Guitar Lessons Directory

• Guitar Lessons - This page has the lessons from Guitar Lesson of the Week, a mailing list that was in operation a while back, Jim's Chord Lessons, and some other lessons covering soloing, alternate picking, figuring out songs, and more.
  
• Guitar Gear News We announce new guitar and related gear as it is released. Guitars, bass, amps, effects, musical accessories.
  
  
• Guitar-Online - A series of shareware lesson pacakges.
  
• Carvel's Guitar Page - Guitar lessons and ar lessons over the web.
  
• Guitar Main - Jazz guitar lessons.
  
• Guitar Freak's Home Page - Lessons for the beginning guitarist.
  
• The Ultimate On Line Guitar Tutor - A series of lessons and excercises for the beginning guitarist.
  
• cyberfret.com - Free lessons and instruction, incorporating MIDI files and video clips.
  
  
• Guitar Lessons - Novice,
  intermediate, and advanced lessons.
  
• Beginning Guitar Lessons
  
• Guitar Masters - Chord diagrams, scales, arpeggios, and chord substitutions.
  
• Chord Progressions for Guitar - An ongoing series of lessons on chords and recognizing progressions.
  
• Chord Substitution Lessons - A series of lessons originally posted in the Guitar Forum.
  
• Guitar Guitar - Lessons focused on technique.
  
  
• Guitarology - Lessons, chord, and scale charts.
  
• Guitar Lesson World - Lessons for many styles and levels. Mentioned in Rolling Stone and Yahoo! Internet Life.
  
• A Crash Course in Guitar Theory - A series of free lessons.
  
• Info Guitar
  
• The Ultimate Guitar Page - Theory and technique lessons.
  
• Jazz Guitar Lessons - The page plugs a private lesson service, but also has chapters for an upcoming jazz guitar method book.
  
  
• Guitar Lessons by James J. Brunelle - A set of lessons covering chords and scales.
  
• Guitar4u - A guitar instruction site with articles written by Berklee teachers.
  
• Guitar Tricks - A collection of riffs and solo ideas, plus you can submit your own.
  
• World Guitar - A collection of riffs and solos from popular guitar songs
  
• Keefa's Guitar Haven - Lessons for the beginner.
  
• The Asylum - Contains some scale and arpeggio lessons.
  
  
• Guitar Lix Interactive - Licks and chords with both tab and audio clips.
  
• Vision Music - Some free lessons and MIDI jam tracks.
  
• Classical Etudes for Lead Guitar - A selection of etudes with tab and MIDI files.
  
• Open-String Guitar Lessons - Monthly lessons with jazz, world-beat, and classical influences.
  
• Chops from Hell - Excercises for improving your technique and speed. Several instructional books are also being offered.
  
• The Essential Guitar Guide - This is an on-line preview of a book that will probably be published, that covers some fundmental music theory and applying it to the guitar. As it is still being edited, the author welcomes comments.
  
  
• Harmonic Jive's Guitar Lessons - A series of rather brief, but useful lessons.
  
• Andrew's Guitar Page - Contains several lessons on the basics.
  
• Kyles Virtual Guitar Lesson
  
• Peter Vogl's Guitar Site
  
• Randy's Guitar Clinic - Contains some basic guitar and theory lessons.
  
• Guitar Main - Covers some aspects of playing blues and jazz guitar.
  
• Guitas, Music, and Ideas - Some material on chord construction, voice leading, substitutions, position playing, and more.
  
  
• Dansm's Acoustic Guitar Page - Some basic lessons on fingerpicking and theory.
  
• Flamenco Techniques - Contains a tutorial on Flamenco guitar.
  
• Donald Loigon's Guitar Site - Contains lessons on blues and scales/improvisation.
  
• The Fret Page
  
• Music 101 - A new site with some chord and scale references, and lessons on the way.
  
• The Online Guitar College - Links to guitar lesson sites.
  
  
• Guitar.net Chord Archive - Chord descriptions accompanied with a fretboard diagram and sound clip.
  
