Tools Of The Trade

This section provides practical resources for the guitar player. You'll find printable resources, downloads of useful programs, and links to helpful resources on the Internet.

Printer Resources:

Blank Tablature

You can print out this page of blank tablature to tab out your own compositions or to transcribe your favorite song. Click Here!

Blank Chord Diagrams

Make a hard copy of those hard to remember chords, or graph out chord progressions with this printable page of blank chord diagrams. Click Here!

Common Open Chords Chart

This is a printable chord chart of twenty of the commonly used open chords. Click Here!

Chord Reference Chart

This is a non-graphical look at just about every chord for the guitar under the sun (minus sharp or flat chords). It provides a handy chord reference.Click Here!

...more printer resources in the Printer Zone!

Downloads:

Metronome

This a simple metronome for your computer. Use it to practice riffs at speeds that are comfortable for you. Click Here!

Classical Guitar Transcriptions

Here you can download 56 Classical Guitar Transcriptions in the power tab editor format. They are in a zipped folder, so you'll have to extract them with a program like Winzip.

Links:

Riff-O-Matic

Play along with your favorite riffs! Includes looping audio samples, complete transcriptions, and video!

SlowGold

SlowGold is a software program that slows down (without losing the pitch) and loops songs from a CD or audio file. It's great tool for transcribing songs. Click Here!

Auto Transposer

This helpful little site that will auto-transpose chord progressions for you. Check it out!

Chord Inversion.com

This is an on-line tool in which you enter in a chord and with the press of a button you can see all the possible inversions. Click here

Power Tab Editor

Create your own tablature with this easy to use tablature editor for Windows. Click here

 

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