Jazz Guitar: Solos, Licks, Lessons, and Links
Here you can find jazz transcriptions, sheet music, and links to MP3 downloads. There are lessons for aspiring jazz musicians, fingerings for scales, and more. Guitarists like Metheny, Montgomery, and Scofield are featured in the links to musicians' pages; there are also other quality links relating to jazz guitar. The site is updated frequently with new material. http://users.pandora.be/dirk.laukens1/index.html

Net Music School
Here's an innovative approach to music education, using WWW and Macromedia Flash technology. The site offers web-based beginner guitar and piano lessons and may expand to include other instruments. The lessons use streaming animation to show proper hand position and movement, and the student can click on sound files to hear how each note and chord should sound. An animated stick figure guides students through the lessons, which start with the basics. First-time visitors are invited to take a free guitar or piano lesson; to get more lessons, you can subscribe at a reasonable price. Once you get your password, you have unlimited access to the lessons for twelve months and can learn at your own pace. The site also provides helpful free sections such as a guitar chord database, demonstration of how to tune a guitar, music notation and tablature, and a music teacher database. http://www.NetMusicSchool.com

New Consonant Music
This site has biographies of contemporary composers and performers, MIDI files, and CDs and music scores to buy. For composers, there is a section on how to get music published. In addition, there are links to essays on new consonant and postmodern music, composers' societies, music centers, and other WWW resources. http://www.avk.org/ncm/index.html

The Giant Harmonica Hymnbook
This site has hundreds of hymns tabulated for the diatonic scale harmonica with ten free online lessons for the beginner. Harmonica expert Jack Earl gives some folksy down-home advice on music and harmonica playing, and there are even crossword puzzles and stories based on the hymns. In addition, you can find harmonica tutorial software, harmonicas to buy, and more.


HomeRecording.com
HomeRecording.com is a great source of information for anyone interested in home recording and mixing. Here you can learn how to use 4-tracks, 8-tracks, effects, compressors, analog, digital, and more. The tutorials and FAQs include basic MIDI and RealAudio; how to make your own audio equipment and instruments; and how to master and burn your own CDs. There is a lot of help for beginners, including a recording glossary. For those projects where you want to use a professional studio, you can learn here how to plan your recording session so you save money. Users can join the Mixmasters mailing list or BBS forums here to swap recording and mixing tips. The site also has reviews of recording equipment and programs, and links to free software.
http://homerecording.com

Music Notes: An Interactive Online Musical Experience
This web page is designed to teach people about music using the Internet style of learning. In the music theory section, students can learn about note reading, intervals, scales, chords, and other useful information. A music history section spans the Medieval Era through the 20th century. Other sections introduce musical instruments, musical careers; and the styles of music from Rock to Bach. Games and crossword puzzles provide a way to test you musical knowledge while having fun. The intervals test takes advantage of Web technology for ear training, a concept which could be expanded further. The website also has a music glossary, a message board, and a collection of music links.
http://library.advanced.org/15413

The Mozart Experience
This website opens with a quote from George Bernard Shaw, who described Mozart's work as "The only music yet written that would not sound out of place in the mouth of God." The site has biographical information, pictures, essays on Mozart's symphonies and other works, and best of all, many MIDI and WAV files so visitors can hear the music of Mozart and other composers. Mozart fans can find opera notes, scores and librettos, and sources for books and CDs. There are letters and other writings by Mozart, and links to biographical information about many other composers. A section about the movie Amadeus has photographs and information about the production, cast and crew.
http://www.geocities.com/~wolfiemozart/index.html

Folkbook: An Online Acoustic Music Establishment
FolkBook has everything related to folk music for fans, performers, and songwriters. Folk fans will be happy to find artist biographies, discographies, pictures, sound bytes, lyrics, guitar tablature, tour schedules, record labels, online record stores, newsgroups, and electronic mailing lists. Performers can find folk friendly clubs, record distributors, radio stations and programs, and publications. This is also a good place to look for folk festivals, house concerts, and broadcasts on radio, television, or the Internet.


