A beginners list of web sites for guitar chords, lyrics with chords, etc.
This is an ongoing collection of a few links to interesting web site
(and a few books) of guitar chords and song lyrics with chords. Some of
this are more useful for beginners and some for more advanced players.
The web site will be revised from time to time.
- List of interesting guitar web sites: chords, music theory, etc.
- Guitar maintenance - tuning, changing strings
- Lists of song lyrics
- Guitar and song lyrics books
- Miscellaneous useful related sites
1. List of interesting guitar web sites: chords, music theory, etc.
- This following is a useful short table of guitar chords by key (pick a
key and you only play the chords or subset of them in the key). Most common
are the 3 principal chords, then you can add some of the minors, and finally
at times the alternate chords.
http://www.mmissary.com/guitar~1.gif
- Here is an interesting guitar web site with hundreds of songs
with chord names AND chord fingering and great links to other guitar
web sites
http://theguitarguy.com/
(suggested by J.L.)
It has:
- Many songs with chord names
- Chords fingering using a 6 string fret numbering convention where it
tells you the frets and strings, but you figure out which fingers to use
- A nice set of links to good guitar web sites.
Some of the cool links include:
2. Guitar maintenance - tuning, changing strings
Tuning your guitar
Changing Guitar strings
3. Lists of song lyrics
4. Guitar and song lyrics books
A nice overall book for beginners and more experienced guitar players:
The Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer (2006 edition).
http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Handbook-Ralph-Denyer/dp/0679742751
A nice book of songs you can sing with lyrics and chord names:
Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook (Spiral-bound)
by Peter Blood
http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Up-Singing-Group-Songbook/dp/0962670472
A book of over 2,000 chords layed on in a useful way:
The Everything Guitar Chords: Rock-Blues-Jazz-Country-Classical-Folk: Over 2,000 Chords for Every Style of Music
by Mark Schonbrun
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Guitar-Chords-Rock-Blues-Jazz-Country-Classical-Folk-Every/dp/1593375298/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1208990144&sr=11-1
5. Miscellaneous useful related sites
Tricks for How to Memorize a Song:
http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Memorize-a-Song&printable=yes
Free (open source) computer audio recording and editing software:Audacity
http://http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
A few on-line music stores:
E-mail contact:
lemkingroup@yahoo.com
Web-site:
http://www.geocities.com/lemkingroup
Revised: May 10, 2008
