Awesome Guitar

Useful resources for (beginner) guitar 🎸 players

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Contents

• Community
• Learning
  • Background
  • Guitar Types
  • Courses
  • Practice
  • Theory
• Playing
  • Songs
  • Equipment
• Tools
  • Mobile
  • Websites
• Building

Community

• /r/Guitar - General subreddit about guitars.
• Music: Practice & Theory - Stack Exchange for music.
• UG - Guitar tabs and more.

Learning

Background

• Guitar - General Wikipedia entry about guitars.

Guitar Types

• Acoustic Guitar - Wikipedia entry about acoustic guitars.
• Electric Guitar - Wikipedia entry about electric guitars.
• Guitalele - Wikipedia entry about guitaleles.

Courses

• Wikibooks - Free introductory book.
• Introduction to Guitar - Coursera course.
• Justin Guitar - Free online lessons and great books.

Practice

• /r/guitarlessons - Subbreddit for questions about learning to play guitar.

Theory

• Open Music Theory - Open-source, interactive, online textbook.
• teoría - Tutorials, exercises, reference and articles about music theory.
• /r/musictheory - Subreddit about music theory.

Playing

Songs

• Recommended Guitar Songs - Lists of songs for beginning, intermediate, advanced and expert players.
• /r/weeklyguitarist - Learn a new song every week!

Equipment

• Effects unit - Wikipedia article about effect pedals.
• /r/guitarpedals - Subreddit for everything related to guitar pedals.

Tools

Mobile

• SciTuner - Guitar tuner for iOS.
• Android-Guitar-Tuner - Guitar tuner for Android.
• Drum On! - Drum app for Android.
• Earmouse - Learn intervals and chords on Android.
• Cythara - Instrument tuner for Android.

Websites

• Guitar Dashboard - Interactive fretboard and circle of fifths.
• guitar-tuner - Web-based guitar tuner.
• arpeggio - Chord naming app.
• guitar - Interactive fretboard and tablature editor.
• Guitar Bro - Browser game for learning notes on the guitar.
• GuitarStack - Browser-based effect stack for electric guitars.
• Pedalboard - Online pedalboard for audio manipulation.
• Fretboard for Guitar and Ukulele - Interactive fretboard for guitar and ukulele.
• GuitarToneAdapt - Researched amp & guitar settings behind famous song tones, adapted to your own rig.

Building

• guitarspecs - Build your own electric guitar.
• /r/Luthier - Subreddit for luthiers.