• Dave's Guitar Instruction - A series of chord exercises and licks.
  
• Guide to Chord Formation (26K) - A rather extensive explanation of chords starting from intervals and triads, through 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th chords.
  
• Introduction to Music Theory for Guitar by Dimitris Dranidis - Covers many basic theory topics like chord construction and harmony, supplemented with fretboard diagrams.
  
• Musical Modes - A brief explanation on modes and how to derive them, accompanied with a useful table.
  
• "A Jazz Improvisation Primer" by Marc Sabatella - A very comprehensive introduction. Might be worth a look even if you don't play jazz.
  
  
• Jazclass - Not aimed specifically at guitar, but may still be useful. It's set of free jazz lessons accompanied by sheet music and MIDI files. You can also buy additional lessons.
  
• Warmup Exercises - Some simple licks and patterns to help you loosen up be ing.
  
• Exotic Scales - Some scales from cultures around the world that you might want to experiment with.
  
  

Reference Material

• OGRE (Online Guitare) - A web implementation of the Guitare program, that generates ASCII fretboard diagrams of whatever chord you specify. It can also generate a variety of scales (major, minor, dorian, lydian, etc.)
  
• Guitar Archive of Fretboard Figures - Can generate a variety of scale, mode and chord diagrams.
  
• The InterChart - A Java applet that will display scales, arpeggios, and chords, with plenty of options.
  
• The Ultimate Chord Finder - A JavaScript based interactive chord dictionary.
  
• Chord Tutor - A searchable database of chord diagrams.
  
• Interactive Chord Dictionary - A Java based chord utility.
  
  
• On-Line Guitar Chord Dictionary - A nifty search engine for finding chord diagrams or finding chord names from diagrams you specificy.
  
• Super Guitar Chord Finder - A java applet that displays chords in several voicings (for both righty and lefty players.)
  
• Javascript Guitar Tutor - Several tools for generating chord and scale diagrams. May require Netscape 3.0.
  
• WS64 - Guitar Chords - A JavaScript chord display utility.
  
• JavaScript Tablature - A simple page that can display arbitrary chord and scale structures on a fretboard.
  
• Phoenix Guitar Resources - Diagrams and formulas for modes and chords.
  
  
• Co/acoustic - Chord and scale patterns.
  
• Greg Jones' Music Theory Page
  
• The Ultimate Guitar Chord Chart II (75K) (also available in PDF format (594K)) - A very comprehensive chord chart! (You can view the postscript version if you have a postscript viewer, like ghostscript. Otherwise, you can just download it and print it out to a postscript printer.)
  
• On Line Chord Directory (or a mirror site). Fretboard diagrams for chords (Requires Java).
  
• Chord and Theory Chart (42K)- Covers basic music theory, has a detailed discussion of chord construction, and also talks about modes. The file is in ASCII format.
  
  
• Chords Simplified
  
• chord-chart1.gif (PostScript version 708K) and chord-chart2.gif (PostScript version 580K ) - Charts for commonly used chords in each key, plus keysignatures. Displays both keyboard and fretboard diagrams. By Tony Cormier. The gif versions are much smaller, but of lower quality. NOTE - the postscript files are very large uncompressed and not all printers can handle them.
  

Guitar Software Companies

Commercial Instructional and Playing Aids

Here you will find links to manufacturers of some instructional tools, publishers of books, and guitar teachers that offer lessons via the 'net.

Schools

• Berklee College of Music
  
• Grove 'School Without Walls' - The School That Comes To You.
  
• Duquesne University School of Music: Guitar Department
  
• Guitar Activity Center - Instruction center located in Mountain View, California.
  
  
• Guitar Study Center - Montreal based lesson program.
  
• Jim Sutton Institute of Guitar - International correspondence guitar school for all levels and styles.
  
• Musicians Institute
  
• Music Tech
  
• National Guitar Workshop - Info on their seminars/classes and how to apply.
  

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