My Favorite Music Sites
Download free tab from these sites.
Free backing tracks and tablature for guitarists to jam with. No vocal or guitar tracks with tab to match. Loads of artists and styles. A great guitar resource. Constantly updated!!!
Go to this site then go to "tabs" 'cause thats where you'll find the largest collection of guitar music on the net! Just a few of the artists are listed. Browse through the artist index by selecting from the alphabet or use the search engine to look through over 40,000 songs, including thousands of non-OLGA files.
- Chord Book.com A Virtual Guitar & Chordbook, features a flash modelled guitar, over 1300 guitar chords and inversions. You can save chords and do all the normal stuff, like put on a capo go up and down the frets, drag and drop the finger markers to make your own guitar chords. Very cool.
- Project Guitar.com This is where you want to go to learn how to fix and/or fine tune your guitar.
- Chord Book.com
- Guitar Lesson World.com
- Chords in Open D Tuning
- Open D-tuning - The Minor Pentatonic Scale
- Basic Fingerpicking Patterns
- Mike and Marie’s Fingerstyle Guitar Home Page
- Tunings
- Free Licks.net
- Guitar Lesson World
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Online Guitar Tuner - Tune up your guitar before you begin!!
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Chord Decoder
Find chord name for a given chord fingering.
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Guitar Codex
Chord, Tab & Scales Directory & More!!
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Chord Generator
Shows the fingerings for a variety of chords.
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Scale Generator - Shows the major and minor scales on a fret board
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Guitar Chord Chart
Simple javascript chord chart, choose the chord and click set for the chord fingering to be displayed.
- Guitarist's Chord Dictionary
- Java Guitar Tool
- Javascript Scale & Chord Maker
- Chordfind - Guitar Chords
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How to Buy Your First Guitar By Dennis Kambury
Ever since rock 'n' roll became a household word, the guitar hero has ruled supreme. From Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry through Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, right up to Tom DeLonge and Mark Tremonti, it's the heroic axe-wielder that gets the attention. Now you've decided to join their ranks, and you need some help determining what to look for in a guitar. Well, you've come to the right place! This week, we'll go over some of the basic things you'll want to take into consideration to make the best possible choice...
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Guitar Tech Tips: Setting up your guitar By Dennis Kambury
You finally bought that guitar you've been eyeing for a long time. You open the case, gently remove it from its plush cradle, and hold it in your arms. A fresh pick in your fingers, you begin an elegant and complex arpeggio that ranges across the fret board. Suddenly, right in the middle of the run, the strings start buzzing. You check your technique, and it's fine. So what's the problem...
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Restringing Your Instrument
To ensure solid, non-slip tuning, make sure strings are properly secured at both ends of the tuning machine...
Guitar Tech Tips By Dennis Kambury
Wood Tone:- What does the type of wood have to do with the sound of a guitar?
There are a number of different materials used in the various parts of a guitar. This week, we'll look at some of the more popular woods found on acoustic and electric guitars, and the tonal qualities these woods lend to the overall sound. Before we get into specifics, though, I should note that any attempt to define the tone of a given wood is general at best. Different cuts of the same species, or even the same tree, will exhibit different characteristics based on the age of the tree, the grain, the moisture content, and how long the wood has been cut. Of course, the design and building of the guitar have a major impact on the tone no matter what wood is used! With that caveat in mind, here's your guide to guitar wood...
Click Here to Read and find out!
- "The Care and Feeding of your Acoustic Guitar
by Martin.
Your guitar is made of thin wood which is easily affected by temperature and humidity. This combination is the most important single part of your guitar's surroundings. Martin keeps the factory at a constant 45-55 percent humidity and 72-77 degrees Fahrenheit. If either humidity or temperature gets far away from these factory conditions, your guitar is in danger. A rapid change in temperature or exposure to cold can cause small cracks in the finish...
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The Guitar Swamp
Chicken Pickin' Rock Guitar Tablature and Instructions, Online Guitar Lessons, Online Singing Lessons, TAB, Guitar Swamp Home - Musictheory.net
- Active Guitar.com
- Guitar Noise : Lessons
- Guitar Noise : Songs for Intermediates
- Guitar Noise : Blues
- Tab Edit
- Access Rock
- ALL TABS Free Instrumental Music Tablature
- Guitar Tablature
- Miscellaneous Music For Guitar
- ezFolk.com
- Acoustic Guitar.com
- Slide Guitar
- Understanding Musical Notes and their Notation
- Johnny Winter
GUITAR TUTORIALS
Pentatonic, Arpeggios, Blues, exercises, scales, FREE BACKING TRACKS and much more!
By Patrick MacFarlane
Select from over 250 possibilities to play and display chords for the guitar. This is provided by Emedia as a small sample of what is included on the eMedia Guitar Method 1 & 2 CD-Roms available through us from Amazon
Shows scales in standard guitar tuning using a java fret board, pick the root note and scale for the options to be shown. This application demonstrates different scales for guitar players.
Use the javascript guitar to generate different chords and scales.
Choose guitar or piano chords to hear and see. Clear fingering diagrams, chordfinder & online guitar tuner! Links to take you to relevent pages.
Ricci Adams has developed an excellent site. You can pick a specific lesson, trainer, or utility from a pull down list.
Another excellent site for Guitar Gear, Guitar Lessons, Guitar Tabs, Basics, Software, Books, Videos, Articles and many, many links. Instructions - On-Line.Active Guitar.com
Welcome to our blues guitar page. This page includes beginner and intermediate lessons for blues guitar as well as links to guitar sites and more...
- TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass.
- The Ark
- The Beatles Web Ring
- The Internet Beatles Album
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Beatles stuff
- The Rock Site
- Guitarnotes.com
- Go to this site then go to "tabs" 'cause thats where you'll find the largest collection of guitar music on the net! Just a few of the artists are listed. Browse through the artist index by selecting from the alphabet or use the search engine to look through over 40,000 songs, including thousands of non-OLGA files.
- Classical Composers
- A huge database compiled by Jos Smeets, together with many links for individual composers.
- Classical Guitar Net
- Classical Music Pages
- Almost everything you may need about classical music.
- The Beethoven Reference Site
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Lyric download.com
- The Mozart Project
- Richard Wagner
- His life and work.
- Richard Wagner
- A more detailed analysis of this highly controversial racist, but sublime composer.
- Opera Glass
- Information on all operas.
- Big Bands Database
- Europe Jazz Network
- An excellent jazz site from Ravenna, active since 1987.
- Guitar Chord Generator
- Jazz Corner's Links
- A very well designed site.
- Jazz Web
- John Lennon Museum, Tokyo
- People of Jazz Index
- Bluegrass Lyrics
- The Carter Family
- Music Links
- A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
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International Music Archives
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Includes information on musical instruments of the world.
- The CHICO Musical Instruments Encyclopedia
- The Blue Flame Cafe
- Fred
- A History of Vinyl
- Sony Classical: Artists' Biographies and discography
- Bluegrass, the cradle of American country music. Great stuff.
- Bluegrass at its best.
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Superb music links from the Winnipeg Public Library.
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Compiled by Musica Antiqua at Iowa State University.
- Biographical encyclopedia of the great blues singers and singers of the blues.
- Federico is a young Italian singer from Vicenza, full of enthusiasm and with a bright future.
- 1850 - 1969.
