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Cybers Music Music ramblings and reviews from a couple of music junkies. Great blog with music news and intuitive, make-sense categorization. Search for articles, artists, guitar tabs, song lyrics, and choose from their own music selection in their store. |
Guitar Jam Great blog with artist interviews, reviews, with an emphasis on guitar technology. This blog lists tons of links to guitar manufacturers, artists, other blogs, and guitar shows and events. Cool feature: Guitar riff of the day. |
Strat-O-Blogster Guitar Blog Hopping blog about all things Strat, with the occasional intrusion of Gibson and other floaters. In their own words, "World's Most Ridiculous Guitar Blog!" Tons of information and a cool feature: Display of running Ebay auctions of guitars, amps, etc. |
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String Theory Media Great blog with relevant and intelligent comments on music and artists, or in their own words, "String Theory Media develops documentary and feature content about music and music-making for traditional and new media." |
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Homeschool World Lots of good articles about home schooling, plus access to the latest products, groups, and events, a forum/experts area, and much, much more! |
InTune WorkshopLive has chosen InTune Monthly as a key marketing partner in youth education and content development. In Tune Monthly is the only magazine written exclusively for music making students in grades 7 - 12 and their teachers. Used by teachers as an in-classroom text, the magazine focuses on enriching and broadening the traditional music curriculum in middle and high schools and appeals to the independent player as well. |
Recreational Music Making (RMM) NAMM, the largest music products trade show in the world, promotes music in many ways. For anyone who wants to be involved in music making, NAMM's Web site "Recreational Music Making" is a great resource, introducing a variety of teaching programs online and offline. Read a summary about their programs here, or go directly to the RMM Web site. |
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MENC WorkshopLive is a proud member of the National Association for Music Education - "Bringing Music to Life!" |
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| Guitar & More | ||
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Electric Guitar Review Find reviews, quick equipment overviews and commentary, historic info about classic instruments, musicians, guitar makers, and more. Although focused on electric axes, acoustic guitars are discussed too. |
Harmony Central Highly popular site for all things music. Valuable information from news and product reviews, to classified ads and chat rooms. This all-in-one Web site gives musicians benefits not available through traditional physical retail channels and provides extensive product information. |
Ultimate Guitar Huge tab archive with over 200,000 guitar tabs, bass tabs, chords and guitar pro tabs. Great selection of reviews, interviews, lessons and forum. Some tabs require software download. |
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Acoustic Guitar Leading offline and online guitar magazine for acoustic lovers and experts. Interviews, reviews, sheet music, song transcriptions, and expert advice help readers become smarter buyers and owners of acoustic guitars and related gear. |
Guitar World Online version of Guitar World Magazine, which debuted in 1980. Since then, they have covered most of all influential guitarists: David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Joe Satriani, Eric Clapton, Steve Vai, Eddie Van Halen- you name it. Learn about new equipment, read gear reviews, or take an audio lesson. |
GuitarSite Extensive resource for guitarists and guitar lovers, with free subscription to "Guitar News Weekly", their e-zine. |
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Relix Magazine Relix Magazine has joined the Workshop family as a key marketing partner and the two entities are presently helping produce a free kids camp for music students in Manhattan during the Green Apple Earth Day Festival in April 2006. Today, Relix is the only music magazine of its kind. Having weathered 28 years of musical history, Relix has firmly established itself as a serious music magazine, "dedicated" to not only entertaining its readership, but also providing a true community for lovers of "music for the mind." |
Vintage Guitar Articles to inform and entertain, to save you money, with information and histories of the instruments and the people and companies that built them, great interviews with the top players of today and yesterday and the instruments they use, the secret repair tips of the experts, pricing info, and much more! The magazine also has a section with 1,000s of items for sale. |
Making Music Magazine Making Music is a lifestyle magazine and interactive website offering instruction, information, and inspiration for recreational music makers. The magazine features stories about amateur musicians and groups; instructional articles on music theory, instrument maintenance, and techniques for beginner and step-up musicians; and health advice, musical destinations, new gear, and much more. The website adds an online forum, a calendar of music making events, exclusive columns, The Backbeat Blog, and more. Join the recreational music making community today! Check us out at www.makingmusicmag.com. |
