Fret Filings - (Anne's Blog)

Sunday, January 29, 2012

5 YEARS
Topic: Website

A.G.T.A. - 5th Anniversary

Posted by planet/zerofret at 6:25 AM EST
Updated: Sunday, January 29, 2012 6:26 AM EST
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

4TH ANNIVERSARY
Topic: Website

JANUARY 29, 2011 - ANNE'S GUITAR TAB ARCHIVE IS 4 YEARS OLD

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Saturday, January 29, 2011 2:22 AM EST
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

SITE NOTICE
Topic: Website

I'm currently not online, without access to the Internet. I don't expect that to change any time soon. This means no new additions to the site for the foreseeable future. I'm still working on tabs/riffs/chords, and if I get a chance to upload some things now and then, I will. Thanks, as always, for your interest in the site.

Posted by planet/zerofret at 9:15 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:15 PM EDT
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

MORE REVISIONS - "YOUR DADDY DON'T KNOW"
Topic: Website

Time for more repair work. A while back I did a post about revisions I had done to the tab of "Hollywood". That was just a bit of tinkering to make the main riff play better. This time it's the tab of "Your Daddy Don't Know", and it's a much bigger overhaul. Almost every staff in the tab has been altered.

Some parts were changed just because I noticed while watching the video that they were playing some chords in a different spot from where I had them tabbed. So for example, some changes are things like moving a Bb5 chord from the 6th fret to the 1st fret. I also changed the verses from being partial chords to single notes. I added in a Guitar 2 part for the Bridge, and a slight variation of that part is also the rhythm guitar part during the solo. I've added that variation at the end of the tab. Solo parts were mostly left untouched, except for the first two bars of the solo and Bars 3 & 4 of the Outro. Finally, some of the lyrics were in the wrong place timing-wise and had to be adjusted.

Glad I finally got that done, because I've been wanting to fix that one up for a while now since that tab gets viewed pretty frequently. The revised tab:

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/toronto-yourdaddydontknow.txt

Posted by planet/zerofret at 1:41 AM EST
Updated: Thursday, February 4, 2010 1:47 AM EST
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Friday, January 29, 2010

AGTA's 3RD ANNIVERSARY
Topic: Website

AGTA is three years old today! January 29 is the date I chose as Day 1 back in the beginning, the day I had all of the tabs loaded onto the site and decided it was pretty much ready for the world. It was a one page site then. It's evolved some since that time, although it's always served the same simple purpose...guitar tabs. The most recent addition has been the AGTA YouTube channel (such as it is

).

I thought the video below would be perfect to help celebrate this momentous occasion of being 3.

This should take some of you back to the Saturday morning cartoons of your childhood. I know it does for me. I distinctly remember this one, and apparently it was the very first Schoolhouse Rock video. I can even still remember them singing the "Multiplication Rock is brought to you by...your favourite General Foods" tag line that came at the end of these segments, although it's not included in this video.

3 is a magic number...yes, it is...

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:48 AM EST
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

AGTA GOES VISUAL
Topic: Website

The video age has arrived here at the Archive, with the posting of my first videos at YouTube. During the holiday season I kept seeing those TV commercials for Flip pocket camcorders ("Do you Flip?") and I thought they seemed pretty cool. It was the promise of their ease of use that appealed to me, since I had no particular wish to delve deeply into the technical aspects of videography (and my existing knowledge of it was nil).

I thought it might be fun to do some guitar videos as an addition to the site, just play some songs and riffs that I've tabbed. Or at least see if I could do some videos, since performing is sure not my strong point. With transcribing you can play parts as slow as necessary, and you don't have to get every note and chord right in a single take. Filming is a whole different story. Give me an audience or a little red recording light and I can all but forget which one is the E string...even though I have a 2 out of 6 chance of being right!

I did some research, compared specs of various pocket camcorders, and settled on a Flip Mino (SD). After a bit of practice with it on various subjects, I started to try some guitar video.

Drop by my YouTube page/channel, if you're interested in having a look. Here's a link to the page:

https://www.youtube.com/zerofretAnne

There's not much there yet, just a couple of videos. Feel free to leave a comment for any of the videos, either there or here...like "Don't give up your tab job" or "Why are you wearing a Penguins shirt when you're a Habs fan?"

or "What's that black blob in the foreground in the Chilliwack chords video?" (It's one of my cats.)

I've embedded one of the videos here, the riff from Toronto's "Delirious". Hopefully, I'll get better at this over time. And the guitars could use some intonation work. Meanwhile, on the tab front, I have a riff completed and a tab in the works. My computer was into the shop so I'm running a bit behind on getting them into the computer. But I hope to have them posted soon.

