Raccoon Bend Flatpick Guitar

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Links to My Other Pages
Mike Wright's Flatpick Guitar Tablature and Sound Files FLATPICK-L Members' Guitar Tablature

Flatpick Guitar Exercises
Sean Barry's Pearl Inlay Techniques

Links Farther Down on This Page

Flatpickers - Dead or Alive
Guitar Pickin' Links (Tab, Chords, Theory, etc.)
Guitar Makers and Sellers
Other Guitar-related Links (Picks, Capos, Supplies)
Bluegrass Links
Other Music Links
Funny Stuff

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine is one of the greatest resources for flatpickers. Each issue contains loads of tablature, as well as articles by and about some great musicians. It comes with an optional CD, so that you can hear exactly what the tunes, breaks, and exercises are supposed to sound like.

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Online

FLATPICK-L is a mailing list for folks who are interested in exchanging ideas, information, and music related to flatpicked acoustic guitar. For more info on this mailing list, check out:

Official FLATPICK-L Page
Rob Bradley's FLATPICK-L Page
Johnboy's FLATPICK-L Page
Plectrology Picker Page

I've recently become aware of a couple of very useful pieces of software for musicians. The first is the Amazing Slow Downer. It's available for both Windows and Macintosh (including OS X), and does a wonderful job of slowing down fast tunes without changing the pitch. You can specify how much to "stretch" the tune, and can adjust the pitch, as well. It can read tunes from CDs, as well as reading MP3 files from disk.

Another very useful Macintosh application is Barfly, which is a shareware integrated text editor/player/viewer for abc music files. You can paste in music in ABC format, and Barfly will play it using various MIDI instruments. You can export the sounds as AIFF audio, Standard MIDI or Quicktime movie. You can save multiple tunes in a single file, and the editing capability is very useful.

A lot of online tablature is available only in TablEdit format (.tef). You can purchase TablEdit or download the free TEFview viewer on the TablEdit Tablature Editor site. They are availble for both Mac and Windows.

Flatpickers - Dead or Alive: (Back to Top)

Broken Homestead (Matt Brehm and Joe Carioti)

Rolly Brown - National Fingerpicking Champ, 1980 - Now a Flatpicker, too

Robin Bullock- Celtic, Folk, Teacher

Joe Carr - Instructor at South Plains College

Gary Cook - National Flatpicking Champ, 1989 and 1996

Mark Cosgrove - National Flatpicking Champ, 1995

Roy Curry - Two-time National Flatpicking Champ

Brad Davis - Hot picker (not just Bluegrass, either) - Online Guitar Tips

Kim Davis and Mike Strangeland

Beppe Gambetta - Monster Picker and Great Cook

Art Gomperz Band

David Grier - Innovative Hot Picker

Jim Hurst - Amazing Picker - Bluegrass, Country, Jerry Reed Fan - Tours with Missy Raines and the Claire Lynch Band

Steve Kaufman - Three-time National Flatpicking Champ - Instructional Materials, Flatpick Camp

Robin Kessinger - National Flatpicking Champ, 1985

Steve & Penny Kilby - Alleghany Music Co.

Bryan Kimsey - Flatpicker, Guitar Set-ups

Dan Mozell - The Incomplete Celtic Guitar

Liz Meyer and Mark Cosgrove

Django Reinhardt - Gypsy Jazz

Tony Rice - Bluegrass, Dawg Music, Hot Picker

Wyatt Rice and Santa Cruz

Sandy Rothman - Tone Bar Records (including "Bluegrass Guitar Duets" with Steve Pottier)

Gary Smith - Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic

Kenny Smith - Kenny and Amanda Smith Band

Jeff Snow - Multi-instrumentalist, instruction

Tim Stafford - AcuTab Transcriptions

Orrin Star - National Flatpicking Champ, 1976

Tut Taylor - The flatpickin' dobro man

Doc Watson - The First Big Influence for Almost Everyone

Clarence White - Kentucky Colonels, the Byrds, Another Influential Picker

Clarence White - Tabs

Josh Williams - Startling Multi-instrumentalist, now with Rhonda Vincent and the Rage

