...collected links related to music & guitar

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• Cyberfret CAGED lesson
• CAGED Guitar System: How to Make the Most of It - Desi Serna

Theory

• Readers' Q&A About Music Theory
• Articles by Gunharth Randolf (from IBreatheMusic) - He's responsible for my learning music theory, TY!
        - Intervals
        - Triads - The 1st Chords
        - 7th Chords
• Development of Chords from Scale tones in Thirds - Dennis O'Neill
• Theory on the Web - a course by Robert J. Frank with supportive midis

Pentatonic Scales

• Improv Tools - The Pentatonics- an 8-part article by Gunharth Randolf
  
• GuitarSeek - Shows scales on neck
• Interactive scales- Hit "interactive" link" - World Guitar.com (midis of various scales)
• TheoryLessons
  
• "Turning Scales (including Pentatonic) Into Solos" - An 8-part article by David Hodge ... (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
• Backing track to practice C pent scale (Guitar Alliance)

  Etc.

  • Auto-Magic Harmony - Article on harmonizing string pairs (by Mike LaFountain)
  • 83 Lessons by David Hodge - from GuitarNoise (contributor to "Play Guitar" &"Acoustic Guitar" magazines)
  • GuitarPlayerWorld
  • MoneyChords.com - Learn Intervals by Ear (tests & all- FUN!)
  • Dansm's Guitar site - Great site, easy to understand.
  • Dansm's Guitar Chord Theory
  • Torvund's Blues Guitar Lessons - & Backing tracks for 12 Bar Blues (This guy ROCKS!)
  • Michael Furstner's Jazclass
  • Music Learning Games - Maximum Musician
  • The Next Step Guitar - lessons, performance, recording
  • Guitar Wiki
  • Maximum Musician- Guitar Lessons that don't suck - "Name that Note" Game - ("Test Your Fretboard IQ") on !st page
  • Name that Note on fretboard - at WholeNote.com
  • Randy's C-A-G-E-D Lessons - The BEST!(See if you can find this on another page. This is a GEOCITIES page!
  • Good CAGED Lessons - Justin Guitar
  • Justin Sandercoes's lesson on Music Theory in PDF
  • Triad fretboard patterns - Zentao- Excellent explanation of how the fretboard is organized to form C-A-G-E-D system
  • HarmonyCentral - Lessons by the week
  • WorldGuitar.com - scales & modes, barre chord forms of A & E M, m, & their 7ths (Hard to navigate; use menu from homepage)
  • MyGuitarSolo - Lessons, scales, licks, midis, artcles etc.
  • TheNextStepGuitar.com - Lessons, articles etc.
  • How to Play "Wonderful Tonight"- from Elmore Music (note by note)
  Entire Books
  • Outside Shore Music, A Jazz Improvisation Primer - Entire book by Marc Sabatella
  • "Music Fundamentals on the Web" - a textbook by Michael Sult (Guitarland.com)
  • The How & Tao of Folk Guitar - An entire book!
  • Essential Guitar Guide - An entire book(let) on Guitar
  • Wheat Design.Com - An entire book on BASS lessons
  • Music Theory Manual - by Ruby Cliff Computing
  • Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Handbook - An entire book in PDF (Info on blues too)
  • Outside Shore Music, A Jazz Improvisation Primer -by Marc Sabatella
  General Guitar Links
  ...in no particular order!
  
