tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81783212011-04-21T22:25:00.181+02:00I have created this blog to serve as a "What's New" section for my Guitar site. On the site you will find lessons on blues guitar, chord progressions, music theory applied to guitar, a "book store" and much more. Go to <a href="http://www.torvund.net/guitar">http://www.torvund.net/guitar</a>Olav Torvundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635837369962270879noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178321.post-20628105490867218172006-12-13T23:24:00.000+01:002006-12-13T23:31:53.945+01:00

My website is a hobby, not something I do as a job. Which means that I can work on it whenever time permit. It does not always do.I have been working a lot "behind the scene". I have built a database to support the site, and most of the information have been entered into the site. But there is still work to be done before I can get it on the net. And for technical reasons this cannot be done

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As mentioned in an earlier posting, I will redesign my website to make it more userfriendly and more easy for me to update. A website that is not updated tend not to be very userfriendly.As will be very obvious from my questions, webtechnology and databases are not my field of expertise. Just as in music, too many of those who are trying to explain tend to take some basic knowledge for granted,

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Dear guitar friends.In the weeks or rather months to come, I will redesign my website.I never really planned to make to make a large website. But I got positive response for the historic lessons published some time back in the 80s. I put these and some other materiale at my site at University of Oslo. Then one day a friend told me that my guitar pages was among the most visited webpages at the

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I have opened another blog for questions and comments at http://olavsguitarq.blogspot.com/. I will forward questions and comments sent to me by e-mail to this blog. The question asked or the comment may be relevant for more than one person. The blog you are looking at now will be for news, my own comments and views, etc. But you are of course welcome to comment.But in the transition period the

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Your information is terrific. Sometimes I feel it will take the rest of my days to just learn what you have already forgot. It seems I am often reading and re-reading your pages and information. Many thanks for having this on line. Your efforts are appreciated sincerely.On the we page at http://www.torvund.net/guitar/chords/Minor.asp , in the second paragraph you commentFor this reason I will

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Dear Olav,I just found your site this evening and it's great. I've been playingfor many years but only at home or occasionally jamming with otherplayers. I'd like to get tracks of popular songs minus the guitar partso I can perform alone at small clubs like I see many other guitaristsdo. Can you direct me to a site that would have backing tracksfor popular rock ( 70's to 80's) or rock/blues...

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I do not play guitar but I am enjoying your web site on theory. Toanswer your question about the use of the word perfect the way I learnedit was this: if the upper note of an interval is found in the majorscale built on the lower note- it is known as a diatonic interval (C-Gdiatonic 5th C-Ab not diatonic 6th). If the prime, fourth fifth oroctave are diatonic they are called perfect intervals. I

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At 04:02 28.07.2005, you wrote:>I'm getting Page Cannot be found error on many of the links from the main>page.>>http://www.torvund.net/guitar/Blues%20Guitar/index.asp#Part%201>>http://www.torvund.net/guitar/Blues%20Guitar/12_bar_in_E-introduction.asp>>I took out the space character, "%20" and made it to the page.I do not know how you got to that "main page". You should not have been there ...I

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At 15:40 16.08.2005, you wrote:>Dude, there are no such things as sus2 chords. The>tension exists in the 4th replacing the 3rd. A sus2>chord is a sus4 (or simply sus) chord in 1st>inversion. Accordging to you a Csus2 is CDG, but a>Gsus is GCD. You may as well call an Am (ACE) a C6>without the 5th - CE_A.If one should apply correct theory strictly, there are no such thing as a 5-chord either. The

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At 21:39 26.07.2005, you wrote:>Olav,>Greetings from Seattle, Washington, USA.>>I am confused by your description of open G tuning.>First you say "tune the high E string to E". Then you give the resultant >tuning as D-G-D-G-B-G. Then you say the "The chord has the voicing >5-1-5-1-3-5 ". I believe the last to be correct resulting from tuning the >E string to D.>>This from the page: http://

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>There appears to be a problem on this page of your site.>> On page http://www.torvund.net/guitar/Links/Guitar%20manufacturers.asp> when you click on "Ovation",> the link to http://www.kamanmusic.com/ovation/> gives the error: Not found.>>As recommended by the Robot Guidelines, this email is to explain>our robot's visit to your site, and to let you know about one of>the problems we found. We

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>Hey, Olav!>>Nice pages, thanks much!>>I had to find a G5 powerchord near the lower frets>and your page at http://www.torvund.net/guitar/chords/G5.asp>showed me how.>>Since you ask for feedback, how about differntiating the>root from the rest by showing it with a red circle instead>of black? Just a thought...>>Many thanks again,It may be a good idea. The problem is that I will have to redraw all

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>Hi Olav, Nice work on the guitar website. I am a newbie to guitars>...your site helps. I have a question on scales though, wonder if you>can help me. Ionian is a whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half scale,>correct? An A Ionian starts on 6th string, 5th fret, correct? An A>Dorian would still start with 6th string, 5th fret, am I correct? I>found a site (cyberfret) that tells me otherwise ...

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This is something from my mailbox:If you should happen to be in Northern Italy 16-18 september, the Django Festival should be worth visiting. Take a look at http://www.djangoreinhardt.it/eng/home.htm for more information.

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One og my visitors asked about music for bands, and not just for one instrument (guitar).There are several books with full band score (transcriptions of all instruments). I have made a new page with these books at http://www.torvund.net/guitar/BookLists/Lists/Band_Playing.asp

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Amazon has recently opened a Musical Instrument section. Amazon is more and more becomming a portal rather than a retailer, and the orders will be handled by Musician's Friend and some other music stores. You will see that my future links more often will point to Amazon, rather than to Musician's Friend. The reason is quite simply that Amazon has a system for making links that are simpler and

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Amazon has recently opened a Musical Instrument section. Amazon is more and more becomming a portal rather than a retailer, and the orders will be handled by Musician's Friend and some other music stores. You will see that my future links more often will point to Amazon, rather than to Musician's Friend. The reason is quite simply that Amazon has a system for making links that are simpler and

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I have changed the "New" part of the book menus. Now you will find a link to a "What's New" page for the category you are looking at. The general "New Books" page is stil there (but it is too long ,..). I am removing the "New" section on the individual pages, to make them shorter and easier to navigate. See for instancehttp://www.torvund.net/guitar/BookLists/Lists/New_Blues.asp

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The Book Section has been updated with new releases. Go to http://www.torvund.net/guitar/BookLists/newbooks.asp for a list of new guitar books and videos.

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I have created this blog as a "What's new" supplement to my guitar web site. The new features to report today is the creation of this blog, and that I have changed layout on my site. If you do not know the site, or have not visited for a long time, make a visit. Go to http://www.torvund.net/guitar/

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