What is Fingertips?
Fingertips is a web site devoted to quality free and legal music online. But it is not a comprehensive guide; rather, it is my personal, informed, idiosyncratic effort to point you in the direction of intelligent music that is available online legally and for free. What I call intelligent music comes in a variety of guises, featuring a wide array of sounds and approaches–the common factor is that it is all music that has been created and produced with heart, craft, and spirit. For a fuller description of what Fingertips is and why it is how it is, see the site introduction. For a clear sense of the site’s guiding principles, you might check out the “Rules of Thumb” page. 2. Why the name Fingertips? “Fingertips” is the name of a song by They Might Be Giants which is actually an accumulation of about three dozen partial songs. I liked the subtle but sure imagery in that case, and it seems appropriate here as well. I also like the way it relates to the image of someone browsing through a
