Here are some of the necessary tools every guitar player should have. All are free downloads and will make your guitar learning experience easier.
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Metronome
- Metronome Software Features
- Highly accurate beat simulation
- Will not wind down like mechanical Metronomes
- Subdivide beats to emphasize different patterns
- Visual beat indicator bar provides a helpful visual cue
- BPM Tempo Guide chart for each speed of music
- Simple and intuitive interface
- Guitar Tuner with high accuracy
- You can tune guitars with no signal output
- 27 different tuning types
- Modulation of root frequency
- Tuning with midi tones
- Nice and simple environment
Audacity is the best free audio editing tool around. It's an incredibly useful application, whether you're recording live or just editing audio files. Included in the audacity download is the Lame decoder to save your audio files in mp3 format.
Chord chart of the basic chords in each of the major keys. Great for reference for all Guitar players. Chart in PDF format. Also check out the Jamorama Chord Book, popular with beginner guitarists.
Here are 2 videos for stringing a guitar. One video covers the acoustic steel string guitar and the other the classical nylon string guitar. Download the video of choice to your computer as a tool you will eventually need.
Each of the following videos teaches the basic techniques for playing the guitar. Proper finger and thumb positions as demonstrated by guitarist Peter Vogl. Play a very popular chord progression that works for acoustic or electric guitar as demonstrated by guitarist Peter Vogl.
After you've viewed and practiced the above basic techniques, try the complete video-audio lesson on the five most popular strumming patterns every beginning guitarist must know. Download the flv/PDF files (zip file) and play along with guitarist Dan Denley as he demonstrates these strumming techniques.
Practice. Practice, Practice the caged method and play 1000's of songs using this method.
Songs from the Internet. Download a zip file containing a flv file of Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. Also included in the zip file is an mp3 audio file and a simple arrangement in PDF format for you to play guitar and sing along.
Select the correct string gage for both the guitar type and music style you play.
Guitarist Peter Vogl, offers a complete free video lesson library for both the beginner and intermediate guitarist in playing techniques for acoustic and electric guitars and playing styles including country, pop, jazz, metal, blues, bluegrass, and rock.
Guitarist Dan Denley offers a complete free video lesson library for the beginner through serious guitar player covering all the major styles of playing guitar as well as music theory, soloing and creating songs on the acoustic and electric guitars.