  • GuitarLand - Lessons, theory, picking. This is an online experimental class with everything including midi examples.
  • MyGuitarSolo.com - Scales, Chops, Licks, Technique, Improvisation, Guitar Lessons
  • About.com Guitar - Covers everything (Join for newsletter)
  • Dynamic Guitar Technique
  • Mel Bay Guitar Sessions
  • Jazz Guitar - lotsa stuff incl. modes (I belong to NL & forum)
  • Guitar Dreams-Lessons etc. - Join for newsletter To login, go to main site. Squeeze name into box. Start from right side. Pw=sos.
  • StartPlayingGuitar
  • Marshal Guitar Lessons - Scroll down page
  • The Guitar Suite - free lessons & other good stuff
  • GuitarBasics.com - Huge number of lessons, scales etc.; emphasis on modes
  • Graham English Theory/lessons
  • Ultimate guiar.com - Lessons, tabs, forum
  • PlaytheGuitar.com - Lessons, Q&A re. guitar & more...
  • World Guitar - Scales, basic lessons etc.
  • JustinGuitar.com - good lessons, CAGED, tabs, tab/chord/notation sheets
  • Strumming - guitar.gg
  • The Ultimate Online Guitar Tutor
  • Harmony Central - Guitar lessons - big site
  • HotFrets - Lessons & more..
  • The Guitar Site
  • Whole Note.com - Has everything, including interactive midis, Groove Tool etc.
  • Power Tab.net
  • Guitar Lesson World - 47 lessons from Patrick MacFarlane (excellent!)
  • Guitar Chords Magic - Lessons, chords etc.
  • Guitar Dreams - Mostly lead!
  • BetterGuitar.com - A Good Movable Chords lesson for practice
  • "CAGED Charts - A Beginner's Reference" - by Darryl Roberts (WholeNote lesson)
  • Randy's Guitar Book for Beginners
  • Guitar Theory Manual by Guitarra.com - A whole book & more
  • Dr. Duck
  • FreeGuitar Chords.com
  • VirtualGuitarCenter - Good Music Theory Blog
  • BlueChainLightening.net - All about the Pentatonic Scales
  • 4 Years of Lessons covering a wide variety of topics by Christopher Roberts
  • The Cipher - A slightly different "system" for learning music
  • Chord Wizard.com - Very good theory lessons. See free online lessons
  • BetterGuitar.com - Lessons, advice etc.
  • ezFolk.com - Lessons, folk songs, tabs, melody & chords, theory (also see "Songs")
  • Torvund's Lessons - Emphasis on Blues, theory, backing tracks
  • I Breathe Music - Many very good free lessons, esp. theory, forum
  • BLGuitar - big site, lotsa lessons
  • "Music Theory for Songwriters" - Theory & Songwriting lessons
  • Moneychords - songwriting lessons & theory
  • Index of Lessons from "Guitar Tricks"
  • BluesLessons.net
  • Charlie Christian Jazz Guitar & tute
  • ChordMelody.com - Newsletter instruction links at very bottom of page
  • GuitarWeek.com - lessons
  • BigGuitar.com - many lessons & articles
  • Guitar Noise
  • Supersonic Guitar Lessons
  • Blues by Matthieu Brandt
  • Tuck & Patti's Fingerstyle & Picking
  • Tied Strumming Patterns Lessons - Justin Sandercoe
  • High Country Guitar - really good one; lots on modes, C-A-G-E-D, & general guitar stuff
  • Fingerpicking - from About.com
  • Article- Characteristics of Different Keys - Many University links with musical info
  • Cafe Saxophone - Jazz for Sax; this lesson: Dorian Mode in Jazz Improv
  • Guitar Secrets.com
  • Elmore-Music - How to play "Wonderful Tonight" (with midi tracks)
  • Guitar Secrets - lessons, gear, forum (Sign Up)
  • Flupe.com - Free Lessons at bottom
  • Lessons by Mike Crutcher
  • More Lessons by Mike Crutcher
  Lyrics
  
  • ezFolk.com - Lyrics to folk tunes
  • Risa
  • The How & Tao of Folk Guitar - An entire book! Risa's Song Lyrics Archive
  • Rare Lyrics - over 176,000 song lyrics
  • Elyrics.net - lots
  • Ultimate 80's Song lyrics
  • LyricsDir.com
  • Lyricsmode.com
  • Lyrics Playground Lyrics of older tunes (including international songs)
  Chord & Tab Sites
  
