanish/ English. We are offering some free tabs and transcriptions, lots of free realaudios and some interesting contents about flamenco guitar Thanks for your time. Gracias!
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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’s number one?
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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.



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