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Editor's
Picks: Guitar Tablature...
The
directory below lists our
favorite places to find free sheet music and
tablature for guitar on the web.
They are listed in alphabetical order:
or, you
can save a bit of time by searching
here...
No title
 Christian
Music 4 Praise and Worship
Instrumentation for: Guitar
(mostly chord charts), Some Piano
Categories: Christian,
Worship
Catalog Size: Huge (Over
4000 as of this writing)
Here's one of the best
of the Christian praise and worship
music sheet music sites we've seen
of late. Worship leaders post their
original songs to the site, and
include MP3s, sheet music, chord
charts and lyric sheets. Not every
song has every option, but there's
a very large selection here to browse
through. A GREAT resource for worship
leaders looking for new music that's
legal to use and download. Added
02/23/2007.
Cantorion
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar, Violin, and many other instruments.
Categories: Classical, Christmas, a few others.
Catalog Size: Huge (900+)
Cantorion is a welcome addition to our directory. A very easy site to use to find free sheet music, which is all in easy-to-read PDF format. Every piece of music is free. You'll find all the favorites, from Canon in D to Ave Maria, Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, Clair de Lune, The Entertainer and more. Added 05/27/2009.
Christmas
Song Guitar Tab & Lyrics
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Christmas
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
This is About.com's collection of holiday favorites for guitar. A good selection of Christmas songs and lyrics,
including not only favorite traditional songs, but tabs for renditions of new Christmas songs by U2, the Kinks,
Blues Traveller and others. Updated 12/20/2007.
(recommedations continue below)
David
Coester Meanton: Classical Guitar
Instrumentation for: Classical
Guitar
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
If
I were a classical guitarist, I would be very grateful
for the excellent material guitarist David Coester
provides at his web site. You'll find free
PDF downloads of several complete folios
from the 19th century, all dedicated to
the guitar soloist. Very possibly one of the
finest strictly classical guitar collections
listed in this directory. Updated 12/20/2007.
Delcamp.net:
Classical Guitar Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Classical
Guitar
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Classical guitarists
will really enjoy the free sheet music offerings from
Delcamp.net. Offered are a wide variety of classical
guitar selections from the Renaissance, Baroque,
Romantic, Modern and Contemporary periods.
Composers include Albeniz, Carulli, Mozart,
Paganini, Mudarra, Dowland, Scarlatti, Bach
and so many more. Added 06/11/2004.
Dirk's
Guitar Page: Free Music for
Classical Guitar
Instrumentation for: Classical
& Latin Guitar
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Here's
another great web site devoted
to Classical guitar. It's a
very large archive of high quality
PDFs featuring music from Classical
as well as comtemporary composers.
Lots of latin guitar music scores
as well. Added 12/20/2007.
Free Guitar
Tips & Tabs by Bob Houlston
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Classical, Traditional, Popular
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
It's not a large tab site, but it's a very good one, designed for beginners on the guitar. Bob's site has one of
the most detailed, easy to read explanations I've seen on how to read guitar tab, and the site, overall, is a perfect
place to just pick up your guitar and start getting familiar with reading tab notation. The selection of songs
is good too, with everything from Air on the G String to
Music Box Waltz and House of the Rising Sun.
Other featurings include guitar maintenance tips, playing styles, and many other extras. Verified
02/21/2008.
The Gospel Music Archive
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Tablature), Harmonica
Categories: Christian, Christmas, Children
Catalog Size: Very Large (500+?)
Here you'll find a very large selection of tablature for both guitar and, strangly enough, harmonica. Music is
sorted alphabetically for easy browsing. While the site is predominantly dedicated to gospel, worship and praise
music, you'll also find a nice selection of other songs. There's an entire section for kids, as well as a large
quantity of Christmas songs. Updated 12/20/2007.
Guitar Noise
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Pop & Rock
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100) with links to hundreds.
We found Guitar Noise to be quite a treat, especially for those just learning to play the instrument. Guitar Noise
features lessons using tablature for both easy and intermediate guitarists. Songs used in the lessons include a
lot of popular favorites such as Horse With No Name, Margaritaville, House
of the Rising Sun,
Imagine and many others. The Tab section
includes articles on how to read, play and write tab and links to other
web sites that feature tab exclusively. So while
this isn't a guitar tab site per se (it's more
of a lessons site), you'll find plenty of tabs
here plus some great learning material. A fun place to learn to play guitar. Updated
6/21/2005.
