Free Guitar Music

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Many guitar players are using the internet as a quick and easy means of finding free guitar music. The way of finding guitar music that first occurs to most of us is to turn to a search engine. Although search engines are improving all the time we still often get results that duplicate each other or simply lead to sites with music to sell.

In the category of guitar music I include not only music written using standard musical notation but also tablature, mp3′s, free guitar lessons and video clips. If you use a search engine to look for your guitar music it is always a good idea to read the pages carefully and investigate links thoroughly to find any hidden gems.

Free guitar tabs are still easy to get on the internet despite legal wrangles over copyright. In case you are new to looking for free tabs, there is conflict between musicians who create tabs for published songs. These tabs are the creators’ own work and should not be subject to copyright. The music industry is losing money through sheet music and tab sales so naturally they are trying to find ways to stop guitarists from sharing their tablature. This has resulted in some large tab archives going offline.

There are still some useful tabs available and a list of these can be found at Harmony Central which is a community for musicians.

Musica Viva has a searchable archive of free sheet music for classical and folk music.

If you go to http://www.flamenco-classical-guitar.com/english/mp3_uk.php?menu=classic you will find a list of great guitar music resources mostly oriented towards classical and flamenco style music.

If you have been searching for information on any subject you have probably visited about.com The guitar section of this site will keep you busy for days with free lessons, mp3′s, sheet music and tabs. This is a real gold mine of guitar music that has been online almost as long as the internet has existed.

The ClassicalGuitar Midi Archives is a collection of classical and flamenco guitar midi files featuring the most popular works by the most popular composers for guitar. This site is extremely useful for guitarists who need a quick way of listening to an unfamiliar piece of music before going to the trouble of learning it.

Steve McWilliam’s Guitar Pages has a huge collection of acoustic guitar tabs in the TablEdit format.

My Guitar Solo is a site dedicated to turning guitar players into soloists. Here the guitar music is focused on chords, scales, modes and licks. The basic idea is to provide guitar students with the tools to accelerate their progress as solo guitar players.

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