Camps and Workshops
American School of Lutherie, Augusta Heritage Center of Davis & Elkins Coll, European Lutherie School, International Guitar Seminars, NGW - National Guitar Workshop, Roberto Venn - School of Luthiery, Rotenburg Guitar Festival
8notes.com
Free beginners guitar lessons and information. Free pieces and riffs to listen to and download.
About Guitar
Featuring beginner and advanced guitar lessons, tablature and lyric resources, a question and answer forum, and links to guitar resources on the Web.
Absolute Fretboard Knowledge
Offers software-program information, which deals with learning the fretboard notes on guitar, bass, mandoline, and other fretted instruments. Includes free trial version, order details, and newsletter subscription.
Acoustic Guitar Central: Free Online Guitar Lesson
Many pages of lessons for beginners and intermediate level players. Topics include flatpicking, fingerstyle, jazz and swing, and Blues.
Active Guitar
Interactive guitar lessons with tab and audio playback.
Advanced Chord Concepts
Structured advanced guitar chord method that provides a solid foundation for continued progress in jazz, blues, fusion and rock.
American Folk Songs
Collection of american folk music for study and performance. Useful for chord studies and applying technique.
Andrews Guitar Page
This site covers in detail the rudiments of music, specifically for beginning guitar players.
Big Daddy Doodle's Guitaropedia
Free online guitar lessons: topics covered include modes, scales, arpeggios, music theory, and chords. Many lessons include examples in audio and midi formats.
Bill Watson Guitar Method
Free lessons for beginning guitarists utilizing simple text and clear photos. Site advertises a free e-mail based course.
Black Belt Guitar Academy
Quality free lessons (graded of course ;), and unique approach to learning the instrument. Includes chords and scale generator, forums, blogs, and inspiration tips.
Building Chord Skills
Building and using modern chord patterns and techniques.
Busker.net Guitar Lesson
Guitar lessons with video for beginners.
Charlie Christian: Legend of the Jazz Guitar
Includes tutorial illustrating how the father of Jazz Guitar approached improvisation. Also included: licks, gallery, and discography.
Chicken Pickin' Rock Guitar Tab
Scales, lessons, riffs and songs in tablature, some have wav file demonstrations.
Chord House
Easily get detailed finger settings for 1,000+ guitar chords, clearly displayed in the graphical manner familiar from music books. Selected chords can be printed.
ChordCoach
Offers free downloadable chord software program, as well as tips on songwriting, jamming and musical fundamentals.
Classical Guitar
This web site uses the term classic guitar to refer to the instrument itself; it refers to classical guitar as the art of playing classical music written for, or adapted to the classic guitar.
Classical Guitar History
Offers a history of guitar playing. Includes dictionary, classical guitar technique, guitar philosophy, and discussion.
Cyberfret.com: College of Guitar Wisdom
Free online guitar lessons using video, audio, midi and notation to make the learning experience both fun, and easy to understand.
Dansm's Home Page
Teaches fingerpicking, scales, theory and other topics primarily to the beginning acoustic guitarist.
Electric-Guitar.Co.Uk
Free guitar lessons, tablature, chords, and basic theory. Offers a members area, search and submit tab feature, and forums.
Fender Players Club
Free online PDF guitar lessons with mp3 audio, artist profiles, articles, and videos. Includes Fender legends, featured artists,and instruction for all skill levels.
Flamenco Information
Compas analysis, music theory, MIDI files, articles, and links.
Flash Guitar - Beginner guitar lessons
Quicktime videos and Flash animations showing scales, chords and other material for beginners.
Free Guitar Lessons by Mike Strickland
A new approach that teaches easy theory on guitar. Links and lessons for bass, keyboards, harmonica, saxophone and general music theory.
Greg's Guitar
Animated lessons using the Flash plug-in, some basic lessons with MP3 practice tracks and helpful articles are free.
Guitallica
Guitar in the Metallica style. Free original lessons, tutorials, and tabs.
Guitar 101
Rock guitar instruction and illustrations, 440 tuning diagrams, tools, and audio.
Guitar Basics
Basic guitar theory lessons for each day of the week. Includes chords, arpeggios, scales, books, guitars for sale, and guitar effects.
Guitar DownUnder
Free classical and fingerstyle guitar music in html and pdf. Info on left and right hand techniques, nail care and tuning.
Guitar Dreams
Free guitar lessons online for playing lead guitar. Includes alternate picking technique, scales, arpeggios, sweep picking, legato, string skipping and tapping. Sound files included. Also features a discussion forum.
Guitar for Beginners
Devoted to the basics of music and the guitar. Buying, tuning, reading music, chords, scales, and strumming tips.
Guitar Lessons at Zentao
Guitar lessons for the absolute beginner. Theory lessons for experienced guitar players. Tab, chord and scale diagram explanation and guitar anatomy included for reference.
Guitar Lessons Online
Guitar lessons for beginners, making use of tabs, so no knowledge of reading music is necessary.
Guitar Lix Interactive
Features licks, riffs and solos for lead guitar in streaming audio. Also includes information on scales and modes.
Guitar Lovers
Comprehensive teaching advice on many aspects of guitar playing including chords, arpeggios, rock licks, tunings amongst others. Features incorporate diagrams, tabs and audio backing tracks.
Guitar Mania
Free live interactive online guitar lessons every Friday at 7:00 p.m. ET.
Guitar Masters
Comprehensive guitar instruction, non-commercial and banner free. Includes: Chord diagrams, scales, blues and jazz chords, substitution, advanced studies, music theory, arpeggios, and technique.
Guitar Noise
Guitar education site featuring free online lessons, musician columns, and theory pointers.
