*********************************************************************** Internet Resources (Music/Guitar) *********************************************************************** In this file: Introduction Usenet newsgroups and FAQ files. Archives (Lyrics, Chords and Tablature, Docs, Software) WWW Sites Mailing Lists Books and Magazines (in the 'real' world :-) ) *********************************************************************** Introduction ------------ The guitar community on the net is among the most organized in free-cyberspace. This file tells you what is available for guitar players on the Internet. The resources break down into two main groupings - all the things you can do to get a (particular) sound out of a guitar, and all the things to do with putting those sounds in a particulat order. In other words, CONSTRUCTION (which includes everything from actual construction of guitars, strings, picks, pick-ups, amplification, peddles, down to nail-varnish) and PLAYING (which comprisies basically lyrics, chords and tablature) No one makes any money from these newsgroups, archive sites, mailing-lists and web pages. You may pay for your Internet access, but you don't pay anything for the material here. Be sure to thank those who type up lyrics/chords/tabs, give advice or run archives and web sites that you find useful. Where can I get this FAQ? ------------------------- The easiest place to get it is from alt.guitar, rec.music.makers.guitar, rec.music.info and news.answers, where it should be posted regularly. By anonymous ftp to the Guitar Archive, directory ./other_stuff/docs/guitar_resources.txt *********************************************************************** Usenet Newsgroups and FAQ files ------------------------------- rec.music.makers.builders rec.music.makers.guitar Discussion of the techical aspects to guitar: construction, maintenance, purchase effects. FAQ'S: Music equipment Mail/Phone List Pointers to Tim Stanley's WWW site (see below) rec.music.makers.bass As above, but of particular interest to bass players. rec.music.makers.guitar.tab A slight misnomer, as this groups is used for the posting of lyrics, chords AND tablature. FAQ'S: Welcome to the Usenet Tablature Newsgroups Guide to the TAB Archives (ftp, ftpmail, archie) How and Where to access the Guitar Archive rec.music.classical.guitar FAQ'S: rec.music.classical.guitar FAQ file rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic FAQ'S: rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic FAQ file alt.guitar alt.guitar.bass alt.guitar.tab alt.music.lyrics rec.music.makers.songwriting Posting ------- How you post to the groups will depend on how you read news. There will be some 'post' command on the software you are using. Some of these groups have email servers for (reading and) posting. E-mail posting to: alt.guitar.tab alt-guitar-tab@cs.utexas.edu rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature rec-music-makers-guitar-tablature@cs.utexas.edu Make the 'Subject:' line of your mail as you want it to appear in the newsgroup/s. Posting Guidelines ------------------ Make sure that your post is relevant to the group. Observe usual Usenet etiquette, such as: no gratuitous flaming, no spamming, keeping your .sig to 4 lines or less. NEVER post a request without first checking the Lyrics Archive or Guitar Archive. ALWAYS, always mail your completed transcriptions to the archives. For lyrics, email to datta@cs.uwp.edu For chords/tab, e-mail to guitar@nevada.edu Send multiple songs individually, or use tar. Preparing Chords ---------------- If you know how to play the chords for a song, don't wait to be asked! type them up and post them to the groups and the archive. The standard way of doing this is simply to put the chord names on a separate line above the lyrics. For example: Em D/F# G Four seasons in one day This can cause problems when people have different character widths and tab-settings on their screens, but since most people use standard ascii, this is usually not a problem. The other way of doing it is to embed the chords in square brackets in the lyrics. For example: [Em]Four seasons [D/F#]in one [G]day Files formatted in this way can be read by various utilities to produce output of the first type, which is considered easiest to read. Preparing Tab ------------- Tablature is tedious to do by hand in ascii, but can be done. Again, various packages exist to assist you, such as Tab-n-Fret, Tab-Master and Bucket-o-Tab which are available at the Guitar Archive, in the directory ./other_stuff Word 5 and later (Mac and PC) has 'vertical pasting', allowing you to select and paste part of a line or lines, rather than the whole thing. Simply hold down the 'option' key when selecting text. Even better, you can use 'insert' mode, and simply write-over a stave of blank tab lines. If you don't know what tab is, take at look at this: it's the beginning of a tab for 'Happy birthday' D7 e|--------------------------|-----------------3-------|--2-- ... B|------------------3-----3-|-5-------3---------------|--1-- ... G|--------------------------|-------------------------|--2-- ... D|--------------------------|-------------------------|--0-- ... A|--------------------------|-------------------------|--0-- ... E|--------------------------|-------------------------|----- ... 1 . 2 . 