Fellow Iowan and tutor specialist passed along this link, which includes info on background, well-known players, and the popularity of ukulele.
Widely considered the best step-by-step instruction book available. Recommended for every guitarist, not just classical. Tom uses the original 82-page version.
An interactive chords, scales, and tuner site.
Good way to read the history of banjo. It has resources. If you want to play banjo, you should read this.
A weekly radio show featuring performances and interviews devoted to promoting "the love of classical music with the guitar to the widest possible audience." In Iowa City the show casts on KSUI 91.7 FM Wednesdays at 9:00 PM.
Historical presentation of the evolution of guitar including images.
They're an active group. There's a lot more to mandolin than people think. Mandolin is in a state of becoming after years of lying virtually dormant.
Free online guitar lessons using audio and video. This site also features a tablature section and links to many guitar and music resources.
A coffee table journal for fretted instrumentalists, collectors and builders.
A not-for-profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law communities.
Sooner or later we've all got to fly. This useful info is on a good 10-string guitar site, too.
These folks promote guitar playing and musicianship for young people.
More cool stuff about banjos. Banjo is not only for bluegrass. There's a huge world out there.
Open source music notation software.
A nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing free musical instruments and music instruction to public school children.
Lots of resources, especially Mandozine Radio which plays "mandolin-centric music covering Bluegrass, Newgrass, Jazz, Brazilian, Gypsy, Blues, and Classical" 24/7.
A free metronome tools with instructions.
A nonprofit organization that seeks out promising music students from schools, churches, and community youth programs and links them with teachers who volunteer to teach students on partial or full scholarship.
You've got to know about this place! They have all kinds of instruments. Make it your next pilgrimage.
Free music education software.
There are people who are promoting 10-string guitar, which is a beautiful instrument.
What a wonderful resource for fretted instruments! Banjo, balalaikas, and bouzoukis...and other cousins of the guitar.
A stringed instrument portal featuring all types of information on guitars, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles, dulcimers, etc.
Free classical sheet music.
They call it "your passport to four string paradise."
