Question on Chord Fingering Boxes, A or B?

Hi all, ok we are working on the layout of the chord pages and a question came up on the design of the Chord Fingering Boxes. I originally thought that I would highlight the root notes of a chord in red. The root note of the A chord is A, the other notes are C# and E. The illustration above shows the chord fingering box for the Mandolin A chord. Some like the root notes highlighted in red and others didn't. I would love you to select your favorite, A or B. The numbers indicate which finger.

Please select your choice in the poll over on the top right corner, A or B, thank you

Mandolin Photo Chord Book, Initial Design Concept

Thanks everyone who made comments and voted on my mandolin chord pictures, Photo A's view was the clear winner but there was also a strong vote for using both photos in the book. Above is an image with my first pass for the page design of the new chord photo book. I would love any comments on it good or bad. I will reshoot the photos but they will be along this line. 

 The thought is to include a variety of ways to show chords, pictures, fret board, chord box, staff lines and TAB lines.  FPO means for position only, I don't have that image at the moment but that is where one would go.

Mandolin Moveable Arpeggio Scale for Any Key

Page from our Essential Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo book of our moveable arpeggio scale for any Mandolin Key. This chart allows you to use arpeggios for doing solos. This movable chart will work for any key as it can be moved up and down the fret board.

Songs for mandolin, (amazon affiliate link)

Essential Chords, Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele & Banjo Video

We have been working on videos for our books for YouTube, Facebook and the blog, here is our latest for our Essential Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele & Banjo book.

Banjo Chords with G Tunings from Our New Book, Essential Chords

Banjo Chords for G Tuning. A page from our new book Essential Chords, Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo. Banjo tunings usually come in one of two tunings, G or D. We include a fingering chart for both in the book that show the major, minor and 7 chords for the banjo. You can see all of our chord and music fingering charts at www.acousticmusictv.com.

Acoustic Music TV Gift Products Video

Video for our Acoustic Music TV Gift and Products Store. We have all kinds of cool items for the holidays using the designs and artwork from our Notebook Music Chords and Charts book.

Design include: Acoustic Music TV Designs, 3 Guitars, Mandolin Banjo violin, 3 Electric Guitars, Guitar 7 Major Chords, Mandolin 7 Major Chords, Ukulele 7 Major Chords, String Instruments-Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle/Violin, Ukulele, Retro Microphones, Singing with Microphones

Products include: t-shirts, v-neck t-shirt, long sleeve t-shirts, men and women, fitted t-shirts, toddler t-shirt, sweatshirt, boxes shorts, thong underwear, mouse pad, electric wall clock, journal, throw pillows, keepsake box, framed tile, mug, large mug, apron, Sigg water bottle, dog t-shirt, pet bowl, magnets, calendar, tote bag, messenger bag, gym bag, beach bag



You can see all the products at http://www.acousticmusictv.com/html/Clothing%20&%20Products.html

Great Holiday Gift Ideas from Acoustic Music TV

We have been busy on our new Acoustic Music TV.com website. Adding in all our chord and music charts, a Resource Page, a Marketing page on how to get your music videos found in YouTube and Google search, and a Clothing and Product Gift page for the holidays.

We have pulled together our most popular music designs with our most popular products for the holidays into one place. So if you are looking for a great gift for the music fan in your family we now offer a lot of great choices. Everything is produce by CafePress so the quality is great and they handle all the shipping.

Products include: t-shirts of all kinds, clocks, notebooks, aprons, bags, mugs, close to 50 different items for each design. We hope you enjoy them and have a great holiday.

Please visit our Acoustic Music TV Clothing and Product Gift Shop

Cool Ukuleke Site with Books and Videos

Hi, all, found this great ukulele site the morning. Helena's Ukulele Online Guide, with tons of reference books, and video to get you playing. The uke is a great little instrument and has really grown in popularity over the last few years. Great site to learn and get information, http://www.helenatangaroa.com/

The site has tab cords, printable chord charts, scales, music books and strings, and some great videos. Take a look. Also make sure you visit our new www.AcousticMusicTV.com site, we have all of our music charts up there now.

One of the books from the site, (amazon affiliate link)

Promoting Your Music Gigs Across the Web

I follow Joan Stewart and her Publicity Hound newsletter and blog on tips, trick and tools for free publicity. She mentioned this site for musicans in this week's newsletter.

Artistdata.com, it is a free service for musicians that automatically updates your show, newss or blog updates across MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and many more music related sites

A free ArtistData account gives you unlimited synchronization to all of their partner sites! You can post as many shows, blogs news, and status updates as you want and watch them magically appear across our network. It's a powerful platform that will save you an enormous amount of time. They support sites lit Artist Direct, Bandloop, eventful, Fan Bridge, Live Music Machine, Songkick, JamBase and many more.

As they say, "That's given them more time to write music, meet fans, and be creative. Which is why they're musicians, right?"

You can learn more about artistdata at http://www.artistdata.com/us/

And to follow Joan Stewart and learn more about PR, http://www.publicityhound.com/

 Music Marketing (amazon affiliate link)