Resources
Free tools we actually use. Pedagogy here is drafted from Berklee, Hal Leonard, and classical method books — always two-source checked. Justin Guitar is a topic checklist only.
Audio in this room
- Guitar notes: University of Iowa MIS
via tonejs-instruments
(CC BY 3.0). Full file list:
samples/guitar/CREDITS.md. - Sa / drone / metronome: shared practice bar (same as Singing and Piano).
Theory (shared with piano)
Guitar methods (check, don’t copy)
- Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 — open chords, downstrokes, capo
- Berklee guitar lab practice — right hand locked to a click
- Classical: Carcassi, Sor, Giuliani 120 — IMSLP public-domain methods. The pima method on this site: Classical drills. Daily gym that pairs lab work with those studies: Exercises.
Voice / Sa
Singing practice — same Sa drone as the bar on every guitar page.
Teaching with this room
Each practice page has a Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced card. Assign one track, hear it back, then move. Kids stay on the Kids path until four downs are honest. Advanced here means tightness, sevenths, movable barre, reading at tempo, and the pima method on Classical drills — not jazz or CAGED.
- Beginner — 4-week plan on Foundations.
- Intermediate — Month 2, sevenths, 12-bar, folk bass-strum; Exercises 10-minute routine.
- Advanced — Month 3, barre I–IV–V, 2-beat changes, start/stop silence.
Theory, picking, and the gym
- Theory: Scales · Modes · CAGED · Jazz lite · Improv · Fingerstyle · Reading · Tunings · Ear training (Tools)
- Picking lessons: Alternate · Economy · Sweep (labs sit on those pages)
- Practice gym: Drills · Exercises · Break rut — style pages live inside the hubs, not on the home row
Scale and mode labs live on Scales and Modes; compact technique labs stay on Exercises.
Repertoire on this site
- Play along — progressions only; famous titles as a recognition aid
- First pieces (titles only): Folk · Classical · Rock · Metal · Solo — public-domain and famous-title maps, no printed tunes or riffs. Classical scores on IMSLP. Concert-hall names (Vivaldi to Wagner) on Classical · concert hall
- Pachelbel’s Canon — harmony only, on Play along