Links to Guitar and Music Sites

 Favorite Guitar Sites:


Ultimate Guitar Tabs:
Excellent site for obtaining guitar tablature - with over 300,000 searchable tabs

Guitar Scales:
Great guitar site, with hundreds of interactive scales, chords, and progressions, guitar licks, an online metronome, a tone tuner, and links to more guitar sites.

Musician's Friend:
Online music store. Guitars and other musical instruments, sound equipment,  PA systems, accessories, etc. Good customer service, usually ships fast. I have been ordering from this site for years.

Sheet Music Plus:
Great source for purchasing guitar tab and any kind of sheet music
 
Twelve Benefits of a Music Education: The Children's Music Worksop presents "Music Education Online".  A list of twelve benefits of learning music. Music helps you in many areas of life, learning and education. This site also includes music resources and links. 

History of Rock n' Roll:
 Website devoted to telling a historical interpretation of rock n' roll music.

History of Rock n' Roll: Wikipedia article on the history of rock n' roll.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum: Official site of the rock n' roll hall of fame.

GuitarFox: 
Quick access to the best guitar sites on the web.

Lick Library:
 Guitar lessons, tutorials, video lessons, jam trax, music forums, store, and more. Membership fee required.

About.com for Guitar:
Resources for all levels of guitar players.

Guitar.com:
Excellent resources for guitarists of all levels.

Guitar Resource Center:
Great resource for guitarists! Guitar reviews, equipment reviews, chords, scales, links to other guitar resources

Free Online Metronome:
Use a metronome for free right online. Adjust the tempo and beats by moving your cursor and clicking your
mouse. Choose from three different types.

Guitar Site: Resource for guitarists with lessons, tabs, discussions, and more.

My Guitar Space: Create your own profile, communicate with other guitarists, find tabs and other guitar resources.

Play Guitar: An online guitar magazine site for beginning guitarists

My Guitar Solo: Scales, licks, tricks, study schedule, and more.

JGuitar: Great site for beginners and resources for all guitar players. Chord diagram calculator, scale calculator, Tab Mapper, Harmonizer, Chord and Scale Dictionaries.

C-A-G-E-D System Explained
Learn the CAGED System for Scales and Chords

Teoria - Music Theory
Good site to learn music theory

 Music Theory
Another good site to learn music theory

History of the Guitar Wiki:
Wikipedia article: History of the Guitar

A Brief History of the Guitar:
Informative history of the guitar

Guitar Handbook:
General information about guitars, including a brief history

The Indie Bible:
Excellent resource for Independent (Indie, that is) musicians. "Thousands of places to promote your music" - Independent Musician's Empowerment Resource Guide

Bob Baker.com: Indpendent musician's promotion guru!

Indie Mundo: Resource for Independent ("Indie") musicians where they can distribute and sell their music, download other "indie" music and CDs and interact with fans

Musicians.com:  Upload music and videos, create events, connect with your fans

Guitarists.net: Free resources for guitarists. Including: guitar tab, scales, chords, lessons, and guitar learning software

Musician.com: Online music store

Mary4Music: Independent musicians resources

Music Industry Resources:  This site is full of resources for independent ("indie") musicians. Find out how to sell your music, promote your band, make killer press kits, find out about jobs and careers in the music industry, learn how to promote and sell your band merchandise, learn how to get gigs, and much more!

Unsigned Musicians: Resource for unsigned musicians. Buy and sell your music. Create a profile . Find and build a fan-base.

Minnesota Musicians: "The intention of this page is to connect local Artists with industry resources such as Record Labels & Studios, CD Pressing and Distributors,  Artist Management, Agents/Talent Buyers,  Promotion and Publicity, Radio Stations, etc."

CD-Baby: Buy and sell your independent music here


Indie Band Survival Guide:
Excellent source for "Indie" (that is, independent) musicians 





More Tab Sites:

Fretplay: Has a searchable archive of tab, plus guitar instruction and more

Top 100 Tab Sites: Lists the top 100-rated guitar tab sites based on popularity

911 Tabs: Searches other sites to help you find guitar tab on the web

Guitar Tab Universe: Large database of searchable guitar tab

Guitar Tab World: Guitar tab site with about 100,000 tabs and searchable database

GuitareTab: Searchable guitar tab site with thousands of tabs

BL Guitar.com: Tab site with searchable database

Metal Tabs: A fairly large collection of Heavy Metal Guitar tabs

Tab Heaven: Guitar Tab site with lessons, tabs, and  tips

Guitar Masta: Guitar Tab site.

Tabs Database: A site with a lot of tabs, especially newer music





Guitar Store Sites:


Al's Music: Online site for Al's Music store located in East St. Cloud off East St. Germaine Street (near Val's Hamburgers). Cool store! Great stuff! Excellent staff! Great Customer Service!

Guitar Center: Online site of one of the largest guitar retailers in the world. There are Guitar Center stores across the United States.  The nearest Guitar Center Store to St. Cloud that I know of is in Maple Grove. There are also ones in Edina and Roseville.


