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This man has created his own guitar textbooks from beginners to advanced. He has also transcribed music for guitar. Very useful resource to purchase guitar solo and ensemble music

This man has created his own guitar textbooks from beginners to advanced. He has also transcribed music for guitar. Very useful resource to purchase guitar solo and ensemble music

This sites contains downloadable links that contain very lucid and practical curricular ideas and suggestion for beginning and intermediate guitar classes and ensembles. The language is targeted at two groups: those teachers who are starting guitar programs and those teachers who themselves are not proficient guitarists yet are teaching a guitar class. The "further reading" at the bottom is icing in the cake.

This would seem to combine the use of vernacular music with guitar instruction. This is something that I will look into for my guitar students.

This makes me seriously want to reconsider learning guitar. I'm not gonna lie, as a pianist, I had a horrible time with the guitar in my undergrad methods course. My piano fingers just didn't want to do what the guitar needed them to do. This piece of technology could be a game changer. It just looks fun... thinking about trying again thanks to www.jamstik.com

Tied to the popular guitar workshops, this site provides practical tips for starting and maintaining a guitar curriculum. The forum is not very active, but does store some good conversations.

This website is very helpful when teaching students to play guitar chords. Students are able to search for the song they would like to play and see what chords are needed to play. When the mouse moves over the chords, a chart pops up to show the student how to play the chord.

This website has reviews of several apps and hardware for the music teacher. Learn how to play guitar with an actual guitar, best digital recorder for on the field bands, and more.

Free guitar ensembles for use in the classroom. Some of these are very accessible for beginners.

ACDA - focus on choral music teaching and art - guitar instruction included. To access articles from Choral Journal, check with your institutions library. Journal articles are available Jan 2006 to present.

Guitar teacher forum. Not particularly up to date, but it has some good threads and resources.

This website offers a multitude of resources designed for music-making. This specific organization is devoted to offering musical programs to students who are in the 80% of the population that are not involved in performing ensembles. It offers curriculum, lesson plans, and interactive activities for guitar, piano, drums, bass, ukulele, composition, voice and more. There are free PDF songbooks and lesson plans that are connected to the program, that are extremely helpful towards teacher and student interest. The best part of the program is that the majority of the music is examples that students know already - a lot of pop, rock, and even hip-hop. It connects the bridge between traditional musical concepts with music of today.

Little Kids Rock has a multitude of resources for creating a modern band in your classroom. There are songs loaded on the website that include tab for ukulele, guitar, and bass. There are also drum set patterns included. This website serves to expose educators and students modern band and provides lesson plans to go along with the popular songs. Little Kids Rock also provides workshops on how to effectively teach a modern band program.

This website offers many lessons for instruments that students may be interested in playing (piano, guitar, songwriting, drums,etc). The website offers video lessons as well as current play-along songs for students to put their newly learned skills to work.

Yousician is a great software resource that teaches students to play a number of instruments including: piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, and voice. The software is set-up in a creative, game-like structure that tracks student progress and ability level through playing assessments. It's a great tool to use during general music units that focus on performance practice of these different instruments. The free version is open to all for a full 20 minutes a day. Great tool for students of all ages.

Yousician is another tool to build independent learners and musicians. Students with access to a computer or other device at home can build their instrumental playing skills on ukulele, guitar, bass, or piano with this self-guided program. Additionally, this resource can be used in the general music classroom to teach interval training, intonation, and rhythmic accuracy.

Yousician is an app for Android and iOS devices that can aid you and your students in learning how to play guitar, bass, ukulele, and piano, while also providing guidance with voice development. The app includes a free and premium version. There are videos and lessons that you and your students can follow along to.

Justin Sandercoe offers over a thousand free guitar lessons in an upbeat, appealing style. His teaching is thorough and easy to follow.

Musical Online has a pedagogy page dedicated to resources and support for learning a new instrument, particularly as an adult. There are links to external sites for guitar, piano, voice, and drum lessons include Flowkey, Musical U, Free Drum Lessons, and Justin's Website (guitar resource).

This site has some great resources for ukulele and guitar learning in the classroom. These are free. The powerpoints are especially great because it is a step by step lesson to get students to play their instruments as quickly as possible (including little excerpts of songs in a different key). The rest of the site provides "easy" versions of popular songs for students to begin playing quickly. It was given to me in a conference session about using popular music to teach ukulele and guitar.

MagicMusicTutor.com has some really good materials available for free. I have had particular success with the free song arrangements for boomwhackers. There are also tutorial videos, music theory worksheets, virtual instruments, classroom ideas, guitar tutorials, a MIDI song library, and the site admin accepts requests for new materials.

Yousician is a great resource for learning the guitar, bass, ukelele, or piano. Students can watch video tutorials and move up when they pass levels while playing songs with fun background music. The program/app provides instant feedback on pitch and rhythm. Teachers can use Yousician with a class on a Smart Board. In a group setting, Yousician cannot provide feedback, but it does provide lesson plans and even has a SongCreator. It is free to use with time limits on feedback, or can be upgraded to premium for $9.99/person with unlimited feedback. Students can sign up for their own account and teachers can track their progress through a Teacher account. It is fun, engaging, and provides a well rounded education in these instruments. There are knowledge tracks for each instrument which cover music theory and ear training.

This website offers a free template for printing staff paper. Several customizable options including staff size, clef, indentation, and guitar tab are also included.

Create your own blank sheet music. Tons of customization including TAB.

A Flash-based website that allows the user to print free manuscript paper for personal use. Choose from a variety of clefs, with options of brackets, barlines and more.

The user can download music for piano, guitar, voice, chorus and more. There is a vast library of music available, and the user often has the option of how to view the music, change to key, and other options. Music can be downloaded to a tablet or downloaded and printed from a computer. The prices for the music are very reasonable. This site is a good resource that is convenient and easy to use.

This website serves the purpose of giving music teachers from grades 1-12 games, music symbols, guitar chords, and rhythm exercises for teaching. It allows teachers to have something to give students when preparing for a test or the next section of a class. This website includes features such as midi pianos, ear training courses, the lines treble and bass clefs for study, and rhythm games for understanding and foundation.