Posted by planet/zerofret at 6:23 PM EST
Updated: Saturday, January 23, 2010 7:45 PM EST
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Friday, January 15, 2010

BACK TO "HOLLYWOOD"
Topic: Website

I never was entirely happy with the way I tabbed the main riff in the tab I did of Streetheart's "Hollywood". Specifically, that would be the third staff of the Intro (and all of its repetitions throughout the song). Parts of the fingering for the riff seemed awkward. So I was fiddling around with it last night, and came up with a better fingering. I didn't actually change that much. All the notes are exactly the same, I've just moved a few to different locations. It shifts the overall position on the fretboard just a bit (making it more comfortable). I still don't know exactly how Streetheart plays it, but I think the minor changes I've made make the fingering fall a bit more naturally on the fretboard.

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/streetheart-hollywood.txt

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Friday, January 15, 2010 12:27 AM EST
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

MOST-VIEWED TABS
Topic: Website

When I post the tab view stats at the end of each month, the list of overall most-viewed tabs is always dominated by tabs from the Canadian section of the site. So I thought today -- to kick off the new year -- I'd do a post that shows how the tabs in the other sections are doing, too. As of January 1, 2010, these are the 10 most-viewed tabs from each section, with view numbers included.

CANADIAN 358 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You 343 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love 296 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play 261 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On 224 - AFIC - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want 209 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band 206 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide 193 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light 186 - Harlequin - Innocence 185 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell	GIRLSCHOOL 162 - Yeah Right (guitar) 128 - Race With the Devil (guitar) 103 - Fox On the Run 73 - C'mon Let's Go 67 - Please Don't Touch 62 - Hit And Run 54 - Emergency 53 - Demolition Boys 49 - Don't Call It Love 45 - Screaming Blue Murder
VARIOUS 71 - Doobie Brothers - China Grove 68 - Bad Company - Shooting Star 61 - James Gang - Funk #49 59 - Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle 48 - Mountain - Mississippi Queen 44 - Cry Of Love - Peace Pipe 44 - Supertramp - Dreamer 43 - Stevie Nicks - Edge Of Seventeen 43 - Yes - I've Seen All Good People 41 - Supertramp - School	CHORDS 92 - Trooper - We're Here For A Good Time 83 - Max Webster - Diamonds Diamonds 46 - Bad Company - Ready For Love 46 - Fludd - Cousin Mary 44 - Michel Pagliaro - Lovin' You Ain't Easy 39 - The Band - The Weight 39 - Ian Thomas - Painted Ladies 38 - Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway 33 - Chilliwack - Baby Blue 29 - CSNY - Ohio 29 - Gowan - A Criminal Mind

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 6:07 PM EST
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Saturday, January 2, 2010

DECEMBER 2009 REVIEW
Topic: Website

Most-viewed tabs for the month of December 2009 (w/ view numbers):

27 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
20 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
18 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
18 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
17 - The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
16 - Harlequin - Innocence
14 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
14 - Max Webster - A Million Vacations
12 - Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
12 - Max Webster - Hangover (live)
12 - Trooper - Boys In the Bright White Sports Car

Total Tab Views For December: 798

By section: Canadian-512 Girlschool-83 Various-116 Chords-87

Most-viewed tabs overall (up to Dec. 31/09):

358 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
343 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
296 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
261 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
224 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
209 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
206 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
193 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
186 - Harlequin - Innocence
185 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell

Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month:
On the Loose, Hey Operator, Fox On the Run, Superstitious Feeling

*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.

Posted by planet/zerofret at 2:13 AM EST
Updated: Saturday, January 2, 2010 2:15 AM EST
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Friday, December 11, 2009

NEW LOOK
Topic: Website

If you visit the Canadian Tabs page of the site today, you'll notice a new look for that page. I thought it would be a good idea to start tightening things up a bit. The idea is to make the site more efficient, so the page has been adjusted to require a lot less scrolling, and to allow for more content visible on the screen at a time. When I first designed these pages, I didn't know much about coding (not that I know all that much now), so everything went down the middle of the page. But it doesn't have to be that way anymore. The page is still set up alphabetically by band name and artist surname, but now it's arranged into three columns.

The Canadian page was the first to get a make-over because it's the most visited page on the site, but all of the tab/chord pages will be changed to this more condensed format. I hope the new look appeals, and that you find the pages quicker and easier to navigate.

Also, a week or so ago, I added a page for Christmas/seasonal tabs, with a link to it from the Home page. The Christmas tabs (all 3 of them

) are all posted on their appropriate various pages on the main site, but it seemed like a good idea to also gather them together in one spot. That makes it easier for anyone who might come by looking for Christmas tabs; they won't have to search the whole site to see if there are any. That's a temporary page for December; the link to it will be removed after Christmas.

I think that covers all the site updates for now. If you notice any problems with the new formatting (broken links, anything), give me a shout. And, as always, thanks for visiting the site.

Posted by planet/zerofret at 4:26 PM EST
Updated: Friday, December 11, 2009 5:15 PM EST
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