Ellen and John Wright

Guitar Pickin' Links: (Back to Top)

Acoustic Guitarists' Annotated Guide to the Internet

Acoustic Music Web Tools

AllTabs.Com - Tabs for Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Dulcimer, even Fiddle

Annie's Texas Swing Chords for Guitar

Bluegrass Guitar Home Page

Bluegrass Guitar Tabs

Custom Tabs - Transcription Service for Bluegrass Guitar and Mandolin

Dan Smith's Home Page - Guitar Techniques, Chord Theory, and more

Everything you want to know about flatpicking guitar!

ezFolk Media Store - Guitar tab

Flatpicked Guitar Music - A vast number of great tabs in TablEdit format from Mike Strangeland and Kim Davis

Flatpicking guitar in the style of Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Norman Blake & Dan Crary

Free-Tabs.Com - Mostly modern, but lots of links to other styles, too

FRETS.COM - Guitar Repair and Maintenance (Frank Ford Explains It All)

Glenn's Guitar, Clawhammer Banjo, and Music Site (tab, links, and more)

Guitar Chord Charts: All you need to know about jazz guitar chords

The Guitar Link Page

Guitar Notes - Guitar Tab of All Kinds

Harmony Central(R): Guitar: Tablature

Jim Brown's Flatpicking Page - Tab and Links

JK LUTHERIE Guitar Books, Videos, Discs & Accessories

John McGann's Custom Transcription Service, Technique Tips, and more

John's Bluegrass Guitar Page

Mac Chord Theory Software

Mickey Cochran's Basic Guitar Crosspicking Lessons

National Flatpick Champions

Robert Church's Flatpicking & Music Theory

13h Fret Acoustic Guitar Discussion Forum

Twelvemonth Music - Guitar music notated in visualinear™ tablature

VirtualFretboard - Chord and Scale Generator

Guitar Makers and Sellers: (Back to Top)

Acoustic Guitar Store

Andersen Stringed Instruments

Bourgeois Guitars (or Pantheon)

Carmel Music - Dexter Johnson

Charley's Guitar Shop (Dallas, TX - where I got both of my current guitars)

Collings Guitars

Cotten Music Center

Dowling Sound Labs - innovative non-wood guitars

Dudenbostel Stringed Instruments

Gallagher Guitars

Gibson Musical Instruments

Graden Guitar Shop

Gryphon Stringed Instruments

Heiden Stringed Instruments

Hoffman Guitars

Homewood Musical Instruments

Huss & Dalton Acoustic Guitars

Jean Larrivee Guitars Ltd.

Mandolin Brothers, Ltd.

C. F. Martin and Company

Nashville Guitar Company

Proulx Guitars and Mandolins

Santa Cruz Guitar Company

Eric Schoenberg Guitars Home Page

Sheppard Guitars

Steve Swan Guitars

Stringed Instrument Division - Vintage Instruments

Unofficial Collings Clarence White Guitar Web Site

Kathy Wingert Guitars

Other Guitar-related Links: (Back to Top)

Basic Guitar Set-up 101

Big Ed's Acoustic Guitar Classifieds (Free)

Casa de la Guitarra Espanola (Spanish Guitars--in Spanish)

Clayton Guitar Picks

Euphonon Strings

Fossil Ivory Guitar Fittings - John Mickelson (AKA The Fossil Ivory King)

Guild of American Luthiers

Iboney (refined, machined and tempered cowbone for guitar nuts and bridge saddles)

Intellitouch Tuner

JLD Guitar Research & Development

Kradle Guitar Picks and Accessories - Unique "self-correcting, variable position" picks

