Fret Filings - (Anne's Blog)

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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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

STEELY DAN
Topic: Riff-In-A-Jiff

"Any Major Dude Will Tell You" was the B-side of Steely Dan's most successful single, the #4 hit "Rikki Don't Lose That Number". While not officially released as a single itself, "Dude" also became well known and popular in its own right, and appears on many Dan best of/greatest hits compilation CDs.

The song originally appeared on the group's third album Pretzel Logic (1974). That album went platinum, climbed to #8 on the Billboard album chart, and was later (in 2003) included in Rolling Stone magazine's selection of the 500 greatest pop/rock albums of all time.

STEELY DAN - "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" (W. Becker/D. Fagen)

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/varriffs.txt

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx-Oq9GdN1E

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:37 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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Saturday, January 16, 2010

CHILLIWACK - "THERE'S SOMETHING I LIKE ABOUT THAT"
Topic: New Chords Postings

"There's Something I Like About That" was the second of three singles taken from Chilliwack's fourth album, Riding High (1974). (The other singles were "Crazy Talk" and "Come On Over".) While the song didn't enjoy the Top 10 success that "Crazy Talk" did, it broke into the Top 100, reaching #85 in Canada.

The album was primarily produced by Mike Flicker, but "Something I Like" was produced by Terry Jacks, of "Seasons In the Sun" fame, and Riding High was released on Jacks' label Goldfish Records.

While "There's Something I Like About That" has come to be considered one of Chilliwack's early classics, the song isn't included on either of the band's Greatest Hits records. It does, however, appear on the 2003 CD There and Back - Live, which is essentially a live Greatest Hits album.

The chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/chilliwack-theressomethingilike.txt

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na7O_fzfY8A

Posted by planet/zerofret at 1:20 AM EST
Updated: Saturday, January 16, 2010 1:24 AM 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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Monday, January 11, 2010

LEE AARON - "ONLY HUMAN"
Topic: New Tab Postings

Lee Aaron's 1987 self-titled album marked a change in direction for her, a departure from her heavy metal roots to a more pop-rock, radio friendly sound. The first single from the album -- the power ballad "Only Human" -- became one of her most successful singles.

As it turned out, this entire tab hinged on one individual note. When I first started working on it, I immediately thought the song was played in an alternate tuning. I wasn't positive, though, so it was off to view the video to see if I could find out from that. At first, it didn't seem to be much help, since so little of the guitar playing is shown. But I was able to focus in on one small thing. The video clearly shows that the last note of the opening phrase of the guitar solo is played on the eighth fret of the A string. The only way that note could be played in that spot is if the guitar was tuned down a half step. Case solved, alternate tuning confirmed. (And I was also reasonably convinced that that was correct due to the fact that other well-known Lee Aaron songs are played in Eb tuning.) The rest of the tab followed from that one note.

I also tried something for the first time with this tab. Re-tuning to Eb can be a bit of a hassle, so instead I imported the song into Audacity and raised the pitch by a semi-tone. Brought the song to my guitar's tuning instead of the other way around. It worked out great, saving me a lot of re-tuning time.

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/aaronlee-onlyhuman.txt

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:27 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, January 1, 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR
Topic: General

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing everyone a wonderful year and all the best in 2010.

Thanks for all your support for the site throughout 2009. Hope to see you here in the new year!

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Friday, January 1, 2010 2:35 AM EST
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Friday, December 25, 2009

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Topic: General

Posted by planet/zerofret at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Friday, December 25, 2009 1:53 PM EST
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