Educational Resources

ABC Learn Guitar: free beginner guitar lessons, plus tips and resources on buying a guitar, songwriting, recording, and creating a music career

Access Rock: a free interactive guitar site with in-depth and easy-to-use lessons, monthly live artist lessons and interviews, biweekly chats, forums, and gear giveaways

Acoustic Guitar Lessons: dedicated to helping you learn authentic acoustic fingerstyles online. No CD's or books to order and wait for. You could start learning the art of acoustic fingerpicking minutes from now

Adventures in Modern Recording: a 2-part video series hosted by legendary record producer and engineer Eddie Kramer (Stones, Beatles, Hendrix, Zeppelin), that teaches you how to set up your own project studio, use all of the latest in recording gear, get the best out of microphones, mixing consoles, processing equipment and much more

Applause: tips, tricks, and secrets that will launch your music performance or production career

Audio Institute of America: a licensed school, with successful working graduates, offering a home-study course in recording engineering and studio building, for musicians, producers, and live sound mixers

Avalon Guitar: offering the world's finest guitar CDs, and instructional books and videos all at discount prices

Audio Courses: online audio recording and production education. Accredited diploma available

Audio Preparation Study Guide - Audio Learn Books: highly effective test preparation tool for a number of postsecondary College admissions tests including MCAT DAT PCAT SAT Microbiology Pharmacy or CPA

Bassplace.com: online catalogue of books, CD's, videos, DVD's and software for bassplayers

Bill Powelson's School of Drums: offers free online drumset course -- for absolute beginners through ultra-advanced

Bob Rose Vocal Training & Coaching: offering the book "Contemporary Singing Techniques," an easy to follow singing method developed by this internationally-known vocal coach/instructor from Hollywood

Britchops: a multimedia home study drum course for beginning drummers that provides everything you need to learn to play today’s popular drumming styles; without the need of a personal tutor.

Castalia Communications: music education posters and products that work like road maps to harmony. Handy references show you how to play any chord or scale, in any key, anywhere on the instrument

Dana Rasch's Beyond Chops: "the real guitar method"

Cyberfret.com: free online guitar lessons using audio and video. This site also features a tablature section and links to many guitar and music resources

CyberfretBass.com: free online electric bass lessons using audio and video. This site also features a tablature section and links to many bass and music resources

Carolina Escalona: piano, keyboard and guitar teacher, available all around California; her site features new sheet music and MIDI files every month

Deep Blue Sound: commercial recording studio facility providing nationally accredited sound engineering and music technology courses up to degree level located in Plymouth, UK

DrumGroove: free drum lessons, pictures of famous drummers and educational books

Drum Place: online catalogue of books, CD's, videos, DVD's, software for drummers

Earplane - Online Eartraining: a free, multilingual ear training site. Registered users can work on their own, or compete with others on hiscore sums. Private log pages. Exercises range from beginner through expert

Escuela de Música de Buenos Aires: Latin America's leading school of music, recording techniques, music production and multimedia production

EZFolk.com: an instructional site for banjo (bluegrass and clawhammer) and folk guitar. More than 300 pages of tablature, tutorials, and more

Forever Drumming: specializing in educating drummers with the finest drumming books, videos, transcription books, and book/CD packs

FreeGuitarVideos.com: free guitar lessons, free guitar videos, free guitar lessons online, and free guitar tabs with Peter Vogl for the Let's Jam CD

The Green Book Of Songs By Subject: new music reference book locates songs and album tracks by themes and concepts, representing all genres and eras, with listings including titles, artists, discographies and labels

Guitar Instruction: info, lessons, philosophy and a comprehensive instructional video for players of all styles and levels

Guitar Lessons Pro: information and resources that will boost your guitar playing up to another level

GuitarLizard.com: a fun place for everyone that wants to learn to play the guitar; with special attention paid to insuring that even the most novice player gets the valuable information they need

Guitar Mentor: Revolutionary guitar instruction, and scale/tonality calculation software. "NOT tired old tablature. This is quite remarkable"