  • Chordie - login from here Chords, tabs, transpose, create songbook...
  • GuitarMasta - Tabs, chords...
  • Randy's Secret Song Page
  • Rockmagic.net - 56 classic band tabs & chords
  • FretPlay - Chords, forums...
  • Beaver Tabs.com
  • Betty Lou's - chords, RA samples
  • Akkords.ru - Chords of many tunes, for English version, hit link near top of page
  • MisterTab
  • GuitarBoard
  • MoreTabs.com
  • AllTabs - Traditional Songs
  • Greg's Midi & Tab
  • Bob Houlston's Site Children's/Traditional Tunes
  • Guitarguy's Golden Classics - Old tunes from the 40's & 50's
  • azchords.com - Good one!
  • Lennonchords.info - Chords of Bob Dylan, Harrison, Lennon & McCartney songs
  • Beatles Tabs
  • The Gospel Music Archive - Big Site
  • Cowpie Coral - Country Tunes (lots)
  • Ultimate Guitar - Chords, tabs, lessons, forum
  • 911 Tabs - Search engine for tabs ( Has archives of many defunct tab sites)
  • Folk Songs - Melody, tabs & chords from ezFolk.com
  • Old tunes - Has a transposing link
  • The Guitar Guy's Golden Classics - Old old pop songs
  • GuitarChords.Com- A short list of old familiar songs
  • X Guitar - Chords, tabs, & links to other chord sites.
  • WebGuitarTabs
  • My Guitar Tabs
  • Tabspedia.com
  • Yule Songs for Pagans
  • Christmas Songs from Cyberfret ( PDF file)
  • More Christmas Carols
  • Classical Guitar Tabs - & links to groups
  • Sheet Music.com - Some songs in standard notation & blankstaff & tab downloads
  • Guitar Tabs Universe - Tabs & chords
  • GuitareTab.com
  • Tabs Heaven.net
  • Ttabs.com
  • Heartood Guitar - Instruction, chords & tabs of a decent number of tunes.
  • Acoustic.org.uk
  • Guitarnotes.com
  • ditto
  • lyrics-p.com lyrics, chords, tabs
  • Tabsrus - Dutch site in Dutch

  Tools - Tuner, metronome, chordfinders, & charts, chord, tab & staff blanks, transposers etc.

  Guitar Maintenance, Repair & Setup - Build, paint, tune, etc.

     Strings
       How to change them - A tute from About.com
        Changing strings - from Guitar Alliance
        Changing Strings - Greg Cisco (Note illustration link on creating the "string bend")

  
  Guitar Gear
  Singing
  Ear Training

  
  

  Guitar Groups

  Google Usenet Guitar Groups
  

  • alt.guitar.beginner - Good one; knowledgeable posters but not for the thin-skinned!
  • alt.guitar - UK Group
  Yahoo Groups
  • Randy's Guitar Clinic - Helpful, friendly posters; no flaming!

  
  

  Miscellaneous
  • Gnod- Discover new music - Fun! Interactive bot finds music based on your fav bands
  • Make your own transposer wheel
  • THE chord at the opening of "Hard Days Night" - Rickenbacker Forum
  • The Chord at the End of "A Day In The Life" - A Wikipedia Article
  • Truckdriver Gear Change - a blatant key change
  • Reading & Writing Music for Transposing Instruments - teoria.com
  • Peavey Guitars, gear etc.
  • Earvana tuning
  • Fender.com Ibanez Guitars
  • Notes on "I'm Looking Through You" - Alan Pollack
  • Lots Guitar books for sale
  • Article- How to buy a guitar from a pawn shop
  • How to Pick a Les Paul Guitar - from Musician's Friend
  • Guitar Performance Techniques
  • Nail Care For Guitarists
  • Guitar Geek - Gear the Artists Own
  • Fav Guitarists' tones & settings
  • Public Domain & Music Copyright Law
  • MoreMusic Copyright Law - or Why the Free Song & Chord Sites are Gone!
  • Music Copyright Law
  • BMI - Here's who you pay...
  • ASCAP ... and these guys too
  • HarryFox- more on music copyright
  • Band to Band - Tracking the Rock'n'Roll Genome - What-member-of-what-band-came-from-where-&-went-to-there
  • The Beatles' Gear & Sound
  • Glossary of Musical Terms - a classical site
  • Virginia Tech Dictionary of Musical Terms
  • MP3 Song Search Engine
  