3 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 1 ... Ha - ppy Birth - day to You. ... Tab represents the guitar strings (bass tab would have only four such lines) and the fret positions. There are way of annotating most of the technique used by guitarists, such as hammering-on, sliding, raking, etc. For further introduction, see the WHAT_IS_TAB and 'suggested tab notation' files kept in the directory ./other_stuff at the Guitar Archive. *********************************************************************** Archives -------- How to access Archives The Lyrics Archive The Guitar Archive Other General Chord/Tab Archives Artist Archives Archived Guitar Documents Archived Software How to access Archives ---------------------- All of the following archives are ftp archives. This means that anyone with either ftp or http (a Web browser) can access them. Those with ftp only will not be able to access the Web sites in the next section. The best ways to access the Archives are: 1. Using the WWW - Web browsers such as "Mosaic" and "lynx" 2. Programs such as 'Fetch' on the mac. 3. (Unix only) Use Bob Zawalski's 'autotab' utility (based on 'getit'). You can get autotab from the Guitar Archive, in the directory ./other_stuff or by e-mail from bobz@crl.com 4. Manual ftp. This certainly used to be the most common way to ftp, but it ties up access for long periods of time. For information on how to use manual ftp, see Ryan Harding's 'Guide to the TAB Archives', posted to the newsgroups alt.guitar.tab and rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature twice a week. Anyone with e-mail can use a service called 'ftpmail'. Again, see Ryan's post for details. The Lyrics Archive ------------------ The lyrics archive is at ftp.uwp.edu/pub/ and is mirrored at ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/rec/music/vocal/lyrics/uwp Dave Datta (datta@cs.uwp.edu) is the maintainer. You can submit lyrics to the lyrics server by ftp (put the new lyrics into the /pub/incoming directory and send details by e-mail to Dave) or by e-mail to datta@cs.uwp.edu If you use ftp, also mail Dave with the following information: the name of the file the artist the title of the song/album The Guitar Archive ------------------ The Guitar Archive is a collection of chords and tabs for 6000+ songs. It is provided free to the Internet community thanks to the University of Nevada and the archive's administrators, and it can be accessed by the following methods at the following places. Most of these sites 'compress' their Archive. If using manual ftp, simply use one of the sites with 'On-the-fly' decompression, and type 'get filename.crd' even though the file is listed as filename.crd.Z or filename.crd.gz Decompression utilities for Macs and PC's are kept at the Guitar Archive in ./other_stuff Site Address Directory Anon. access On-the-fly ============ ===================== ============ ========== ftp.uwp.edu /pub/music/guitar 50 users Yes ftp.uu.net /doc/music/guitar * Yes unix.hensa.ac.uk /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar No limit Yes ftp.uni-stuttgart.de /pub/misc/guitar 100 users Yes ftp.diku.dk /pub/music/guitar 10 users Yes ftp.uni-paderborn.de /doc/guitar 20 users Yes ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ** Yes /pub/rec/music/guitar/songs/nevada ftp.cosy.sbg.ac.at /pub/mirror/guitar 4 users No * ftp.uu.net 60 from 0030 to 0530 and 1500 to 1730. 85 from 0530 to 1500 and 1730 to 2300. 70 from 2300 to 0030. All times are Eastern. ** ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de 10-20 world 20-40 Germany ******************************************************************************* Other General Chord/Tab Archives -------------------------------- ftp://gopher.ttu.edu/Pub/mailing_list_archives/cowpie-songs Cowpie Archives (Country) csclub.waterloo.ca/pub/u/dgaudet/guitar Acoustic guitar archive. Mirrored at all the Guitar Archive sites, and at ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/acoustic-guitar/transcriptions ftp.maths.tcd.ie/pub/music/guitar For the alternative, gothic and industrial music from the Guitar Archive. Mirrored at ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/rec/music/guitar/songs/trinity ftp.nada.kth.se/home/f91-jsc/guitar Chordpro-only archive containing most/all of the chopro songs at the Guitar Archive ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/doc/music Contains about 2400 files ******************************************************************************* Archives of Tab/Chord for a particular Artist --------------------------------------------- All of these artists have directories at the Guitar Archive and the other main archives, but you may be able to find a few files here that aren't at the main sites. ERIC CLAPTON daacdev1.stx.com/pub/slowhand/guitar CROWDED HOUSE ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/crowded-house/chords.and.tab PETER GABRIEL ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/gabriel/songbook PHISH The file 'chords' contains over 80 songs ftp.phish.net/pub/phish/text_files GENESIS ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/genesis/guitar.tabs PINK FLOYD ftp.uwp.edu/pub/music/lists/floyd/misc RUSH syrinx.umd.edu/rush/tab ************************************************************************** Guitar Document Sites --------------------- DISCOGRAPHIES, GIFs, etc ftp.maths.tcd.ie/pub/music LESSONS - 29 guitar lessons. ftp.vast.unsw.edu.au/pub/guitar-lessons ftp.maths.tcd.ie/pub/music/guitar/other_stuff/lessons ******************************************************************************* Software -------- Chord Utilities such as CHORD, Xpose, Guitare etc. Tab Utilities such as Tab-n-Fret, Bucket-o-Tab etc MAC and PC compression utilites (tar, gzip and compress) ...can all be found at the Guitar Archives sites, in the directory ./other_stuff Does anyone know sites for these? MusicTeX highly capable formatting language for music csound music generation from MIT (?) mixview highly recommended music generation songwriter write and print sheet music sox sound file conversion utility. ******************************************************************************* WWW Sites/Pages --------------- You need a Web browser such as lynx, Mosaic or Netscape to access the following addresses. ACOUSTIC - rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic WWW page http://io.com:8001/galvis/rmmga CHORDPRO - Related to the ChrodPro guitar archive. http://www.nada.kth.se/~f91-jsc CLASSICAL - rec.music.makers.classical.guitar WWW page http://www.teleport.com/~jdimick/cg.html CONSTRUCTION - Tim Stanley's Web-site of documents about: Electric guitar pickup review FAQ, Acoustic guitar pickup review FAQ. Books about building your own guitar, Customizing your guitar, and more... http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~tjs/ FLAMENCO - WWW Page http://www.teleport.com/~jdimick/fg.html GENERAL - WWW Music Resources Index 1 http://www.cecer.army.mil/~burnett/MDB/musicResources.html"> Hyperlinks to loads of WWW Music resources including loads of artist-related sites and some musical-style related "gig-lists" though mainly US oriented. GENERAL - WWW Music Resources Index 2 Similar to above. http://www.dsv.su.se/matti-hu/music.html"> GENERAL - Guitarland http://ftp.netcom.com/pub/jcarson/guitar/gl.html Hyperlinks to all the major guitar archives. Remote sites for the guitar newsgroups and the TAB groups FAQ. Guitar Lessons on-line. Guitarland is currently "under construction". GENERAL - Munich MUSIC archive http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/isar/archive/music/music_e.html Also available in German (same address but omit "music_e.html") Info about big events (like Woodstock '94) Hyperlinks to a Guitar Archive Site, Trinity College Dublin mirror and a mirror of Lyrics Archive Also, a Gopher searchable index for music documents on-site gopher://gopher.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/77/.wais-db/ftp-index Quite a lot of pictures (GIFs & JPEGs) and movies (MPEGs). Links to other WWW band sites & WWW general music pages as well as various FTP sites. GUITAR ARCHIVE - Searchable Index Guitar Archive http://www.engin.umich.edu/~disser/guitar.html THEORY - Dimitris Dranidis' "Introduction to Music Theory for Guitar" page http://www.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~dranidis/Music ******************************************************************************* Mailing Lists ------------- A mailing list is like a newsgroup except it gets mailed to you. There are usually two addresses: an administrative address and a reflector address. Mail sent to the reflector gets mailed out to all of the people who are subscribed to the list. If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe to the list, send it to the administrative address. A List of Musical Mailing Lists (LoMML) is maintained by Myra Wong and posted to rec.music.info. If you wish to obtain a copy try one of the following methods: - Use the "finger" command: "finger mkwong@sdcc13.ucsd.edu" or to save it as a file, use "finger mkwong@sdcc13.ucsd.edu > listinfo.txt" - Get it by FTP or ftpmail at location ftp.uwp.edu:/pub/incoming/faq/lomml - Get it from the World Wide Web (WWW) using a browser such as lynx or Mosaic from http://server.berkeley.edu/~ayukawa/lomml.html - If none of these are possible, then request it by email to Myra Wong at mkwong@sdcc13.ucsd.edu and be patient - Myra has to process requests manually. There are only about 2 of these lists for guitar manufacture/ upkeep/playing. The majority are for artists - you might pick up chords/tab there, or info on how a song is played. ******************************************************************************* Magazines and Books ------------------- For a list of books on guitar construction, see Tim Stanley's WWW site, above, under CONSTRUCTION. Magazines for guitar PLAYERS include: Guitar For the Practicing Musician Guitar Player Guitar School Guitar World Young Guitar (Japanese) A list of the music featured in GftPM and GW over the last decade or so is kept in both chronological and alphabetical order at the Guitar Archive in ./other_stuff/docs Books recommended for a beginner? jamesb@nevada.edu suggests: '"The Guitar Handbook" by Ralph Denyer. It is published by Knopf. When I used to give lessons, I took stuff straight out of the book.' For an advanced player? jamesb@nevada.edu suggests: '"The Jazz Language" by Dan Haerle. Published by studio. This is a popular book, and should be easy to find. Don't let the title scare you, it doesn't just teach jazz, it teaches theory. A very good source.' ******************************************************************************* Contributors: rcwoods@scrg.cs.tcd.ie (cal woods) ppalmer@cray.com (Pete Palmer) rkh2@ukc.ac.uk (Ryan K. Harding) Bob Zawalski (bobz@crl.com) jcarson@tivoli.com (Jim Carson) jamesb@nevada.edu (James Bender) ken@bnf.com (Ken Gibbs) meem@gnu.ai.mit.edu obry@bellcore.com robc@Newbridge.COM wegeng@eso.mc.xerox.com tjs@demon.eecs.umich.edu (tim stanley)