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: Hands · method books.
Voice / Sa
Singing practice — same Sa drone as the bar on every guitar page.
Teaching with this room
Follow the book index in the sidebar — same spine on every page. Barre, style drills and reading come in when those stops on the index say so.
- Foundations → Open chords → Strumming → Play along
- Daily gym alongside: Today for the plan, Hands for the wake-ups, one style page a session
- Theory and reference: Scales, Reading, Barre, Classical drills (pima) — not a separate “advanced track”
Theory, picking, and the gym
- Neck and names: Notes on the neck · Power chords · Barre · Reading
- First lead: Scales · Alternate · Legato · Bends & vibrato · Blues · Improv
- Harmony: Chords in a key · Triads · CAGED · Modes
- Styles: Fingerstyle · Jazz lite · Tunings · Ear & transcription · Ear training (Tools)
- Technique: Economy · Hybrid · Sweep · Tapping · Loop cells
- Daily gym: Today · Hands · Folk · Classical · Rock · Metal · Lead
Scale and mode labs live on Scales and Modes; the technique labs sit on their own lesson pages.
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