Guitar Notes - Instruction
An extensive collection of links and information - guitarists, chords, tablature, builders, shops, instruction, equipment.
Guitar Principles
Emphasizes playing techniques involving minimum strain. Also gives tips on motivation, choosing a teacher and developing a repertoire.
Guitar Secrets
A visual learning experience. Guitar chords, scales, private and free guitar lessons. Video, audio and colored illustrations.
Guitar Secrets School of Music
Instructions on reading tablature, guitar chords, scales, modes and progressions.
Guitar Tricks
Listen and learn to play guitar for free at the largest riff archive on the web.
Guitar Tuition
Guitar lessons for free. Examples of songs, chords, exercises, and technical details.
Guitar tutor online
Free online guitar lessons. Sample tunes are in MIDI and mp3 formats.
Guitar Vortex
Includes many links to tablature, equipment, and information for guitar students and teachers.
Guitar-Primer
Adult guitar method using chord diagrams and extensive audio clips.
Guitarbuzz!!
Beginning to advanced online guitar lessons from a professional instructor. Features Flash animation and audio examples of every lesson.
Guitarchitecture
Online guitar lessons for amateurs to professionals, selected tabs, chords and scales.
Guitarist Joey Goldstein
A page of technical exercises for the intermediate to advanced guitarist.
GuitarMasturbations
Guitar lessons for guitar shredders, voice-chat enabled for online lessons.
Guitarology.com
Music theory applied to the guitar. A collection of scales, chords, arpeggios and progressions in graphic format and conventional music notation.
Guitarweek
Lessons on scales, chords, octaves, and tuning. Uses diagrams and worksheets.
Insane Guitar
Dedicated to Shred-style guitar and playing, with audio samples, including some on video. Also contains master classes, jam tracks, archives, and a message board.
Intimate Audio
Free guitar lessons from Guitar One magazine's Dale Turner. Includes MP3 demo's, tab, and interviews with Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, and George Lynch.
Introduction to Guitar Chord Theory
Introduction to guitar basics and theory. Includes scales, intervals, triads, chord names, tab, links, chord construction and dictionary.
Jim Sutton Institute of Guitar
International correspondence guitar school. Jazz, blues, latin, country, all styles and levels of personalized studies available.
Jugend Gitarrenorchester
A music education project sponsored by the state of Baden - Württemberg, Germany.
justinguitar
Lessons, transcriptions, TAB songs, sound files and chord charts, biographies of significant players, jokes, and links.
Kyle's Virtual Guitar Lessons
Free online lessons and resources for the beginning player.
M.A.M.I. Music Scales Atlas
Offers a guitar chord and scale reference text that includes extensive fingerboard note and interval scale charts.
MaximumMusician.com
Offers free guitar lessons, mostly to beginners and intermediates. Gives advice on finding other free resources to learn guitar with, and how to make practicing more fun.
Money Chords
Popular chord progressions, chord substitutions, chord construction, guitar chord charts, and songwriting links.
Music and Guitar - Naftali Lahav
Original courses for educators, guitar studio, and the webmaster's own compositions. In English and Hebrew.
Music Theory for Guitar
Scales and modes for the guitar with roots on the E and A strings.
Music V.I. Guitar and Piano Lessons
Piano and guitar all audio lessons, including courses for the blind. Commercial site with free samples.
New Music Educational Project
An educational program in which each pupil constructs their own instrument. Includes information, video and information on how to order a kit guitar. [English/Hebrew]
Numb Nubs Guitar Site
Chords, scales, lessons, progressions; for beginners and advanced students.
OC Music
Offers basic guitar lessons, a Shockwave treble and bass-clef note finder, an online tuner, and a theory-quiz game. Also includes Piano chord and scale finder.
Olav Torvund's Guitar Pages
Lessons on blues guitar, with chord progressions and basic music theory.
Play Guitar in One Hour
Gib Kerr offers a free downloadable simple course for beginners.
Play the Guitar
Several clear, concise articles for an intro to understanding the fretboard, building dexterity, and understanding chords and keys. Also, some free, instructive tabs in TEF format. Focused on helping beginners.
Scaleopia
A collection of music scales written out in standard notation, tablature and fretboard diagrams for guitar.
Schmange's Guitar Tricks
Offers free advanced guitar lessons and techniques. Instructions include mp3s, MIDI, tabs, and diagrams.
Slide guitar for beginners
Easily learnt basic building blocks for blues slide playing, with examples in MP3 format.
Soundme Guitar Lessons
Articles on triads, the blues, theory and chords.
Sultan Of String
Lessons and style guide from a heavy metal / Asian orientated guitarist from Switzerland. The lessons include monthly riffs, tabs and sound clips based on the artist's own work.
The Beginning Guitarist's Website
Basic tips about equipment, the parts of a guitar, and suggestions of music to play.
The Guitar Mansion
Dedicated to all the hardworking guitar rockers around the world.
The Guitarzone
Selected guitar exercises, lessons, songs, in TAB and notation forms plus a few MIDI files.
Universal Total Guitar Plus Center
Deals with many aspects of learning and playing guitar and music, related equipment, and accessories. Includes lessons, practice tracks, original MP3 demos, recording tips, gigging advice, gear recommendations, philosophy, and tone discussions.
Virtual Guitar Lessons, Tabs, Tools and Sheetmusic
Free guitar lessons and tools, including chord and scale calculator, forum, theory quizzes, and links.
WholeNote
Guitar community where visitors can take or make on-line guitar lessons. Includes tab and music playback, links, forums, equipment, and ear training.
Zager
Online guitar instruction combining lead line, bass, rhythm, chord structure and phrasing of the lead line.