A beginners list of web sites for guitar chords, lyrics with chords, etc.

1. List of interesting guitar web sites: chords, music theory, etc.
2. Guitar maintenance - tuning, changing strings
3. Lists of song lyrics
4. Guitar and song lyrics books
5. Guitar cord and scale books
6. Miscellaneous useful related sites

1. List of interesting guitar web sites: chords, music theory, etc.

• http://chordfind.com/
• http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php
• http://www.guitaralliance.com/guitar_lessons/guitar_chords/common_open_chords.htm
• http://www.guitaralliance.com/guitar_lessons/guitar_chords/how_to_read_a_guitar_chord_diagram.htm

• The following is the guitar chart with hundreds of chords [PDF] THE ULTIMATE GUITAR CHORD CHART II - by Phillip J Facoline http://www.harmony-central.com/pv_obj_cache/pv_obj_id_7BC6FA747982E6CCEDC5B99B5BE58C27B9450900

• 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:
  
  • http://www.musictheory.net/index.html which has a nice music theory course including really neat lessons.
    e.g. shows how 7th chords are formed on a piano in several steps and then plays it! (much more!)
    http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id45_en_uk.html
    

2. Guitar maintenance - tuning, changing strings

• This is an interactive on-line (or downloadable) guitar tunner (Gieson) which will play either tones or single guitar strings for each of the 6 strings. http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/tuner/

• This is another interactive on-line guitar tunner (All-Guitar-Chords) which plays single guitar strings for each of the 6 strings by clicking on the tuning peg. http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/tuner.php

• This is a short movie (Expert Village - Jared) Guitar Basics: Changing Guitar Strings http://youtube.com/watch?v=H2UBWIezsZ0

• This is a short movie (Expert Village - Mike) How to Change Guitar Strings: How to Remove the Guitar Strings from the Bridge http://youtube.com/watch?v=cfZ2HlmVZE0

• This is a short movie (Expert Village - Mike) How to Change Guitar Strings: How to Put the New Guitar Strings in the Bridge http://youtube.com/watch?v=2wvsCZDq4jg

• This is a short movie (Expert Village) How to Change Guitar Strings: How to Stretch and Retune the Guitar Strings http://youtube.com/watch?v=k34TgNfGRFw

• This is a short movie (Gieson) on how to put new strings on your guitar. http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/video/restring/index.html

3. Lists of song lyrics

List of song lyrics for childens songs:

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/music.htm

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

5. Guitar cord and scale books

A book of over 2,000 chords layed out 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