Fretsmaster Guitar, Banjo, Bass, Mandolin: Master Your Fretted Instrument

Charts for the twenty most commonly used chords for your guitar! The chart is viewed with the guitar neck pointing straight up and the fretboard facing you. The black dots represent your fingertips. The numbers underneath are your left hand finger numbers, starting with the index or pointer finger (1), and ending with the baby finger, or pinky (4). The top line represents the nut, where the strings cross over to connect to the tuning machines. The horizontal lines that descend from the nut represent the frets, beginning with the first fret.

 A very nice sounding and easy etude that gets you started with the technique for producing major and minor 6th intervals.

 From Carcassi's famous and ancient method. Good for chord recognition and development of chord-changing techniques.

 A reading and playing exercise for beginning guitarists using the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd strings.

 A free download of the first seventeen notes on a guitar with notes, tab, and chord fingering chart.

 Two versions of Ode To Joy for beginning guitarists.

 Learn to read your first eight notes on the first three strings of guitar.

Guitar arrangement of the famous minuet by J. S. Bach.
Download is a .zip file that includes printable guitar tab with color fingering, and a file you can HEAR and visually follow using the free MusEdit Viewer.

 This free player from Yowza Software allows you to play MusEdit files featured on this website in MIDI format. Speed them up, slow them down, practice your guitar along with the MusEdit player! Free download courtesy Yowza Software.

The most common chords in every key, one example of every major and every minor chord, plus major seventh (12 of them) and dominant 7th (12 of them) You will use this chart forever because the chords are set up to be used together! Color charting shows plainly the proper fingerings to use for each chord. You can print and laminate this and put it in the book of guitar knowledge you are building from this website!