Reference links
This can be a starting place for further research into playing the guitar. Many of these links were used for reference while creating the content for this site. The links are organized into the respective sections on this site, however most sites offer a well rounded approach to learning the guitar. Feel free to roam around these sites - but don't forget to book mark this page before leaving.
General guitar sites
Learn How to Play Guitar | Free Guitar Lessons Online
- GuitarPlayerWorld.com
Justin Guitar - Free guitar lessons
Proper posture
http://members.aol.com/legnani/seat.htm
- long winded technical description of
sitting with a classical guitar
http://www.guitarnoise.com/guitar/classical/20000801.html
- another long winded technical description
on how to sit with a guitar
http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag66/dear66.html#Proper%20Playing
- quick advice on guitar posture / stretching
http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa071200c.htm
- brief article on how to hold the guitar
http://www.northwestern.edu/musicschool/links/projects/guitar/openingGuitarist.html
- list of quicktime VR videos on posture
http://www.guitarprinciples.com/Guitar_Technique/sitting.htm
- how to sit with the guitar (several variations)
Left hand Technique
http://www.guitarists.net/lessons/detail.cfm/pages/right_and_left_hand_technique:_part_ii.html
http://www.guitarists.net/lessons/detail.cfm/pages/right_and_left_hand_technique:_part_iii.html
- good left hand technique (series)
http://www.acr.net.au/~speedy/guitar_tips.html#Your%20fretting%20fingers%20(Single%20notes)
- brief written technique instructions
http://www.guitarprinciples.com/Guitar_Technique/left%20hand%20shots.htm
- nice pictures and articles on technique
http://www.mattyw.com/lessons/page4.html
- interesting article on finger stretching
http://www.northwestern.edu/musicschool/links/projects/guitar/leftHandPosture.html
- Quicktime VR piece which shows
pictures of proper left hand technique
http://www.guitarprinciples.com/Guitar_Technique/2nec%20left%20hand%20pos.htm
- pictures and videos on how to put the left hand on the guitar
Holding the pick
http://www.daddydoodle.com/holdpick.html
- Short quick - bad pics
http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa071200g.htm
- Brief - one pic
http://www.shimmyo.com/guitar.php
- One paragraph mong scale info
http://www.guitarbuzz.com/gettingready.htm
- brief line in their FAQ
http://www.cleverjoe.com/articles/guitar_pick.html
- info on the guitar pick itself
how to choose a pick
http://www.guitarprinciples.com/Guitar_Technique/Slant.htm
- nice little article with pictures
Tune the guitar
http://www.learn2.com/08/0853/0853.asp
- nice long well done article on tuning
http://www.daddydoodle.com/how2tune.html
- small article
http://www.stagepass.com/tuning.html
- advanced article discusing tuning
http://www.willlandrum.com/tuning.shtml
- simple article on tuning
http://www.radioyur.com/les10.html
- pretty decent article on tuning guitar
Parts of the guitar
http://www.gtrdan.com/gtrparts.htm
http://www.gtrdan.com/gtrprts/parts_of_the_guitar.htm
- good old guitar dan with pics and articles
http://www.howstuffworks.com/guitar1.htm
- parts of guitar -- part of larger
article on how sound works
http://www.zentao.com/guitar/anatomy/index.html
- very small pic showing parts
http://www.guitarsite.com/classicgitbits.htm
- classical guitar anatomy
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/guitar/anatomy.html
- acousic guitar anatomy
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/f/p/fpm108/glw/lessons/lesson1a.htm
- small article as well
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/f/p/fpm108/glw/lessons/lesson1a.htm
- detailed pic of acoustic guitar
http://www.supersonic.net/guitar/lessons/lesson-28.htm
- pics of electric guitar and
brief write ups on their function
http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/guitar.html
- quick article on parts
Acoustic vs. Electric
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question701.htm
- brief well written article on the differences between
acoustic and electric guitars
http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa072401a.htm
- more of a discussion on which type of
guitar playing a student should learn
http://www.firstguitar.com/Articles/eora.html
- again a discussion on helping students decide
which type of guitar to play
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/991018/6.shtml
- differences in how they are played
http://www.chrisbsmusic.com/guitbuytip.html
- more advice on which type of instrument
to buy
http://www.merde.org/guitar/choose.html#eora
- brief article comparison
Brief sound intro
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/guitar/intro_engl.html
- the mother load (maybe) - specific articles
on how sound works for guitar
http://www.howstuffworks.com/guitar.htm
- incredible article on how sound from the guitar works
http://users.chariot.net.au/~gmarts/ampsmain.htm
- quirky article / site on how guitar
amplifiers
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Psych289/Biotutorials/17/intro.shtml
- how the ear works - advanced article
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mmedia/waves/edl.html
- sound waves and the ear
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/sound/u11l5b.html
- science on guitar strings vibration
a little on harmonics
Guitar tablature explanations
http://www.musiciansnews.com/guitars/music_theory/78/how_to_read_guitar_tab_1.shtml
- article on standard ASCII tab
http://www.coastalfog.net/flatpick/tablature/explaintab.html
- article on ASCII tab
http://www.magma.ca/~robc/TAB/TAB.html
- large article on how to write and read ASCII tab
http://www.musicnet.com.au/lessons/guitar/how_to_read_tablature.asp
- how to read tablature (general article)
http://www.olga.net/faq/tabbing.php
- OLGA weighs in on the TAB issue
http://www.willlandrum.com/readtablature.shtml
- more on how to read tablature
http://www.daddydoodle.com/readtab.html
- nice succinct article on tab
http://www.folkofthewood.com/page130.htm
- more for guitar tablature
http://www.cyberfret.com/reading/internet-tab/index.php
- awesome article on guitar tab
http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211.web.stuff/billington/main.htm
- the physics of the aucustic guitar
Scales and such
http://www.arnoldjazz.com/workshop/SCALES/scale_intro_st.html
- intro to scales (some technique)
Guitar Chord chart explanations
http://www.daddydoodle.com/chordex.html
- nice succinct article on chord charts
http://users.csionline.net/~crystal/guitarworld/howcho.html
- read chord charts with pics
http://rock-tabs.com/reading_chord_charts.html
- ASCII guitar chord charts
http://guitaralliance.com/guitar_lessons/guitar_chords/how_to_read_a_guitar_chord_diagram.htm
- nice article on reading chord charts with pics
http://www.zartmo.com/guitarlibrary/howdiagram1.html
- short cute cartoony guitar charts intro
http://www.zentao.com/guitar/tab/
- whole series on guitar neck - near bottom
of page are chord diagrams
http://www.gregsguitar.com/read_diagrams.html
- alternate way of representing chords
http://www.playmusicfree.com/music_lessons/html/guitar_lessons/chord_howto.htm
- another simple page with explanations
Interesting Articles / sites
http://music.deanza.fhda.edu/dunn/Music14bc_Practicelog.htm
- guitar practice log (nice)
http://www.olga.net
- the (O)n(l)ine (G)uitar (A)rchive (OLGA)
huge depository of tablature / lessons
http://www.opgc.com/string2.htm
- How to change strings