  
  The Physics of Tuning
  • The Physics of Everyday Things-Guitar - Guitar sound & frequency
  • Guitar Acoustics - How a guitar makes "sound".
  • Temperament
  • Harmony.org.uk- Theory of Harmony
  • Equal Temperament - from American Luthiers Guild
  • Temperament & Tuning
  • Pythagoras & the Guitar

    
    

    Home Recording

    Recording Engineers - How to record your music)
    PC Studio Tutor - Elaborate directions for home recording
    alt.guitar.beginner recording FAQ

    
    

    Theory
    • Dolmetsch Music Theory - Everything! (but not specifically guitar)
    • Everything you never wanted to know about the Circle of Fifths - from a math & physics point of view - AMAZING!
    • "Psychoacoustics" - Jeff Jensen's Music Theory Page
    • Music Theory On Tap - It calls itself Jazz Guitar...
    • Jazz Improvisation Almanac Music theory with emphasis on Jazz
    • Music theory at bottom of a software package explanation
    • Wikipedia Music Theory
    • Diazaridis Music/Guitar Theory
    • Gary Ewer's Guitar Theory Site - Some free lessons including "triplets"...
    • Cipher Intervals
      
    • Cipher Interval Inversions
      
    • Guitar Place - Theory & technique
    • Chord Wizard- Thorough lessons. Well done!
    • MusicTheory.net - Simple lessons in "Flash"
    • Intro to Music Theory & Aural Skills - John Steffa
    • Basic Music Theory - A course by Catherine Schmidt-Jones (Not specifically guitar theory)
    • Theory on the Web
    • Tom Pankherst's Tonality Guide
    • Reference Materials for the Undergraduate Theory Student by Robert T. Kelley - the fundamentals of tonal music theory.
    • TheoryLessons.com

      
      

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    • Morphis
    • TheoryLessons
    • The Digital Guitar
    • Rick Delsavio.com
    • Jazz Guitar - Helpful stuff about building jazz chords, lessons. etc.
    • Dynamic Guitar Technique -lessons
      
    • alt.guitar beginner FAQ
    • Guitar Junkie = Randy
    • Zentao- lessons
    • Guitar Alliance.com
    • Same site - getting started
    • Same Place- about tabs
    • Same place- tuning
    • Ultimate GuitarUltimate Guitar
    • Guitar Master(?)
    • Chord Helper (?)
    • GuitarSite.com
    • FolkoftheWood - Acoustic Lessons etc.
    • World Guitar homepage
    • Wholenote Guitar Reviews
    • GuitarSeek
    • HotFrets
    • AOL Guitar Index
    • Play the Guitar.com Q&A & articles re. guitar
    • Guitar Q & A
    • 8notes.comInteractive metronome, guitar tuner, basic theory etc.
    • (Guitar from CA- tabs & such)
    • Extensive chord Chart in TAB
    • The perfect guitar chart
    • Good guitar chart
    • Tonal Harmony
    • Christian Music Web
    • Interchart - Patterns in C Major
    • Just Strings.com -A glossary all about strings
    • Wayne's Ovation Makeover
    • Guitar Player World - Lots on scales
    • Tuning Nightmares
    • Check this Out - which note goes with a given chord
    • Gootar -Guitar Chord Name Finder
    • All About Musical Set Theory by ?

    
    
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