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Here are the four reasons why the guitar has been the dominant instrument in popular music over the last 50 years: • Guitars look cool. • Guitars sound cool. • Guitars are easy to carry. • Even a novice can get a halfway decent sound out of a guitar. Getting a fully decent sound out of a gui Both sites have useful tutorials with incredi bly thorough links (Guitar Notes’ color coded list is particularly mind-boggling). To get the most out of online guitar instruction, you should learn to read tabla ture (tab for short), a type of musical dia gram that indicates notes by their position on a fretboard. If all you want is to be able to play the chords, there’s no point in learn tar takes a lot ot work, and a good teacher can be a big help. And there are plenty teachers—virtual ones—on the Internet. Of course there's no shortage of sites trying to Hggg ing the difference between a G and C clef. Tab won't tell you how long a note lasts though, so unless you already know the song, it’s not that much of a help. Some sites will give you ben you siutt. i nere are also plenty of sites that sell individual instruction. But you don’t have to spend a cent. Many top-notch sites, featuring nota tion, audio files and video clips, are com pletely free. Two places for 6-string wisdom are Harmony Central (harmony-central.com) and Guitar Notes (guitarnotes.com), both with a wide range of info on musical subjects. scales, chords and tips, and others will show you how to play songs, but rarely do the twain meet. Lots of sites can tell you what the chords to “Satisfaction” are, but you’ll have to go somewhere else to learn how to finger those chords. So browse around for complementary sites. • For more info about learning to play guitar and other instruments online, go to steamtunnels.net and search using keyword “guitar." Deftones and Incubus 12/3-Tampa, FL: USF Sundome 12/5-New Orleans, LA: State Palace Theater 12/7-St. Louis, MO: Fox Theatre 12/8-St. Paul, MN: Roy Wilkins Theater 12/14-Portland, OR: Roseland Theater 12/15-San Francisco, CA: Cow Palace 12/16 and 12/17-Universal City, CA: Universal Amphitheater Barenaked ladies 11/29-Portland, ME: Cumberland Civic Center 12/2-Buffalo, NY: HSBC Arena 12/4—Indianapolis, IN: Conseco Fieldhouse 12/5-Milwaukee, Wl: Bradley Center 12/6-Auburn Hills, Ml: Palace of Auburn Hills 12/31 -Boston, MA: Fleet Center Ben Harper 11 /20—Asheville, NC: Asheville Civic Center 12/26 and 12/27-Aspen, CO: Wheeler Opera House moe 12/1 -St. Louis, MO: The Pageant 12/2-Chicago, IL: Vic Theater Links to Guitar Instruction Sites harmony-central.com guitarnotes.com whoienote.com ,:v|j activeguitar.com www.guitarists.net guitar-masters.com visionmusic.com guitar4u.com oiga.net 12/5—Cincinnati, OH: Bogart’s 12/6-Ann Arbor, Ml: Michigan Theater 12/7-Cleveland, OH: Odeon Theater 12/8 and 12/9-Washington, D.C.: ' 9:30 Club Paul Simon 11 /24-Chicago, IL: Auditorium Theater 12/1-Boston, MA: Orpheum Theater 12/7, 12/8, 12/9-New York, NY: Beacon Theater Dixie Chicks 11 /27—Bakersfield, CA: Centennial Garden and Convention Center 12/1 -Houston, TX: Compaq Center 4 steamtunnels.net
