New York, November 4, 1999 - eTonal Media, Inc. today announced the launch of WholeNote.com, the first full-service community website for guitarists. WholeNote™ is an on-line community that brings together guitarists of all interests and skill levels. The community provides guitarists with an unmatched variety of learning and authoring tools, access to extensive content, and enables members of the community to learn from each other by sharing their knowledge and ideas on all guitar-related topics.

Among the exciting new technology that WholeNote™ provides to guitarists is its LessonEngine software, which allows anyone to create an interactive lesson on-line and post it in WholeNote's Lesson Directory. All community members and visitors can learn to play guitar on-line by accessing posted lessons, which can be viewed in standard guitar tablature and played back using MIDI playback technology. To facilitate learning, the user can listen to any portion of any lesson at any speed. WholeNote™ members have already posted over 225 lessons in a broad variety of genres, including Rock, Blues, Jazz, Classical, Folk and even Flamenco, and in a wide range of skill levels.

In addition to perusing the WholeNote™ lesson archive, visitors to the site benefit from a complete range of learning tools, including the Groove Builder, which allows visitors to create accompaniment "jam" tracks with which to play along, interactive ear training exercises, music theory charts, and comprehensive databases of chords, scales and arpeggios. Visitors can search for tablature from the Online Guitar Archive (OLGA), or browse WholeNote's Resource Directory, which includes reviews of equipment, recordings, books, and videos, as well as a comprehensive list of manufacturers, retailers, publishers, and websites of interest to the guitarist. WholeNote also provides community services such as homepage building, a chat room, and multimedia-enabled discussion forums.

"After surveying the current on-line offerings for guitarists, we realized that there is a vast number of players who want to share what they know, without a good forum for this type of information," said eTonal Media's CEO Christopher Sung. "WholeNote™ is like a living, interactive musical instruction book, that gets re-written everyday by guitarists around the world."

About eTonal Media, Inc.

Since it was founded in 1999, eTonal Media, Inc. has focused on the development of the website WholeNote.com - The On-Line Guitar Community. WholeNote™, the first full-service community website for guitarists, is an on-line community that seeks to bring together guitarists of all interests and skill levels. The community provides guitarists with a broad variety of learning and authoring tools, access to extensive content including lessons and resource reviews, and enables members of the community to share their knowledge and ideas on all guitar-related topics through discussion forums and chat rooms. Among the exciting new technology that WholeNote™ provides to guitarists is its LessonEngine software, which allows anyone to create an interactive lesson on-line and post it in WholeNote's Lesson Directory, where others can view it in guitar tablature and listen to it in MIDI playback. Further details can be obtained at the website www.wholenote.com.

"WholeNote" is a trademark of eTonal Media, Inc.

For further information please contact:

Jim Burger
eTonal Media, Inc.
biz@etonal.com