The guitar in America began as an instrument used in popular music in the city and then branched out to minstrel shows, ragtime, and even jazz. Read about the history of this ubiquitous instrument and how it took on its American character.

A reference page including content and animations on longitudinal waves. Understand how sound waves are produced from vibrations in guitar strings to produce longitudinal waves.

This is a fantastic site that teaches basic music reading, especially as related to the guitar. Although the site is a promotional software site, the trial version is excellent by itself.

Home for a site that provides information and links to virtually all things guitar: instruction, music, parts & accessories and more!

Kids learn about the popular string instrument the guitar. Types of guitars, different parts, how to play, and more.

Lesson plan on "Guitars as Sculpture." This is a lesson plan incorporating art, music and history. Explore the history of the guitar while making your own in a unique shape.

This resource contains information on intervals, scales, and chords for the string bass guitar. Also includes reference charts for chords and intervals.

This site provides an experiment where students create a guitar to discover what variables will change sound.

Experience how vibrations make sound by constructing a guitar using rubber bands and a cereal box.

Homepage for a website dedicated to those who play fingerstyle guitar. Includes links to related essays, tablature, books, videos, and audio clips.

Biography of Paco de Lucia, the famous Spanish guitar player. Includes information about his most recent album.

What are the major pieces that make up the guitar? Find this out on this site where students can learn about the parts of the guitar.

Where did this musical instrument come from? Students can study the history of the guitar on this site.

On this site, students can learn the basics of playing the guitar. They can learn how to hold and play this musical string instrument.

This lab will help you understand the physics of vibrating strings, and find out why the tone of an electric guitar changes when you switch between the different pickups. If playing guitars is a hobby of yours, this experiment makes an...

The is Gibson's official web site. They are a major manufacturer of guitars, basses and amps as well as other instruments.

Keith Richards and Eric Clapton owe their fame and fortune (in part) to electromagnetic induction. (Java tutorial)

An excellent tutorial for learning chords for the guitar. Tells what chords are, chord names, what chord blocks and barre chords are, and how to move chord shapes up the guitar neck to create new chords. Gives examples and pictures that...

This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a series of word-labeled pictures and determine which ones possess the long /a/ with the -ea letter...

Even though this article is aimed at young guitarists, this is an excellent read for any young musician. This well- written column provides strong legitimate reasons for considering private lessons.

Science instruction is most effective when using a hands-on delivery system. This lesson plan will use your students' natural affinity for music and musical instruments to reinforce and refine their knowledge of the nature of sound -...

Exhibition focuses on two cubist works by Picasso that showcase the artist's incessant inventiveness with traditional media and found objects.

This site talks about the African harp, guitar and several other instruments.

You have just written a cool guitar lick and you want to play it in your favorite song, however, it just doesn't sound good in the song. This article explains how you can break down your lick into the key components and refine it to suit...