Sweetwater: Sweetwater.com sells pro audio equipment, including pro tools machines and interfaces,
as well as instruments


Willie's American Guitars:  Online site for Willie's Guitar store located at 254 Cleveland Ave So, in St. Paul, MN. They have a large selection of Martin Acoustic and Vintage guitars. Cool place!

Bridge of Harmony: Great guitar and musical equipment store. Located in downtown St. Cloud, MN and also in Brainerd, MN.

Cheap Electric Guitars: Fairly inexpensive electric guitars. Some really good deals, some not so really good deals. Do your research, comparison shop, read guitar reviews, and find the real best deals.

The Trading Musician: Buy, sell, and trade, new use, and vintage musical guitars and equipment 

Guitar Plaza: Online guitar and musical instrument retailer. Guitar stores located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Charlotte North Carolina.  

Martin Guitar Company Official Website:  Official site of C.F. Martin & Co. founded in 1833. Producer of some of the greatest acoustic guitars ever made.

Fender Guitars Official Site:  Official site for Fender guitars. Find all the newest models, as well as the traditional and vintage ones.


Gibson Official Site: Official site for Gibson Guitars

Taylor Guitars Official Site: Official site for Taylor Guitars.

Guild Guitars Official Site:  Official site for Guild Guitars

Washburn Guitars: Official site for Washburn Guitars

Gretsch Guitars Official Site: Official site for Gretsch Guitars

Breedlove Guitars Official Site: Official site for Breedlove Guitars

Seagull Guitars Official Site:  Official site for Breedlove Guitars

Alvarez Guitars Official Site: Official site of Alvarez Guitars.



Guitar Magazines Online:

Guitar World Magazine: Articles, lessons, forums, tabs, blogs, contests, videos, and more

Guitar Player: Magazine for acoustic and electric guitarist, featuring lessons, forums, gear, and articles.

Mel Bay's Guitar Sessions: Free online magazine from one of the all-time leaders in music instruction.


There are a ton of guitar magazines out there, both online and off. Just do a search on Google, Yahoo, or your favorite search engine, and you will get many to select from. Some offer more online for free than others. Some you need to pay a subscription to get all the features. Next to you visit Barnes and Noble or Borders or another major book or magazine store, check out the selection of guitar magazines.




Musicians Forums:

Linked Musicians: Network of "live performing" musicians. A site where musicians can go to find gigs and venues can go to find musicians.

Musicians Forums: A site devoted to musicians communicating with other musicians. Many topics covered.

Musicians Forum: Musicians discussion forum.


Omgili Forum Directory: Directory of indie music forums.

Musician's Tech Central: Independent musician's guide to recording, performing live, and technical questions and answers regarding audio equipment.


Harmony Central: Musicians community forum. Discussion forum for musicians of all kinds.

E-bay Musicians Discussion Forum: Discussion forum for musicians and music lovers on ebay. Advice on buying music and musical instruments, tips on what items are worth, questions about music-related things.

Musicians.com: Discusion forum. Bulletin board-type site where musicians ask each other questions, answer questions, give and receive tips and information, and talk about just about anything music

Hitsquad Musicians Network: Musicians forum that focuses on music software, but also covers other issues of interest to musicians


Professional Musicians Referral: Site where professional musicians meet to look for new band members, form a band, find gigs for your band. Membership fee.

Musician's Network Portal: Music forums, music news, software downloads, tips and tools.

AudioStreet: Musicians forum. Covers several genres of music.



Finding Other Musicians:

Bandmix: A way for musicians to communicate and hook-up with other musicians.


Find-A-Musician: A musicians wanted classified ads. If you are looking to form a band, or need a musician try this site.


Local.com: Find musicians in your geographical area. In the search field type in "musicians" and then type in your location (city/state)


Musician Forest:. A Find and meet local musicians and bands. Free service.


I Want To Jam: A place to look for other musicians. A free listing service for musicians, bands, and venues in the U.S.A. and Canada


Guitar World Article:  "7 Ways to Meet Other Musicians"


Musicians-in-your-city: Central register of musicians in the U.S.A.


Indaba Music: Find musicians. Indaba is an online networking and collaboration platform for musicians and music professionals.


Band Forger: Form a band. Register for free and search for musicians to form a band.


Musicians Available: Enter yourself in the database and then search for musicians in your area.


MySpace: Go to MySpace Get Local and search for musicians in your area. While you are at it set up your own musical artist profile, so people can find you.


Craigslist: Search for local musicians on Craigslist. Search your local geographic area and search for musicians. Try "services" "personals" and other search categories. You can also use craigslist to find gigs and buy and sell instruments.

