Places to Share Good References and Resources Artist Sites Places to Share www.sickguitar.com This site is managed by a good friend (and very good player), Mark Funk. Mark created this site to give musicians a place to share information and learn. Mark has some interesting videos, a forum for discussion, MP3s as well as informative lessons. Please visit this site. It's a lot of fun. You won't regret it. http://www.cyberfret.com/ Cyberfret offers free online guitar lessons using audio and video. This site also features a tablature section and links to many guitar and music resources. Well worth a visit. http://www.wholenote.com/ Wholenote is an online guitar community with a lot of useful information, lessons, online metronome, forums, online sequencer, auctions ... http://www.thegearpage.net/ thegearpage is an online guitar community with very, I mean very, lively forums. If you have a question, there is probably someone on the board with an answer. Some very knowledgeable people. ...   Good References and Resources http://www.tuckandpatti.com/pick-finger_tech.html Tuck Andress has put together a very comprehensive article on picking technique. It is a little dated, but very thorough. http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory1.htm The Dolmetsch family is one which has over 120 year history in the study of music. This particular link, from Dolmetsch Online contains a very  good tutorial on music theory. http://www.mastering1.com/mastering-recording-tips.html The preceding link contains a very good introduction to mastering, EQing and the general recording process. ( really wish that I would have been available before I created my masters, which I recently converted to MP3, as once you have mastered to 2 tracks (left and right), you really don't have very much flexibility). http://www.audiomastermind.com/ Audiomastermind is essentially a collection of links related to music, recording, you name it. It is hard to describe. You will have to go there and see for yourself. http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/#Theory Bob Keller's Jazz Page contains many good links to useful Jazz resources. http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ Improvisor is a program, conceptually devised by Bob Keller, to generate Jazz solos. I have not played with this one yet, but it looks really fascinating. http://www.midiox.com/ MIDIOx and MIDIYoke are two very important MIDI utilities. MIDIOx diagnostic tool and a System Exclusive librarian, that can be used to map MIDI stream to specific output drivers, as well as some other important functions. MIDIYoke is kind of a virtual patch cable, allowing you to map the output of one program to the input of another, etc. http://cnx.org/content/m11643/latest/ The preceding link is on the theory of harmonic analysis, intervals, modulation, etc. http://www.harmony.org.uk/index.htm The preceding link explains the role of chord progressions in tonal music. http://www.jguitar.com Jguitar is a collection of useful online utilities for guitar players, including, but not limited to, chord and scale calculators, etc. http://www.guitarweek.com guitarweek is an organization dedicated to teaching guitar. In addition to quite a few very good tutorials, there are also other learning/teaching aids (such as printable tab paper) as well as a lot of other goodies, such as itemized hyperlinks. Definitely worth a visit. http://www.musictheory.net Musicthoeory.net is a site developed byt Ricci Adams explaining theoretical concepts related to music. He has some very nice flash tutorials, which are even available for download to run on your local PC.   Artist Sites The following links are the sites of some of my favorite players. http://www.jasonbecker.com/ http://www.paulgilbert.com/ http://www.vinniemoore.com/ http://www.yngwie.org/ http://www.vai.com/ http://www.georgelynch.com/