- iBreatheMusic.com
Music theory, lessons in technique, advice by professional musicians. Authors include Steve Morse and Berklee teachers.
- Black Belt Guitar Academy
- Money Chords
A categorized collection of links to lessons on the web, plus an instructional book for sale.
- Guitar-Primer
A guide for adults learning to play guitar.
- Music Theory for Guitar
Lessons on applying theory to the guitar.
- Theory Lessons.com
Free lessons covering a variety of theory topics.
- Blues Guitar
A collection of lessons on many aspects of blues guitar.
- Power Chords Today
Instruction in drop "D", power chords, and theory.
- Guitar-Online
A series of shareware lesson pacakges.
- electric-guitar.co.uk
- Guitar Simplified for Everyone
The Guitar Barre® Method
- Carvel's Guitar Page
Guitar lessons and tips that include animations and Real Audio sound clips.
- RiffInteractive
Offers live guitar lessons over the web.
- Guitar George
a site offering to teach guitar players chord structures through diagrams, photos, sounds, note names and staffs.
- Guitar Made Simpler
Guitar lesson book based on the private intruction experience of a veteran guitar player.
- Guitar Main
Jazz guitar lessons.
- Jazz Practice Loops
Loops to practive improvising plus theory articles and lessons.
- Jazz Guitar Online
Lessons, transcriptions, and licks of jazz artists.
- Guitar for Beginners
Instruction on a number of topics ranging from buying and tuning a guitar to chord progressions.
- Flash Guitar
An instructional site for beginning guitar players that makes use of animations and videos.
- HotFrets
Subscription-based lesson and riff site with tab creation tools. Some free examples.
- 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.
- Free Guitar Videos
A large collection of excerpts from commercially available lesson videos.
- Topless Guitar Lessons
Novice, intermediate, and advanced lessons.
- Beginning Guitar Lessons
- Rob's Essential Guitar Guide
Beginner level instruction including essential riffs and songs.
- Guitar Tutorial
A flash presentation covering the very basics of getting started with guitar.
- Guitar Masters
Chord diagrams, scales, arpeggios, and chord substitutions.
- The Guitar Suite
Basic lessons and instruction material, tailored toward acoustic and fingerstyle guitar.
- Study-Guitar.com
Instructional site with exercises, chort charts, lessons, and forums.
- Intimate Audio
Site run a Guitar One editor and GIT instructor with online guitar lessons, exclusive interview/lessons with established players, and more.
- Chord Progressions for Guitar
An ongoing series of lessons on chords and recognizing progressions.
- Ear Training for Guitarists
Tips and lessons complete with MIDI examples.
- Chord Substitution Lessons
A series of lessons originally posted in the Guitar Forum.
- #Guitar
Website for the IRC channel, which also offers some lessons.
- Guitar Guitar
Lessons focused on technique.
- Guitarology
Lessons, chord, and scale charts.
- Guitar Lounge
Teaches songs, chords, and how to read tablature with video examples
- FreeLicks.net
Scales, runs, and arpeggios with tab and video clips.
- Guitar Lesson World
Lessons for many styles and levels. Mentioned in Rolling Stone and Yahoo! Internet Life.
- Advanced Chord Concepts
A review and analysis of advanced chord structures with diagrams.
- A Crash Course in Guitar Theory
A series of free lessons.
- VH Guitar Lessons and Techniques
Novice to advanced lessons based on the playing of Edward Van Halen.
- Info Guitar
- Internet Guitar Database
Learn to play the guitar online for free using their free lessons and chord charts.
- Maggotcontrol
Teaches riffs and arpeggios, with more lessons on the way.
- Mangore.com
instructional website on classical guitar playing.
- Learn to Play Guitar
Free e-book of lessons.
- Jazz Guitar Lessons
The page plugs a private lesson service, but also has chapters for an upcoming jazz guitar method book.
- M3 Guitar
Jazz on a 7-string electric tunerd in major thirds, explaining musical elements along with audio examples.
- 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
- The Asylum
Contains some scale and arpeggio lessons.
- Cambridge Guitar School
A school in England, but their site offers some free on-line 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.
- 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.
- Kyles Virtual Guitar Lesson
- 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.
- Guide to Chord Formation (26K)
A rather extensive explanation of chords starting from intervals and triads, through 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th chords.
- "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 before playing.
- Exotic Scales
Some scales from cultures around the world that you might want to experiment with.
- ActiveGuitar.com
Over 250 pages of interactive guitar lessons with tab and music playback
- Play Guitar
"An easy and direct way in studying how to play guitar"
- Stars of Guitar
Interviews and lessons with guitar greats
- Seawing Jazz Master Guitar Technique
Introduction & easy method to play Jazz / Funk chord progressions & improvisations.
- Rifftech Online Guitar Method
Beginner to advanced guitar lessons online.
- RobTougher.com
Offers a number of web-based music theory drills.
- Ukulele Jams
an instructional website on how to best play the Ukulele.
- CourseJunction
Lists instructors for various instruments.
- 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.
- Guitar to Player
Chord generators and chord name finders.
- Acoustic Music Webtools
Some great little JavaScript tools for figuring out capo points, finding chords for melodies, and chord speller. Useful to non-acoustic players as well.
- Chord House
Features a JavaScript tool for generating chord fingering and scale 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.
- 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.
- ChordFind.com
A JavaScript chord display utility for guitar, keyboard, and 4-string instruments.
- Guitar Chord Diagrams
Also includes some explanations on construction.
- The Basic Guitar Improvisational Crash Course
A series of charts for a variety of chords, scales, and triads.
- 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.
- Killer Guitar Chords
Hundreds of guitar chords listed and illustrated
- Chord Chart
Basic and intermediate guitar chord charts.
- 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.)
- 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.
- Jammit Music
Lessons and information about equipment and hardware adjustments
- Quickstart Guitar.com
Site with a couple books to teach you guitar quickly
- Guitar Software Companies
- Commercial Instruction 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.
