CS403 Section 3, Assignment 4A, Casey Benner

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Final Project Details

Theme

The theme of my web presentation project will be guitar tablature (tabs) tutorial. Id like to demonstrate to a beginning guitar player how to read tabs, well enough to enable them to read any tabs to any songs they want to learn. Tabs much easier to read for people that struggle with reading music, because instead of reading notes and scales, you can view the pattern in number form. I personally struggle with reading music so much that it bothers me to the point that playing the song is no longer enjoyable to me. Tabs have helped me to learn many songs in an efficient way.
In order to make my web presentation project unique, Im going to personalize it by actually demonstrating with my own guitar how to use tabs to play a song. I hope to chose two songs of different genres in order to make my website more interesting to a broader scope of people. The first song will be tabs for the lead guitar, and the second tab will be for rhythm guitar. By demonstrating both lead and rhythm guitar, different levels of difficulty of tabs will be demonstrated. This will also demonstrate that tabs are not only for a certain genre of music, any guitarist with any taste in music can utilize tabs.

Goals

My goal for this website is to enable any guitarist to read tabs, which can open up musical doors for people, such as myself, who struggle with reading traditional music sheets. By choosing two different genres to demonstrate, I hope to make my website more appealing to many guitarist with different tastes in music. The graphics on my webpage will be shots of my own hand and guitar demonstrating the different finger positions demonstrated by the tabs that I will also create myself. The tabs will probably be produced on my computer, where I can create my own art to use for the website. I wont need to update the site once its done, because the tutorial will just be a demonstration of how to read tabs. There wont be a place for viewers to request tabs for other songs, which is why it wont be necessary to update once its finished. It wont cost me any money to make, and there is no goal to make money.

Navigational Scheme

The navigational scheme for my project will be easy to navigate, because I'm hoping to make a tutorial. Having the navigational scheme be exploratory will allow the viewers to go to different examples at any time, which will be helpful when trying to learn and understand how to read and use tabs. By having the categories home, parts of a guitar, strings and frets, reading notes in tabs, and reading chords in tabs, anyone learning how to read tabs can jump to different bits of information with relative ease.