Tools & Links

Guitar Building  & Maintenance

• Project guitar: probably the best and most extensive site on guitar building, finishing and maintenance. Looks a little bit outdated though.

Guitar parts

• My favorite parts webshop in Holland: guitarsupplies.nl
• Rockinger in Germany also has a good collection (and they are very friendly). They sell the cheapest Schaller Floyd Roses.
• Gitarre-bestellen.de for your cheap kits.
• Guitarfetish.com for cheap but good pick-ups. Their hardware is OK. It’s an American company so when ordering in Europe add shipping and custom’s taxes.
• Stewart-MacDonald is probably the best webshop regarding guitar parts and luthier tools. Sadly you pay a lot for shipping and custom’s taxes.

Luthiers

• Sander de Gier, the number one!

Music (theory)

• Justin Sandercoe. His site is a must for the beginner (and also intermediate and expert) guitarist
• Ralph Patt Jazz backing tracks

 

Some of the Tools I use:

For making music:

• Guitar Pro: excellent tool that creates good looking scores/tabs and mid. I use the older 5.0 version. Might soon upgrade to a newer version: www.guitar-pro.com
• Band-in-a-box: haven’t used it a lot yet but will.
• Garage Band: I use it on my Mac Mini, iPhone and iPad. Great tool for just playing around or get the feeling of chord changes.

For analysing music:

• Magic Slow Downer

For playing guitar:

• Amplitube on my iPhone and iPad
• Line6
• Guitar Rig 2

For graphics I use the following (free-ware) applications:

• Paint.NET for all basic graphics stuff
• yEd Graph Editor for pictures of scales and chords
• Inkscape for all vector based graphics