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Emusicinstitute.com MusicInstitute, Inc focuses on Music-related Internet services and advanced Web site and graphic development. They have graciously provided the online metronome that is available in the cool tools section of our site. |
Sheet Music Direct WorkshopLive has chosen Sheet Music Direct to provide its subscribers with one of the best sheet music technology downloads available. Sheet Music Direct is a digital download site for sheet music. Here, musicians can view sheet music on screen, interact with it, then buy and print it out for later use. |
Luthiers Automation Luthiers Automation is a supplier of 3D models of instruments such as Guitars, Mandolins, and Violins. Their products and engineering services enjoy the best of both worlds - a professional, production grade design at a modest price. |
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Academic Superstore Academic Superstore has consistently remained the fastest-growing, education-focused North American retailer since 1998. Exclusively committed to education customers, Academic Superstore offers incredible savings on WorkshopLive site licensing along with thousands of other software and hardware products. |
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Jambands "Get your groove on-line." Music news, polls, new bands feature, show reviews, and articles by different writers. They also have a classified section, tape trades, and their "homegrown store". |
Nextcat The place where the next "cat" is discovered. Networking community for the entertainment industry, for artists and industry reps alike. Showcase your talents using audio and video files. For musicians, actors, writers, magicians, comedians, all types of entertainers. |
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Babbalu "The Latino American Lifestyle Authority." Bi-lingual, one-stop Web site with a variety of services and products for the Latino and non-Latino crossover population. Emphasis on community and social networking, with blog, Bfriends-Amigos, Bmail-Correo. |
LiveDigital Livedigital is a free digital community that allows you to manage your entire digital lifestyle - from uploading photo and video albums, meeting friends, or just keeping a daily journal, all in one place. Check out WorkshopLive's page here. |
MySpace Largest social networking site on the planet. The place to showcase yourself, but also a popular place for bands and musicians to promote themselves and to network. Check out WorkshopLive's profile at MySpace. |
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Tagworld "The best place to meet new people, build a great website and connect with friends." Discover new music, watch cool videos, video chat with friends, or win free stuff. |
VidiLife Similar to MySpace, VidiLife is a free social networking site that also provides a free video and photo hosting service allowing users to view, upload, and share videos and photos. |
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blip.tv The place to upload your show or podcast. They help you promote your show by connecting you with your advertiser of choice. Promising shows are introduced to media buyers directly. Supports all video formats, including Flash 8, Quicktime, DivX, 3gp. |
Google Video The world's first open online video marketplace, where you can search for, watch and even buy an ever-growing collection of TV shows, movies, music videos, documentaries, personal productions and more. Google owns YouTube. |
Guba An entertainment destination to download, share and buy user-generated content and hundreds of movies and TV shows. GUBA protects content owners using the latest DRM solutions and a proprietary, MPAA-approved filtering technology named "Johnny." |
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ifilm Video network that serves user-generated and professional video content. Ifilm's extensive library includes movie clips, music videos, short films, TV clips, video game trailers, action sports and its popular 'viral videos' collection. Owned by Viacom (MTV, VH1, Comedy Central). |
Metacafe "Serving the world's best videos." Video broadcaster that uses their VideoRank technology that mines the collective wisdom of its audience to filter and surface the most entertaining videos, a great place to both watch and distribute high quality video content. |
Motionbox Another place to upload, organize, enhance and share your videos. |
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Revver A video-sharing platform built the way the Internet really works. Supports the free and unlimited sharing of media. Their technology tracks and monetizes videos as they spread virally across the Web. Connects video makers and sharers with sponsors in a free and open marketplace that rewards them for doing what they do best. |
Yahoo! Video Find millions of videos from across the Web, and post your own. Search and play videos directly from Yahoo! Video, save them to their 'favorites' page, subscribe to channels for video sources, and embed videos on their web pages and blog posts. Doesn't work for Linux, OS X, or Firefox users. |
YouTube YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. Share, comment on and view videos. Everything from homemade recordings to current events, unusual and quirky stuff, this site offers something for everyone. A good resource for hard-to-find videos, or footage that is officially banned from TV networks. |