Note: There are many ways to find local musicians: You may place an ad in your local newspaper, look in the classified sections for bands seeking musicians, obtain "local scene" readers that cater to arts and entertainment and look for bands seeking musicians or other musicians seeking other musicians, call local music schools or organizations, read and post bulletins in local music stores, ask the people who work at the music stores if they know of any one looking for other musicans, put up flyers at schools, universities, and places of business, ask around, go to local live music shows and ask members of the bands. You could ask  your friends or family members if they know anyone that plays an instrument and wants to join a band. Spread the word out that you are either seeking to start or join a band. Use all the resources you can think of to find exactly what you seek. Look around on MySpace or Facebook, or any number of online social networks. Chat online with other musicians and ask them if they know of any. It may take some time (weeks, even months, but pursue it with determination and find exactly what you are looking for. Don't settle for a band you don't like. Just keep looking until you find the best fit for you!

 


Where to Purchase Music:

CD-Baby: Great source to buy "Independent" musicians' music. You may also sell your own music here.

Amazon: Still one of the largest online retailers of audio, video, and books. Purchase music and sign up for a program where you can sell your own music.

Rhapsody: You pay a monthly subscription. Purchase songs, listen to songs, watch music videos, look at photos, sell your own music.

CD Universe: Millions of CDs, videos, and video games available for purchase.

I-Tunes: Apple Computer's online music store. Get tons of songs to load up your i-pod, i-phone, or Mac.


MP3: Sign-up for an account and dowload MP3s to your computer, cell phone, or MP3 player.

AND YOU CAN ALWAYS BORROW MUSIC FROM YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY!!!




Where to Get Free Music:

Yes, there are still places out there where you can download free music. You just have to be careful and do a little research to make sure you are playing by the "rules" and aren't breaking any laws. Copyright laws can be confusing in this day and age. There are ways that companies can license music so as not to infringe copyright laws. Just be careful and know what you are doing. There are a ton of streaming radio stations out there. AOL has AOL radio, which streams live music. There are also sites that offer free music and other things through "file-sharing". I know many people who have taken advantage of "file-sharing" and nothing usually comes of it. However, there are some rare cases, where money-grabbing record companies, licencees, and copyright owners have gone after "file-sharers". The idea of "file-sharing" and giving and recieving copyrighted material on the Internet continues to be a controversial subject in the music industry. Only time will tell what will come of it. In the meantime: be careful and know what you are doing. 




Musicians' Sites:

Crazy Dog: This is my personal music website. Please visit for a while. You will love it! It was made for you to enjoy!

Chet Atkins: Chet Atkins "Mr. Guitar" Official Website. Guitar Legend. He helped make the guitar a primary instrument in country and other music genres. His music inspires me and many others.

Merle Travis: A true pioneer at fingerpicking guitar. A guitar legend. From the country music Hall of Fame Page.

Jerry Reed: Incredible guitar picker. Among his famous songs were "Guitarman", "Amos Moses", "The Claw" and "East Bound and Down". Guitar Legend. 

Leo Kottke: Leo Kottke's, a great guitar instrumentalist, website which includes tour schedule, recordings, printed music, contact information and more.

Tommy Emmanuel: Official site of the superb Australian instrumental guitarist.
 

Woody Guthrie: Prolific and very influential songwriter snd guitarist. Wrote, sang, and played for the poor, downcast, broken-hearted, and average American, expecially during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Influenced folk music for years to come.

Hank Williams Sr.: Country Music Legend. Prolific songwriter.

"Mississippi" John Hurt: Blues Legend. Inspired many fingerpicking guitarists.

John Lee Hooker: Official website of the great blues singer/songwriter/guitarist.

Chuck Berry: Pioneer of rock n' roll music in the mid 1950s. Sped up 12 bar-blues and used a 12-bar shuffle and double-stop licks to create a fun, exciting new sound, that soon came to be called rock n' roll. Touring the world with his music, he proves that "you're never too old to rock n' roll."

Elvis Aaron Presley: Rock n' Roll legend. Changed American culture for decades.

The Beatles: Legendary four-piece rock band from Liverpool England. They led the "British Invasion" of America in the mid-1960s and helped create a new rock culture and sound.

Rolling Stones: Legendary British rock band that and made music that spanned generations. They will soon be entering their fifth decade as a band. 

Led Zeppelin: Great rock n' roll band from England that experimented with different styles of music and pioneered an edgier side of rock that helped create the foundation for a new subgenre of rock: heavy metal.

Jimi Hendrix: Jimi revolutionized electric guitar playing, using distortion, feedback, and effects to create a loud, intense, psychadelic sound. He sparked a revolution in the experimentation with the electric guitar and the sounds that could be produced form it. He is considered by many as the greatest guitarists of all time.

Eric Clapton: Official site of the blues and rock guitar legend.

Bob Dylan: Minnesota's own folk-legend. One of the greatest lyricist of our time.

John Mellencamp: Official site of the classic rocker from the heartland USA (Indiana).

Tom Petty: Over 30 years providing great classic rock. Still rockin!

Joe Satriani: Guitar master.

Journey: Great rock n' roll band!

AC/DC: Classic rock at it's greatest! Simple, powerful, hard beat, rock!

Bruce Springsteen: He's still the Boss!




More musicians links to come!





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