Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument. It is generally played with the fingers of the left hand{{ref|rhlh}}. The right hand plucks the strings with either the fingers or a plectrum, (guitar pick). The sound is produced by vibrating strings, which in turn resonate the body and neck.

External links

General Information

• Basic Info about the Guitar -- history, resources, free lessons, and more.....
• A completely free and interactive chord dictionary with 387,420,489 chords for guitar.
• GuitarBasics.com
• Guitar.com
• Jazz Guitar Discussion Group FAQ
• Wayne Cripps' lute pages Photos of replica Renaissance and Baroque guitars can be found among the lutes.
• Fretland Acoustic guitar products, reviews and tips.
• Classical Guitar Illustrated History Summary of the history of guitar-like instruments from 1900 B.C. through modern times.
• Granary-Guitars - A collection of fine classical guitars in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, which is occasionally open for viewing and playing.
• Classic Cat has on its Classical Guitar Mp3 Page an overview of some 100 free guitar mp3s on the internet.
• Guitar Noise Great articles on theory and practice of Guitar.
• Guitar Directory is a nice searchable web directory with thousands of guitar-oriented sites and site reviews.
• A Guide to Jazz Guitar is all about jazz guitar: tabs, lessons, mp3, transcriptions.
• ZWorkbench has some cool guitar software that works on your cell phone. They have a metronome, pitch pipe, and chord reference.
• Guitar Wiki — a wiki-based guitar resource
• News, views, history of the Guitar
• Guitar Gods Interview Series Interviews with top players - from Grammy Award winners to Gods of the Underground.
• Lutehole.com - Guitar soundhole cover
• Guitar-Poll.com
• The Guitar Players Toolbox Site provides practical tools and information on guitar chords, chord charts, and guitar playing.

Music & Tablature

• Free Guitar Tablature Search a variety of guitar tablature including Beatles, Led Zeppelin and more...
• Guitar Tabs has some cool guitar tabs available for free use, great resource.
• Guitar Tabs Axetopia has a good resource list and search.
• More Guitar Tabs Over 120,000 guitar tabs online.
• Tabble.com: Guitar Tabs Contains guitar tablature from many artists and bands. Sorted alphabetically by band. Search included.
• Delcamp.net Free sheet music, tablatures and MP3 files for classical guitar, forum.
• Guitar Chord Charts Online a guide to guitar chords.
• Mxtabs Guitar tab site that also includes bass and drum tabs.
• OnLine Guitar Archive The internet's first (1992) and best (no duplicate files) archive for guitar tab (tablature) and crd (chord) files.
• TabRobot Guitar tablature search engine.
• Guitar Tablature Archive Find guitar tabs and other useful guitar resources.
• BluesTabs.net The biggest resource for Blues guitar tabs and chords.

Lessons

• Free Guitar Lessons Free beginner guitar lessons, including tablature, original songs, and chords
• Guitar Lesson World by Patrick MacFarlane, with exercises and many lessons, for free.
• Guitar Tuning Tips has information on basic tuning, along with alternative guitar tunings.
• GuitarGearHeads is a free resource for lessons and professional gear reviews.
• Free Guitar Lessons From novice guitar lessons to advanced concepts & technique.
• Blues Guitar Lessons Free Blues Guitar lessons. Also lessons on chords and progressions, music theory etc.
• Guitar Lesson of the Week These 29 lessons are probably the first guitar lessons distributed on the Internet. They were first distributed in the late 80s as e-mails to subscribers. They represent a little bit of Internet history.
• Guitar Lessons with Tab Free Online guitar lessons from ActoGuitar. Includes tabs with audio and video demonstrations.
• Free Blues Guitar Lessons all you need to know to play the Blues. With midis, tabs and downloads for every lesson.
• Folk Guitar Instruction for playing backup guitar for old-time fiddle music.
• Guitarz Forever.com So... you're Learning to Play... Guitar. Ever want to make playing look so effortless? You can! It's easy...and fun.
• Guitarbuild.com Guide to Guitarbuilding.

Synth Manufacturers

• Roland Guitar Synths Roland US