As a guitar player you have probably trawled the internet looking for guitar lessons. Whether or not you want to learn to play guitar for free, your vision probably involved learning songs form tabs as well as getting as much theory and technique exercises you can handle.

Ten years ago a guy named Jon Broderick went looking for websites featuring high quality guitar lessons and, the legend goes, he had so little success, he went and made his own. The outcome was Guitar Tricks, another site that gives you access to their lessons in return for a monthly subscription. Not unlike Jamplay, but Guitar Tricks has been collecting guitar lessons for ten years, plus they have a collection of twenty-four free guitar lessons that you can try. Your free lessons are of the same quality as the lessons you get with your monthly subscription, taught by the same teachers who conduct the lessons for subscribers to Guitar Tricks.

These days four-hundred thousand guitarists take advantage of Guitar Tricks' lessons each month. And no wonder, because there are lessons in any genre you could name - acoustic, rock, metal, country, classical, jazz . . . and you can take lessons in special areas like chords, sound effects, harmonics, bottleneck, popping and guitar tricks. If you are not clear on whether your favorite guitar style has a name, you can simply request lessons based on the music of particular guitar players like Chet Atkins, Duane Allman, Stanley Jordan, Andres Segovia or Jimmy Page.

Your membership of Guitar Tricks gets you full access to a buttload of tutorials, sheet music, video lessons and backing tracks. Not only do you get the benefit of the Guitar Tricks guys' years of archiving guitar lessons but their content is updated every day.

One resource for beginner guitar players I'm always recommending is the collective expertise that you can find in guitar forums. Guitar Tricks has a forum that holds the records of questions and answers between thousands of guitarists. Would you believe there's over two-hundred thousand posts? And not only that, you can also have feedback from the Guitar Tricks teachers on any nagging question your brain can formulate.

Where To Get Free Sheet Music

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Experienced guitar players will know you can get guitar tabs from a number of tab archives and most will also have songs written in standard musical notation but this mostly applies to popular music genres. If you want some free sheet music for classical, folk, jazz or some exotic style of music, you will need to trawl the archives of free sheet music. Here are some of the best places to get free sheet music:

IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library is involved in making a virtual library of all public domain music scores plus compositions from composers who don’t mind making their work available for free.

The Mutopia Project has over 1600 classical compositions from composers like Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart including works for piano, violin, guitar, cello and organ. Mutopia also includes contemporary music from composers offering their works for free.

freesheetmusic.net has a comparatively small collection of free sheet music but has a great library of articles with titles like: Guitarists – Use your neck!, Ten Chords for a Beginner Guitarist, Guitar Effect Pedals – Compression, Guitar Effect Pedals – Distortion, Guitar Effect Pedals – Chorus, Movie — The Mixolydian Scale for the Guitar and Movie — The Locrian Scale for the Guitar. You can also download pdf files of blank sheet music and tab.

freescores.com has nearly fifteen thousand free music scores searchable by instrument, composer or genre. Some music also has midi or mp3 files.

Here is a video tutorial on making your own sheet music from midis using Noteworthy Composer software. If you don’t read sheet music you can use TablEdit which is a free trial download. The only restriction on the trial version is if you make your own tabs you can’t save them so when you convert midis to tab, you will need to print them out as soon as you make them.

More interesting articles and music at find-freesheetmusic.blogspot.com and the Free Sheet Music guide which also features free guitar tabs.

I also just got news of a new free guitar lessons site called Pick Up Your Guitar You will find free video guitar lessons and guitar chord charts and a whole lot of articles and interesting stuff, so check it out if you want to

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