Five Online Guitar Magazines

Personally, nothing beats getting a copy of the Total Guitar or Guitar Techniques and subsequently placing myself in a chair in the sun in the garden or cuddling up on the couch with a cup of coffee. At the same time there is a wealth of magazines available online for free. Here are five of my favorites.

Guitar Player Magazine

One of my old guitar magazines of choice, has a substantial site for the guitar player with lessons, articles, interviews, gear reviews and more. A definite recommend.  Go and visit here >>>

Premier Guitar

A comprehensive guitar magazine with everything you may expect from a modern guitar magazine. Gear reviews, lessons, and more. Go visit the magazine here >>>

A free subscription to the digital version of the magazine is available, including the option to search back issues. A big recommend.

Interactive Guitar

Guitar Interactive is the world’s first fully interactive digital magazine for guitarists the world over – and it’s completely free! Drawing on the resources of Licklibrary – the internationally renowned music teaching resource – GI brings together expert players to analyse the styles and techniques of the world’s best guitarists, which you can see and hear in the hours of video that are in every issue.

An amazing new magazine and a very definite recommendation with a free subscription available here >>>. What appealed especially is the way in which the magazine actually reads like a magazine but on screen.

Total Guitar

One of my favorite magazines to pick up in the shop and read. It comes with a free CD/DVD with further instructions, lessons and play along tracks. Go see the magazine here >>>.

Guitar Techniques

It is through this magazine that I keep myself growing. Monthly lessons that push the beginner as well as the advanced players. Great magazine that comes with a CD/DVD with further information, lessons and sound samples. My favorite.

Go visit the site and magazine here >>>

What are your Favorite Guitar Magazines?

It is impossible I guess to be complete, else Id spend more time browsing and reading that playing. So I limited myself to five of my favorites here. What are some of your favorite music magazines and why?  I look forward to hearing about your recommendations.

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Workshop Improvisation for Beginnners

In June I did a workshop for the New Zealand Modern School of Music on improvisation for beginners. Below are the notes which can also be downloaded from the resources page.

Workshop Improvisation

Tabscout.com a great starting point

It s always great if you come across great resources that help you further. If thee is one I thoroughly recommend for guitar players to put in their favorites it would be tabscout.com.

On this site you will find a large collection of tabs , PowerTabs and Textual Guitar Tabs that to see or download. The site claims to be aware of well over 400,000 tabs and  must say so far I have nor bee disappointed. The search options are good and easy to use and even though sometimes there may be slight mistakes in the tabs provided by contributors it is a great starting point and time saver especially if, like me you like to teach using the music my students love and would like to play as a starting point.

For such an approach tabscout is a perfect starting point. Look for the tabs or chords of a song, there is a good chance you’ll find it there.Check it out yourself.

Some online (print music/lead sheet) resources for music ministry and worship music

Getting the sheet music together for your music ministry and not breaking the law can be a bit of a challenge. Personally I think that a lot of the songs can be written down straight from the album almost if the music provided is limited to lyrics and chords.

Many use the CCLI site, for New Zealand that is http://www.ccli.co.nz/.

Other sources you may want to consider are:

• http://hymncharts.com/
• http://www.praisecharts.com/
• http://wordmusicnow.com/
• http://pwarchive.com/
• http://www.lifewayworship.com/

You may, especially when you are a guitar player, E-chords which has a lot of free download materials available.You will need to register for the site though. For the individual musician try “free sheet music” plus the name of the song or when you are a guitar player the same but for instance use the key search “free guitar tabs” and the name of the song.

My best advice however is to just train yourself in getting the chords together yourself. Most of the time the songs are not that incredibly complex and the more you do the quicker you get at it.