Blast with da Booz: learn the guitar

Monday, March 3, 2008

learn the guitar

Resources For Learning Guitar On The Web

You can learn to do just about anything on the web, and guitar playing is no different. Yeah, I know you’ve mastered the toughest songs on Guitar Hero III, but can you actually play a guitar? We’ve got 11 tools to help you start living out your dreams of being a rock legend… you know, when you’re not coding a new Twitter application.

Lessons & Tools

All-Guitar-Chords.com - Quickly look up chords and scales, see them laid out on a virtual fret board, and see progressions of a scale in tab.

ChordBook.com - A Flash-based site that will let you easily look up the fingering for any chord, and then you can click “strum” to hear how it should sound.

GuitarLessonWorld.com - Based around the book of the same name, Guitar Lesson World has numerous free lessons, examples, and MP3s to whet your appetite. You can then move on to Guitar Teacher World that offers up video tutorials and more.

GuitarTricks.com - Thousands of video tutorials for learning to play guitar. Membership is free, and you receive 25 free lessons with that, otherwise it is $10.95 a month.

HowToTuneAGuitar.org - The site features lots of good tips for beginners, like how to pick your first guitar, and features a tune-by-ear tuner that you can set to just about any setting.

http://www.licklibrary.com/TutorialsVideos.aspx

LickLibrary.com - Numerous video lessons that you can either subscribe to, or purchase on a per-video basis.

Video-Tabs.com - Video guitar tutorials split into categories from beginner to requested specific songs.

Tabs & Tools

Guitar World Tabs - Guitar World magazine has partnered with record labels to provide fully legal, ad-supported tabs of well-known songs from the Beatles to Van Halen.