Peeps Republic Black History Month Interview Series
In honor of Black History Month, Peeps Republic presents exclusive interviews with artists like Davina, Goodie Mob, Mase, Next, Puff Daddy, Tony Rich, and Wu-Tang Clan. Peeps correspondent Karl Carter talks with some of the hottest artists in urban music to find out how they became successful, what their influences were, and what Black History Month means to them. These interviews reveal the people who are defining hip hop culture as real people who experience doubt, anger, fear, and love just like everyone else. Here the artists share their personal stories, and talk about spirituality, the trend toward materialism in hip hop, how they see their responsibility to young people and to their art, why positive images in hip hop don't get as much publicity as negative images, and important issues facing black people today. The site will also feature live chats with artists.
http://www.peeps.com/bhm

The Jazz Clearinghouse
The Jazz Clearinghouse has everything for jazz fans, students, educators, and musicians. Over 6,000 jazz links here cover jazz artists and groups in alphabetical order; jazz education; jazz festivals; concerts; reviews; books; videos; a CD store (including bargains under $6); jazz art and photographs; jazz on radio and TV; sound clips and online broadcasts; record labels; and jazz websites. Also check out The Swing Thing newsletter, and the list of music newsgroups and mailing lists.
http://www.all-jazz.com

The Red Hot Jazz Archive
The Red Hot Jazz Archive is a comprehensive website devoted to jazz before 1930, designed to please everyone from the jazz enthusiast to the casual music lover. Users can hear many complete recordings from the early years of jazz, and read hundreds of biographies of artists and bands from this era. The site includes famous performers such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton, plus dozens of lesser known talents such as King Oliver, Mezz Mezzerow, and Miff Mole. For the performers listed, the site provides complete discographies along with recordings and hyperlinked biographies. All songs are full length and available as streaming RealAudio 3 files, to avoid long download times. Songs, artists and titles are all fully cross-referenced.


Goldmine Online
If you are searching for a rare music recording, have records or CDs to sell, or have an interest in independent labels, try Goldmine Online's collectible music marketplace. Goldmine has a classified ads section where collectors, dealers and retailers buy and sell music recordings and memorabilia. You can use the site's search engine to pick from broad classifications such as '60s For Sale or 45s Wanted, genres such as Jazz or Punk, or specific artists. Serious collectors will be interested in the collectible music show listings. But Goldmine has much more to offer, as a magazine with articles on music styles and trends in music collecting, and reviews of indie labels. For instance, did you know that Robert Mitchum recorded a calypso album?


Delta Snake Blues News
Lovers of blues music will enjoy this zine, which has reviews of current blues artists and their music, editorials, and articles on blues history. Delta Snake Blues News began as a paper publication, and has been online for a few years now. Look here for links to blues sites all over the Web. A special feature is a section on Women in the Blues, which has articles and photos covering both contemporary female blues artists and artists of the past.


The Duke Ellington Society
Duke Ellington's approximately 1,500 compositions encompass all moods and fit into all forms, from three-minute pop songs to hour-long symphonies. He used instrumental groupings from solo piano to full symphonic orchestra, but wrote most of his music for the 16-piece orchestra which he led for 50 years. There are nearly 300 CDs of Ellington's music available all over the world. This beautifully designed Duke Ellington appreciation site, hosted by The Duke Ellington Society of New York, has biographical notes, articles about Ellington's music, audio files, and a study section called "Sing A Song". There are articles about famous artists who performed with Ellington including Jimmy Rushing, The Mills Brothers, Ethel Waters, and more; also the story of his nearly invisible songwriting partner, Billy Strayhorn. In addition to this website, The Duke Ellington Society has meetings, concerts, a monthly newsletter, an Internet discussion group, and tape archives.


Jazz, Roots, Rhythms
This web page celebrates jazz, blues, gospel and World Music, and covers the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. It offers CD reviews, Artists In the Spotlight features, and performance schedules of international and local musicians. There are feature stories (currently on the Bay Area Blues Society), music and arts news (CyberBeat), and articles on jazz culture (Bopnicity). Visitors to the page can send comments, questions, and reviews to Through the Grape Vine, or participate in a monthly music quiz. Artists can send news of upcoming gigs. There are listings of related books, album and CD releases, free jazz music events and jam sessions, and opportunities for aspiring musicians. There are also links to other jazz pages and discographies. Coming soon: more jazz history and artists' biographies.