Leonard Musical Instruments - Ivory instument parts, Inlay supplies

Luthier Home Page

Luthiers Mercantile International (Wood and tools for instrument makers)

Speed Bump Shows How a Guitar Is Built

Stewart Macdonald's Guitar Shop Supply

Winfield National Championships - Don Shorock's Walnut Valley Festival Pages

Bluegrass Links: (Back to Top)

America's Music: Bluegrass - A history of bluegrass music in the words of its pioneers

Barb's Handy Bluegrass Links

Bay Area Bluegrass Association - League City, TX

Bill Monroe Tales

Bluegrass Australia

The Bluegrass Chronicle

Bluegrass Connection Home Page

Bluegrass Europe

The Bluegrass Home Page (Photos, Festivals, Reviews)

Bluegrass Lyrics Home Page

Bluegrass Northwest

BlueGrassRoots LINKS (Estonia)

Bluegrass Songbook

Bluegrass Works - Forums, Classifieds, Events, Resources, Profiles, Reviews

Central Texas Bluegrass Association

Cybergrass - The Internet Bluegrass Music Magazine

DC Bluegrass Union

Front Porch Stage - Mount Ida, AR

Garland Square Pickers - Garland, TX Weekly Jam Sessions

Greater Oklahoma Bluegrass Association

Honkytonk's Country Classics - Real Audio of Bluegrass and Country Classics

Houston Bluegrass Information

International Bluegrass Music Association

Mid-Continent Music - Bluegrass and Acoustic Music Recordings

Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association

North East Bluegrass Pages (UK)

Northern California Bluegrass Society

The Ottawa Valley Bluegrass Music Association

Pacific Bluegrass Network

Radford University BlueGrass Club - Includes Song Lyrics and Guitar Tab

Red River Bluegrass Club - Paris, TX

Redwood Bluegrass Associates

Renofest Bluegrass Music Festival

Rivertown Bluegrass Society

Roland White's Bluegrass Mandolin Music Page

Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA)

Southeastern Bluegrass Association

Southwest Bluegrass Club (North Texas, DFW area - I'm a member, myself, and currently Webmaster.)

Tricopolis Records - Bluegrass Music from the West Coast

Washington Bluegrass Association

Wingate Family Bluegrass Page

Other Music Links: (Back to Top)

abc Music Notation System

Acoustic Music Recording Studio

Bear Family Records Home Page

Chiff & Fipple - Forum devoted to various instruments used in Irish Trad, including a String forum

The Cittern Pages

Chris Smith - Mostly Tenor Banjo in Irish Music, author of Celtic Backup, also very useful to guitarists

D-Sound Pro - Music Software Program (shareware for the Mac)

DawgNet - No Frills Version

Dennis Havlena - Building Simple Musical Instruments

FIDDLE-L Mailing List Home Page

The Fiddler's Companion (encyclopedia of fiddle tunes)

FolkBook: An Online Acoustic Music Establishment.

Folk Music Index to Recordings

The Golden Wood

Hardanger Fiddle Association of America

Homespun Tapes - Music Instruction

Homewood Musical Instruments

Irish Music Sites

Ken Fansler's Online Music Instruction Page

Max Hunter Folksong Collection

Mid-Continent Music

Musicians and Injuries

Musix (Dix Bruce Music Instruction)

Nanci Griffith Lyrics A to Z Listing

Old Time Music Midi Archive

Pride and Joy - The Stevie Ray Vaughan Archive

Richard Robinson's Tunebook

Song of the Sea - Includes listing of folk music teachers and players

Toronto Celtic Music Page

Victor's House of Music

Victory Review and Music

Funny Stuff: (Back to Top)

Canonical List of Banjo Jokes

I use iData^TM 3, a little database application that I wrote (and publish), to keep the track of all of my guitar tabs. Here's a sample record from the Mac version. (This shows the Mac version. An older, simpler version is also available for Windows.)

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I'm especially interested in adding more Bluegrass and flatpick guitar links.