The Guitar
School
Instrumentation for: Classical Guitar
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
The Guitar School, founded by classical guitarist Eythor Thorlaksson, features hundreds of high quality classical
guitar transcriptions. You'll find entire sheet music collections free for download, from beginner guitar studies
to complex pieces for two, three or four guitars. Lots to choose from including classical guitar arrangements of
music by Bach, Scarlatti, Albeniz and much more. Very highly recommended for classical guitarists. Updated 06/21/2005.
Just Worship
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
While not the largest collection of Christian guitar tabs, Just Worship is a good one, featuring some of the most
popular worship songs today. Fans of Vineyard music in particular, will rejoice at finding this site. Click
on the Worship Songs link on the
left to browse the alphabetical
list of songs. Updated 05/09/2007.
KeyStave Music
Instrumentation for: Piano, Classical Guitar, Violin, Viola, Flute,
Others
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
This high quality collection of sheet music manuscripts includes a wide range of classical pieces for a large variety
of instruments, including classical guitar. Available in PDF format, sheet music is sorted by instrument, as well
as composer and difficulty. In addition to popular works by the likes of Bach, Satie, Tarrega, and Debussy, you'll
a very nice selection of technical exercises. So whether you want to work on your fingering, or start plucking
away at Beethoven's Sonata in G, you'll find the means to do it here. Highly recommended. Updated 11/04/2002.
The Messenger Project
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Lead Sheets)
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
This web site from the fascinating 'Messenger Project' seeks to put
the Bible to music. Currently there are 77 passages, from Genesis to Revelation, taken from the NIV Bible translation
and put to music. Free sheet music is available for download for each of the songs, as well as free as free MP3
files (at MP3.com) of the recorded works. Updated 12/20/2007.
Noel,
Noel, Noel
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar Lead Sheets, Voice.
Categories: Christmas
Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
Noel, Noel, Noel is a beautiful website dedicated to the celebration of Christmas. Included in their free online
offerings are over a dozen Christmas carols arranged both for each piano
(with voice parts) as well as for guitar, with melody and chords.
You'll find Away in a Manger, I Saw Three Ships, O Come All Ye
Faithful, We Three Kings and others. Well worth visiting if only
to view the site's original artwork. At Noel, Noel, Noel, you'll find lots of Christmas cheer to keep your days
jolly. Updated 12/20/2007.
Paul's Free Guitar Scores
Instrumentation for: Classical Guitar
Categories: Classical, Original
Catalog Size: Medium (25-50)
Here's a great find for classical guitar players! Guitarist Paul Palmer has transcribed many of Scott Joplin's piano rags as well as Bach's keyboard works to guitar. You'll also find transcriptions for music by Grieg, Lamb and many of Paul's original works. All songs also include an MP3 so you can hear what it should sound like. Highly recommended! Added 04/05/2008.
Praise-Worship.net
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tablature, Bass Tablature
Categories: Christian, Christmas, Kids
Catalog Size: Huge (6000+)
This fantastic web site features thousands of guitar and bass tabs for the Christian musician. You'll find over
4400 tabs by popular Christian artists (including all the big names) and over 1400 praise and worship tunes, all
searchable by artist or song name. In addition, you'll find nearly 100 Christmas tunes, tunes for kids, transparencies
and chord charts. One of the top sites in this category. Very highly recommended. Updated 05/06/2002.
PW
Archive
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Christian
Praise and Worship
Catalog Size: Huge (1000+)
A fantastic catalog of guitar
tablature for contemporary praise and worship
music. As of this writing, the PW Archive contains
over 2400 tabs for both original and popular
worship songs. The site is a wonderful resource
for worship leaders, who can create and save
their own worship music sets online. You can
even view others' worship sets if you like.
Also available is a great selection of articles
on worship leading. Added 06/22/2005.