The Piano Education Page
The Piano Education Page is a one-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano. Here you can get tips on learning to play the piano including getting the right kind of lessons and teacher for you (teacher interview checklist included); piano teaching software (with demos and reviews); buying and caring for a piano; studio etiquette; and a musical reference shelf. Find out about upcoming competitions, and read a new interview with a noteworthy artist/educator every month. There is a special page for kids, with a "Meet the Composer" section that makes Chopin seem like an old friend. There are also sections to help piano teachers improve their classes. Check out the good selection of piano and music-related links, including newsgroups, mailing lists, and FAQs. The page is updated biweekly. The graphics are clever: "Play Middle C to go to the next link."
http://www.unm.edu/~loritaf/pnoedmn.html

Interesting Places for Musicians and Music Lovers
This website is a large, varied and well-researched collection of music links. Many styles of music are represented, including classical, rock, folk, filk, barbershop, and more. There are links here for music newsgroups, college and university resources, sheet music and lyrics databases, and audio samples online. Find where to buy instructional books and videos, music teaching software, and musical instruments from bagpipes to ocarinas. Fans can find homepages of various artists and groups, album ratings and reviews, retailers of CDs and cassettes, MTV schedules, and concert information. Professionals will find resources for songwriters and performers, plus record company home pages and music industry sites. For those interested in computer music or sound engineering, there are technical sites, reviews of recording and editing software and hardware, and wholesalers of recording studio supplies.


Classical Net
Whether you are new to the world of classical music or an experienced listener, Classical Net has something for you. The world of classical music spans nearly 10 centuries, and encompasses a multitude of styles, forms, and purposes. The Classical Net website offers a comprehensive collection of information and news on classical music, including articles, recommended recordings, and individual pages for over 260 composers and their music. The discussion of musical time periods, composers and their works is a music history course in itself. There is a basic repertoire list for those who want to begin a classical music collection, plus CD reviews and a CD buying guide for those who want to expand their musical experience. The recommended CD lists contain references to over 1,850 CDs, and are cross-referenced back to the basic repertoire list. There is information on labels and distributors, mail order sources, collecting methodologies, composer societies, critical publications and other topics. There are links for mailing lists, newsgroups, and over 1,800 other classical music web sites.
http://www.classical.net/

Digital Tradition Folk Song Server
The Digital Tradition is a vast resource containing words and music to thousands of folksongs. Its full-text search program allows users to extract songs by entering one word (such as all songs with the name Mary or the word green in them), or by title or name of composer. Child ballads can be searched by number. Songs are constantly being added to this database. Once you've found the song you're looking for, you can listen to the tune, print out the words, and download the score in one of several software versions.


The Guitar Page
This beautifully designed, well-written site has everything for the guitar player. The page includes reviews of guitars on the market, live chat with other guitarists, and tips on guitar building provided by a professional guitar maker. There is a chord of the week with fingering chart, sound sample, and demonstration of how to use the chord in progressions. There are also links to songs (with words and chords) and a jazz guitar magazine. Coming soon: a free online guitar lesson.
http://www.guitar.net/

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
Visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - online! Visit exhibits that rock with video, fashion and sound. See photos and Quicktime VR of the Rock Hall. You can search the database by artist and song title to find information on famous inductees and their top hits, plus sound and video clips. Read press releases and other news, and look through the calendar of latest rock events. At rockhall.com LIVE! see archived coverage of major events. Participate in forums and webchat. Become a member and get special benefits like advance notice of rock events. Visitors to this site can also shop for Rockhall merchandise, win prizes, and vote for the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".


Musi-Cal TM
Musi-Cal is an online calendar of concerts, festivals, gigs and other musical events in Northern America and around the world. The many categories of music listed include classical, bluegrass, new age, early music, opera, reggae, rap, Cajun, Jewish, klezmer, rave, slack key, Hawaiian, roots, ska, and a cappella. Other performance listings include storytelling, poetry, and spoken word. You can search the database by performer, conductor, date, geographical location, or type of music. Performing groups can submit concert itineraries and edit their entries by email. You can also buy CDs of your favorite music through Musi-Cal.


RockWeb Interactive
The goal of this website is "to allow the best in people to come through the web to affect people with their words, art and music." The site features RealAudio interviews with musicians (currently: Save the Earth interview with Santana and Jeff Beck), artwork from rock n' roll related artists and live concert videography. The House of Boo online magazine has interviews, discussions, reviews, and news, and fans can connect with each other through "From the Hip" live chat. Find concert and music festival information, and features such as the Jerry Garcia tribute and the Grammy Award poll. There are extensive multimedia home sites for signed and unsigned bands, plus other music links. The site has been awarded a green light for children.
http://www.rockweb.com

Pollstar - The Concert Hotwire
This site includes covers popular music in such categories as Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country. Fans can find information on musicians, groups, tour dates, gossip, and a featured Artist of the Week. Search a database by artist, venue, or city.
http://www.pollstar.com/

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