Learning Guitar

Here you will find things that will probably be very helpful to your learning more about the guitar. They are organized into lessons, tabs, and articles. Browse them all below. All of this information is either common knowledge or information that I have gleaned from hours spent reading through catalogs and books, fooling around in guitar stores, or in past and present lessons with my absurdly knowledgeable and all-powerful mentor (*wink*). Much much much thanks to him!

A note about tabs: All downloadable tabs available here are in the PowerTab format. If you are unfamiliar with this amazing free-ware program and its tab format go download it NOW. Here's the link: Power-Tab.net

Lessons

Many of the lessons here have supplemental tabs. Many don't have any explanation in the tab itself, and are really only useful in the context of the lesson. PowerTab Editor will allow you to play back the content of each tab, which can be very helpful for musically understanding the material. In any case, it's all there to help you out, so take what you want and leave the rest!

Theory
-Intervals
-Diatonic Stuff: Scales, Chords, Harmony, and Melody :: coming soon!
-Enharmonics :: coming soon!
-Basics of Inversions
-Building Chords :: coming soon!

Beginner
-Introduction to the pentatonic scale [ get lesson tab ]
-Basic scales [ get lesson tab ]
-Guitar Ergonomics and Good Hands :: coming soon!
-Chords To Know [ get lesson tab ]
-Power Chords

Intermediate
-Modes [ get lesson tab ]
-Bending and Vibrato :: coming soon!
-Tapping: Meet Eddie Van Halen :: coming soon!

Advanced
-Introduction to Playing Over Changes :: coming soon!
-Sweeping Things Clean :: coming soon!

Tabs

-Be bloody patient.

Articles

The Encyclopedia
-All About Electrics
-Intro to Pickups :: coming soon!

Guitar Maintenance and Set-Up
-Throwin on New Tires: Proper String Changing :: coming soon!
-Getting Your Action Right :: coming soon!

Shopper's Guide
-Guitar Shopping For Dummies