New York, June 1, 2000 - eTonal Media, Inc. today announced the launch of ActiveBass.com (www.activebass.com), the first full-service community website for bass guitarists. ActiveBass is a musician portal that aims to bring together bassists of all interests and skill levels. The website offers an unmatched variety of learning and authoring tools, interviews with leading bass guitarists, and access to extensive content about artists, equipment, and manufacturers. In addition, ActiveBass enables visitors to learn from each other by sharing their knowledge on all bass-guitar-related topics and showing each other how to play their favorite licks and bass lines. The ActiveBass website is a fitting complement to eTonal's first website, WholeNote - The On-Line Guitar Community, which has won numerous awards for its groundbreaking technology and unique approach to community.

Among the revolutionary technology that ActiveBass provides to guitarists is its Line Builder software, which allows anyone to point and click to create an interactive bass lesson on-line and post it in the ActiveBass Lesson Directory. All community members and visitors can learn to play bass guitar on-line by accessing posted lessons, which can be viewed in standard bass guitar tablature and played back using MIDI technology. To facilitate learning, the user can listen to any portion of any lesson at any speed. ActiveBass already features one of the largest on-line catalogs of bass lessons in a broad variety of genres, and has developed strategic content partnerships with such bass portals as bass101.com, bassically.net, and basslicks.com.

Visitors to the site also benefit from a complete range of learning tools, including the Track Builder, which enables users to create accompaniment "jam" tracks with which to play along, interactive ear training and visual exercises, and comprehensive databases of scales and arpeggios. Visitors can search for tablature from the Bass Online Guitar Archive (OLGA), browse equipment reviews, and obtain information on all existing resources of interest to the bass guitarist. ActiveBass also provides community services such as homepage building, a chat room, and multimedia-enabled discussion forums.

"We realize that bass players have felt like a forgotten entity on the Internet," said eTonal Media's CEO Christopher Sung. "ActiveBass provides the perfect setting for bassists, publishers, manufacturers, and distributors to take advantage of the medium, collectively creating the largest single body of knowledge for the instrument, and being re-written everyday by players around the world."

About eTonal Media, Inc.

eTonal Media, Inc. is a leading developer and operator of community, informational and educational websites for musicians. eTonal's first website was the award-winning WholeNote.com - The On-Line Guitar Community, which is now joined by ActiveBass - The On-Line Bass Community. WholeNote™ and ActiveBass represent the first full-service community websites for their respective audiences, bringing together musicians of all interests and skill levels. At eTonal's websites, visitors can select from vast libraries of interactive music lessons, jam along with tracks that they design for their own practice purposes, review extensive databases of information on musical equipment and publications, and share their knowledge and ideas on all related topics. eTonal's unique technology enables musicians to communicate with each other musically as well as verbally, by showing each other how to play their favorite pieces and licks. No other website can match this capability. Further details can be obtained at the websites www.wholenote.com and www.activebass.com.

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

For further information please contact:

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