Category: Free Stuff

How to set up a guitar is such a source of worry for beginner guitar players I have uploaded an e-book called Basic Guitar Set-up 101. It is a tutorial by Charles Tauber on how to set up your guitar to maximize your guitar playing experience. Whether you have a steel string or nylon string acoustic guitar or an electric guitar you should download and keep this little tutorial. You can get it here but the link will now be permanently in the left-hand column.

And here is a video on setting up an electric guitar . . .

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Well, not really, these sites have been around for a while but I do not think I have mentioned them before.

Guitar Tools: A Compendium of Remarkable Resources for Guitarists is a Squidoo lens which will help you to immerse yourself in the world of guitar players. It will probably inspire you to lift your level of practice; it is that kind of place. Go over and bookmark it now and go back and enjoy it when you have an hour to spare.

Musiccentre.co.uk has a great collection of free guitar books available in PDF form. The titles include:
Caged Chord System
Pentatonic and Relative Modes for 5 Pentatonic Positions
Chord Method
42 Chord Melody Arrangements
Pentatonic Guitar Magic
The Basic Jazz Guitar Chord Book
Pentatonic Ideas for Improvising
Manuscript Neck Diagrams for Chords
Also included is a beginner’s book on guitar basics
Get your guitar e-books here.

Good news for everybody who slaves over sound files trying to learn to play guitar music from the original artist’s records. Quicktime has a speed control which lets you slow down the music without altering the pitch. Once you have a file playing, click on Window>Show A/V Controls and you’ll find a slider for controlling the speed. Here’s the Quicktime download link. Learning HOW a guitar player moves certainly adds a dimension to seeing and hearing WHAT he plays. If you are trying to learn from videos, quite often the action is just a bit too quick - especially a tricky little intricate bit. So here’s what you do. Start by downloading a video of your favorite virtuoso guitar player picking at the speed of light. YouTube Robot downloads videos from the net. It’s not free but you can get a trial version. Your videos will be saved to your computer as FLV files. Realplayer plays these videos but doesn’t change the speed. What you need now is one of the free programs that converts FLV’s to AVI, MPEG, WMV video files. smallvideosoft.com will do the trick. Slo-Mo Director will slow down your videos so you can see and hear what you want to learn. You can get a trial version or wait till someone puts one out for free. It’s only a matter of time.

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