Guitar Noise: the online guitar college

Guitar Place: online catalogue of books, CD's, videos, DVD's, software and discussion forum for guitar players

Guitar Principles: showing players how to reach their next level of playing ability, by teaching the principles of correct practice for guitar. Get 10 things you can do right now to become a better guitar player

Guitar Secrets: lead guitar made easy and free guitar lessons

GuitarVision: learn to play guitar music and your favorite songs quickly with animated online guitar lesson software

Horn Place: online catalogue of books, CD's, videos, DVD's, software for brass and reeds

International Guitar Seminars: spend a relaxing, yet stimulating week learning and sharing music with new friends while you expand your guitar playing and musical creativity

Joe The Guitar Man: dedicated to making guitar playing much easier to understand, and to making you a great guitar player

Maximum Musician: offering help for guitarists and others. Learn about improvising, playing by ear, how to stay motivated, and more

MCSE Certification: ensure success in all MCSE certification exams with Whizlabs

MetalTabs.com: a guitar, bass, and drum metal tabs archive

Modern Recording Techniques: covers the basics, with everything you need to fully understand the tools and day-to-day practices of music recording and production, as well as Web and digital audio (MP3, media streaming), hard-disk recording and more

Money Chords Guitar Pages: a large collection of free guitar, guitar chord, and chord progression lessons

Mountain Studios: home of Uncle Tim's acoustic and electric guitar instruction books. Chords, scales, keys, theory, music, songs and more

Music and You: provides on line piano instruction, using a unique method that completely guides the students. Learn to play piano on line for Beginning through advanced students

Music Books Plus: books, videos, and audio cassettes and CD-ROMs on music, business, audio, recording, songwriting, technique, video, multimedia, computers, Internet, broadcast. Over 4,000 titles. Secure credit card ordering available. Free e-mail update service and printed catalog

MusicGoals by Eye & Ear: ear training, sight-reading, and music theory. Study piano, guitar, violin, viola, cello, bass, banjo, lute, or ukulele. Windows software with optional MIDI support

Piano Place: online catalogue of books, CD's, videos, DVD's, software for piano players

Play Guitar Lesson: home of The Guitar Guide - designed to help anyone learn to play the guitar quickly and easily!

Play Jazz: online catalogue of books, CD's, videos, DVD's, software for jazz players

PlayPiano.com: piano lessons on video that get you where you want to go -- fast!"

School Without Walls: "the only way to become a master musician by studying at home"

Sell Your Music: the book that teaches independent musicians how to make and sell their own music online. For songwriters and composers who are tired of waiting for the record companies to give them their big break

The Singers' Workshop: L.A. vocal coach, Lis Lewis, provides info, classifieds, chat, products and news for pop singers plus her e-zine, the Angel City Voice

Slow Gold: become a better player or singer quickly by learning directly from the legendary performances that are already in your CD collection, with SlowGold and SlowBlast, a Windows software slows down recorded music with incredible fidelity, so you can hear and learn every note

Sounds Simple: professional instructional videos for sound reinforcement and enhancing your audio skills

Sound Recording Training: courses in recording techniques and music technology. Hosted by the University of Teesside's CIRA Project at their fully equipped computer lab and tutored by Studio 64

Theory Lessons free music theory lessons for guitar and bass players. Lessons covering the chromatics, pentatonics, modal theory, chords, harmony and melody and much more. Lessons by Dave Allen are taught using plain english and can be informative for beginners and advanced players alike

Teoria: music theory on the Web with FAQ, interactive exercises, reference, software, articles and links

Watch and Learn Video Series: music instruction videos, books with CDs, DVDs, tabs, tablature, and lessons for learning on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, rock guitar, blues guitar, keyboards, harmonica, drums, snare drum, banjo, mandolin, violin, and fiddle

Write Hit Songs: a computer animated songwriting teaching aid that teaches arrangements in music

You Can Play Guitar: Billboard top rated instructor Scott Morris offers Free online guitar video lessons, DVD lessons, guitar tablature, sheet music, online music store and guitar forum