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Guitar Lessons and Resources
By Cynthia Kirkeby
Nov 2, 2007, 22:04 PST
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Guitar Lessons and Resources
We have assembled a great set of resources for guitar players. Whether you’re looking for lessons, tools, or tabs, you’ll find them below.
Guitar Tuner
Use this excellent online tool to tune your guitar. You can do a standard tuning, a number of variants, or adjust a particular string to a custom tuning, all with a click of your mouse.
SourceChordbook.com
Guitar Lessons
These lesson are available for students of all levels and styles. There are lessons on theory with everything from scales and modes to chord construction. Additionally, there are guitar tabs available for many popular songs. There are also many resources that are not directly related to guitar lessons. These resources show minor repairs, tips, blues licks, and much more.
Source: Patrick MacFarlane
Riff ‘O the Week and Online Lessons
Each week this site posts another free lesson showing step-by-step instructions on how to play a riff. There is also a listen feature and a video of the placement of your hands in the lesson. Some lessons require membership, but there are a number of free lessons that you can try out first.
Source: Hot Frets
Guitar Scales
Practice your pentatonic scales, or switch to a blues or harmonic scale instead. You can also transpose your scales and change the direction and speed.
SourceChordbook.com
Guitar Chords
This is my favorite chord tool online. You can check out all sorts of variations on chords, see the fingering on the frets for left or right-handed players, electric or acoustic guitars, and so much more. Take a little time to explore this amazing tool. There are so many wonderful features in this tool, you'll find this will become one of your favorite tools as well.
SourceChordbook.com
Scale Creator - Guitar
Choose a root note and a scale type from the two drop down menus. You’ll receive a printable chart showing all of the guitar notes in that scale. A great tool!
Source: Hot Frets
The Arpeggiator
Similar to the Scale Creator. Choose your root note and chord type to see a chart of all of the note locations on your guitar. These can be used to create chords or to play single notes in a progression like a scale, known as an arpeggio.
Source: Hot Frets
The Progressionator
This interesting tool allows you to pick a key, specify a progression and a style, and then generate an audio version of your creation.
Source: Hot Frets
Chord Finder
This is one of the best tools for a new guitar player. Choose your root note and then specify any modification of the note and you’ll see how to play the chord on the guitar. Click next to see the other finger placements of the same chord. An excellent tool!
Source: Hot Frets
Sheet Music
Want to buy sheet music, songbooks or guitar tabs? Try Sheet Music Plus. They have over a quarter million titles to choose from, and you can order online. Choose by artist, song name, or instrument and see the music available.
Source: Sheet Music Plus
Guitar Noise
This site lists itself as an “online guitar college.” There are lessons for beginner and intermediate students, which cover bass guitar as well as acoustic and electric guitars. There are also lessons on how to tune your guitar, changing bad habits, setting up a jam session, and just about everything else to do with guitar playing, including songwriting.
Source: Guitar Noise
Guitar Chords
This is another chord finder which displays all of the layouts of a requested chord. Specify the root, quality, vice, number of voices, and display preference.
Source: Active Guitar
Name that Note
Do you think you know your guitar notes? Find out with this handy interactive quiz. Or try Name the Interval when you get good at the notes.
Source: Active Guitar
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