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  • Guitar resources

    The best guitar stuff on the web.
    • Chordbook
      Interactive online chord dictionary with fretboard diagrams
    • Guitar Alchemist
      Free download of a highly interactive guitar chord & scale finder.
    • A Guitar Teacher's Notebook
      Rob Hampton, a Seattle-based guitar teacher, writes an excellent blog. Highly recommended.
    • Denny Sarokin's Lick*tionary
      DVD guitar course for songwriters. Comprehensive and useful.
    • The Guitar Show w/ Andy Ellis
      Former Guitar Player Magazine Senior Editor Andy Ellis hosts a syndicated radio show on all things guitar.
    • Guitar Player Zen
      Articles and resources. Lots of good stuff here.
    • TrueFire
      Subscription service for streaming guitar lessons from big names and lesser known experts.
    • Kent Gunderson - solo jazz guitar
      Instructional videos on solo jazz guitar arranging.
    • Gary Talley's Guitar Playing for Songwriters
      Instructional DVD/book by session ace, songwriter, and original Box Tops guitarist.
  • Nashville and Songwriting

    Resources for songwriters and creative artists here in Nashville.
    • Nashville Songwriters Association Int'l (NSAI)
      The largest and most far-reaching songwriters organization. Everything from workshops, critiques, and pitch-to-publisher sessions to congressional lobbying on behalf of professional songwriters.
    • Music Starts Here
      THE place on the web for newcomers to Nashville to start their musical journey.
    • The Nashville Muse
      Events calendar and resource hub. Essential.
    • The Songwriters Connection
      Susan Tucker publishes an excellent e-newsletter for songwriters, to which I am proud to be a regular contributor. Find her here.
    • The Nashville Number System
      Nashville session ace Chas Williams' excellent book on the NNS.
  • Music Career Education

    Be prepared!
    • ProMusicU
      Music business, performance, and songwriting, in a single intensive day or weekend event.
    • Derek Sivers: the indie guru
      One of the great marketing minds in music.
    • Dream Row
      Online magazine offering education and guidance to aspiring artists, musicians, and music industry pros.
  • General Music Education

    above and beyond guitar-specific resources
    • Metaphors for the Musician
      The finest book on jazz harmony I've ever seen, written by Seattle-based jazz pianist and educator Randy Halberstadt. Piano-focused but highly conceptual while simple AND practical at the same time...a great resource for any instrumentalist.
    • Music Theory for Practical People
      A lighthearted and easy-to-understand introduction to music theory, comprehensive enough for use as a college-level textbook but beautifully and simply explained.
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