Free Guitar Stuff
Cool Guitar Software ... Tools ... Games and More
The links in this section all lead to free guitar software that's fully functional, good quality, for advanced players as well as beginners, and totally free! If you've searched for free guitar software, you probably came across page after page of websites that say they have free stuff, only to find out that it's only free for a limited time, then you pay, or that there is some kind of catch, or it's hidden in with a bunch of stuff to buy, or it's junk ... well, that won't happen here! Everything here is freeware ... not shareware ... you don't need to sign up for anything or give an email address. There is no catch. You can download guitar tuners, metronomes, chord and scale finders, guitar learning games, easy guitar theory guides, tab editing software and more. If you found any free stuff that others might find useful please pay it forward. Just copy the link from your browsers address bar and paste it into the comments section on the Contact Me page, and I'll be happy to share it with others. I'm working on this page now, you can subscribe to my RSS feed on the left side of the page to see when more free guitar goodies are added. Please ... share this page with you're friends.
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Free Guitar Software
Goodies for Beginners and Advanced Players
iPhone Applications for Guitar
This is a brand new application for the iPhone. This is so handy because it's portable! No need to be at your computer to use this one, and like everything else in this section it's 100% FREE.The Gibson, Legacy iPhone app has two tuners, one that produces a tone, and a chromatic tuner that can hear your guitar for super accurate tuning. It also boasts an amazing guitar chord library, a metronome, FREE guitar lessons, and a portal to the Gibson mobile website so you can keep updated with the latest music news and more. This iPhone application is a collaboration of two top names in the guitar industry ... Gibson and Learn and Master Guitar(Legacy Learning Systems) ... and the quality is superb. Click the link to download to free to your iPhone now!
Gibson Learn And Master Guitar iPhone App
Guitar Learning Games and Tools
You'll find this free software here:Free Fretboard Learning Games and Guitar Chord and Scale Software Sorry, but, this webpage is getting too long, so, I'm breaking it down to shorter pages.
Guitar Tuners ... Online and Downloadable
You can download this free chromatic guitar tuner, courtesy of the nice folks at AP Tuner, here.
Guitar Tuner DownloadThis free chromatic tuner "hears" your guitar and you adjust the pitch accurately with the tuner's needle. This AP chromatic guitar tuner is very accurate, but it only works with windows and you need a sound card, and either a line in or microphone.
Here's a nice downloadable PC or Mac desktop guitar tuner for you, courtesy of the folks at Gieson.com.It features a toggle switch to choose between a tone or acoustic guitar sound, and the option of repeating one note or automatically moving to the next string. This is an excellent beginner tuner. Download the PC or MAC version here:
Gieson Guitar Tuner from Drumbot.com
Free Metronomes
This metronome features a large display that tells you which beat you're on, allows you to adjust the beats per measure, and accent certain beats. This metronome can be used freely online, but it can't be downloaded. You'll find this high quality free online metronome available for use here:
Free Online Metronome Courtesy of Jamplay
You can download this fully functional desktop metronome here:
http://www.TabGuitarLessons. At the very top of the page click on the "View Free Downloads" button.
Here's another free downloadable metronome. This metronome for PC or MAC uses your choice of drum sounds for the beats, and has several versatile features. Download it free here:
Free Downloadable Metronome from Drumbot.com
This downloadable free metronome is made using recordings from an actual old wooden metronome, which gives it a warm classic metronome sound.You can use it online or download it here: Download Free Metronome from Seventh String
Free Guitar Chord Charts
This free guitar chord chart is the best one I've found yet. It's simple, neat, easy to use and chock full of guitar chords.The charts clearly show the chords, the tablature for the chords, gives tips about the chords, shows which fingers to use, and shows many variations of the chords all the way up the neck. You'll find plenty of chords here. You can use it online, but it isn't downloadable.