The Psalmistry: All Psalms
Christian Music
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
The Psalmistry is a very welcome addition to the Free Sheet Music
Guide. Here, you will find original lyrics, sheet music, guitar chords and midi and mp3 download files for all
150 Psalms in the Bible. Just pick your favorite psalm in the music index to view lyrics and download/listening
options. Sheet music available in PDF or Noteworthy format. Added 07/29/2002.
Rockin' With The
Cross
Instrumentation for: Guitar and Bass Tablature, Horns
Categories: Christian Rock and Pop, Praise and Worship
Catalog Size: Huge (4000+)
RWTC features a huge collection of Christian rock, praise and worship tablature for guitar and bass. The collection
is completely searchable, or if you prefer you can browse the alphabetical listings. You'll find tablature for
tunes by DC Talk, Deliriou5, Jars of Clay, Jaci Velasquez, Rich Mullins, Sarah Masen and many, many more. Highly
recommended for worship leaders or fans of Christian music. Note: Rockin' With The Cross now charges a $2.95 monthly fee for access. We have opted to include the site
in our listings anyway as it is a very good resource. You can view the complete song list before having to pay
anything. Updated 07/16/2002
RUF
Hymnbook Online Hymn Resource
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tablature, Lead
Sheets, Piano
Categories: Hymns
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Here's a fantastic site
containing modern arrangements of
a large number of classic hymns.
Downloads include chord charts,
lead sheets and in many cases, piano
sheet music. You can also listen
to the songs demos. If you're a
worship leader that loves hymns,
and wants to lead them with a modern
twist, here you go. Added 05/09/2007.
ShareSong.org
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar (Tablature), Guitar (Lead Sheets)
Categories: Christian, Original
Catalog Size: Very Large (500+)
Share Song features original worship and praise music composed by over 400 different worship leaders from around
the world. Works are organized by author, as well as song title, most popular downloads and there is of course
a searchable database. What makes Share Song particularly appealing is that a majority of the song listings include
sheet music (PDFs), chort charts (tabs), MP3 files as well as lyric sheets for each song. In offering all these
options Share Song pretty much offers all the tools a worship or praise leader might need. A fantastic resource.
Updated 10/07/2002
TabCrawler
Instrumentation for: Guitar
and Bass Tablature
Categories: Popular, Rock, Alternative,
Catalog Size: Huge
TabCrawler is perhaps the most complete tab site we've ever reviewed here. Not only do they offer free guitar and
bass tablature for thousands of popular songs, but they provide some
extensive articles to help you understand
how to read and play guitar tabs
as well as other tips. There is
also an active discussion forums covering a wide variety of music related topics. It's the perfect
site for both beginner or master guitar players. Tabs browseable by band name, or searchable by band name and/or
song title. Updated 12/20/2007.
TabRobot
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tablature
Categories: Popular, Rock, Alternative, Others
Catalog Size: Huge (Searches 850,000+ tabs)
TabRobot isn't a site so much as it is a meta-search engine which searches mulitple tab databases (such as GuitareTAB,
Olga, Guitar Tab Universe and others) simultaneously. The end result is that rather than visiting several sites to find
the guitar tab you're looking for, you can search in one single place. You can also browse by band name. A very
extensive and useful resource. Verified 02/21/2008.
The Worship Archive
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Very Large (500+)
The excellent Worship Archive contains a large catalog of worship
songs in tab format. You can browse by author (Brian Doerksen, Michael W. Smith, Matt Redman), or by song title.
Once you've found the song you want, you can instantly transpose it to a different key, or hide the chords so only
the lyrics are displayed. Printable versions are a click away. Highly, highly recommended. Added 04/22/2003.
Your
Christian Home: Praise and Worship Library
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Tablature)
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Very Large (500+)
This guitar tab archive of praise and worship music is a worship leaders dream. It features a large selection of
today's favorite praise and worship tunes arranged alphabetically in *.txt format. The library is also searchable
by song title, song text, or author. Updated 12/20/2007
ZIMMUSIC
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar (solo and duo), Flute, Violin
& More
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Huge (2000+)
At ZIMMUSIC you'll find a very large, searchable collection of classical works in Noteworthy and
PDF format. There's a
lot of great stuff here, by a wide variety of composers, many of whom are not represented well elsewhere on the
Internet. Highly recommended
due to the variety and uniqueness
of the sheet music library.
Updated 07/02/2007.
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