These free chord charts can be accessed here:
Free Guitar Chord Charts Courtesy of Jamplay
This is a cool resource for guitar chords! Chordbook.com has a chord and scale finder that plays the notes or chords with authentic acoustic guitar sound. Too bad it's not downloadable. You can use it here:
Chordbook.com
Video Guitar Lessons
I've gathered so many free video guitar lessons, including complete note for note song lessons with full tabs and notation, that I had to build a separate page for them all!Enjoy these high definition videos here:
Free Guitar Lessons on Video ... Beginner Lessons and Full Songs!
Drum and Beat Software
This is cool. You can make up your own drum patterns with this drum machine. The Gieson drum pattern sequencer features real drum sounds and a save feature. Download your free drum machine for PCs or MAC here:
Gieson Drum Pattern Sequencer Beat Maker
This one is only for linux ... too bad. The hydrogen website states: "Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming."This free drum machine features: - user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface
- Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats
- Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
- Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
- 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
- Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
- Ability to import/export song files.
- Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
- Multiple patterns playing at once.
For more information and your free download visit:
Free Linux Drum Machine and Sequencer
Easy Guitar Chord and Scale Theory
Have you been playing guitar for a while ... know some scales and chords, but just can't seem to understand how to put them together to jam or create a tune?Maybe you know some music theory but just can't relate it to the guitar? Here's a free online guide ... it's only 13 pages about how music theory relates specifically to guitar. It's the clearest, simplest, step by step free guitar theory guide I've seen yet. This guitar theory guide simplifies relating music theory to the guitar and will reveal the secrets to great improvisation. You can access the guide here:
The Essential Guitar Guide
MusicTheory.net is a fantastically simple music theory website. The lessons are simple one to two lines with diagrams. You learn the lessons step by step with back and forward buttons.It's very simple, and fast to grasp theory this way. It also has ear training for notes, intervals and scales. For this excellent free resource visit:
MusicTheory.net
Try playing and singing but the key the music is in just doesn't work for you? You can use this simple transposer to see which chords to use to sing in the key you want.
Guitar Chord Transposer
Free Guitar Tab Player and Editing Software
With TabPlayer 6.0 you can manage your tab files like never before! You can play tabs, search for songs online, listen to CDs and mp3 files, learn chords with the integrated chord dictionary and much more! All free!TabPlayer can write, play, edit, convert, format and export your tablature in plain text files you can save in your computer or publish online. With TabPlayer you can learn fast! Let the mp3 player highlight and loop on a solo while you keep on playing along.TabPlayer can search for a song or a band name on more than 10 different tablature sites, opening your browser on the correct page. The built-in illustrated chord dictionary provides more than 1000+ chords and variants. Just choose the chord and play, insert or edit it. TabPlayer 6.0 is free and fully functional. You may donate if you like, to receive extra benefits. Donations are not required to download this software and it doesn't expire. For Windows 2000, XP, Vista. I like it, especially the search for tabs function ... it takes you directly to the tab files. Download your free guitar tab software here:
TabPlayer ... Guitar Tablature Software
Here's some more free guitar tab and music composer software. It's called Tux Guitar and it's features include: - Tablature editor
- Score Viewer
- Multitrack display
- Autoscroll while playing
- Note duration management
- Various effects (bend, slide, vibrato, hammer-on/pull-off)
- Support for triplets (5,6,7,9,10,11,12)
- Repeat open and close
- Time signature management
- Tempo management
- Imports and exports gp3,gp4 and gp5 files
Grab it here free:
Free Tux Guitar Tab Editor and Composition Software
Free Ear Training
Here is ear training at it's simplest. The ear trainer here sounds clear and can be set using only the notes, intervals or scales you want to learn.It works very well. The website also has simple and fast to learn music theory if you want. Did I say simple? For this excellent free resource visit:
MusicTheory.net
Guitar Games
Here's a fun Guitar Hero™ type of game. You play Frets on Fire using your keyboard. The graphics and audio are good, and it works with Windows, Mac OX S and Linux.You can download it here:
Frets On Fire guitar game
Contests
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