Links

OTHER THUMB AND FINGER STYLE CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS

National Thumb Pickers Hall of Fame Honoring the Very Best of Thumbpickers in Muhlenberg County 
Ohio Fingerstyle Guitar Club Our neighbor to the North and great club
The Georgia Fingerstyle Guitar Association Our buddies in Georgia!
Association of Fingerstyle Guitarists A club in California with a great approach to their pickin' parties!
Oklahoma Fingerstyle Guitar Club They say fingerstyle but like us they play Chet, Travis and Reed
Michigan Guitar Society Good Club with fine performers
New Jersey Guitar & Mandolin Society A club in NJ - interesting guests
Delaware Valley Fingerstyle Guitar Association With guests like T Emmanuel, Bennett, Muriel
North Carolina Thumb & Finger Style Guitar Players  Clay Lunsford President - Great Annual Convention
Texas Finger style Guitar Club Another fine thumbpicking site with live picking and radio broadcast!

GUITAR  MUSIC - WORDS, CHORDS, TAB & TAB VIEWERS

Harmony Central The standard for ASCII TAB, words and chords for mainstream pop, rock & country 
Ralph Pratt's Jazz Web Page - Vanilla Book Great encyclopedia of classic tunes and their chords 
The Guitar Guy The finest collection of words and chords.  Search by date, title, author.  
Country Music Lyrics and Chords What more can be said.  Lots of oldies and standards


Tabledit Thumbpicker's favorite TAB viewing, playing and writing program with lots of TAB for fingerstyle

http://www.mapcar.de/_f_gitarre_travis.html
http://bobwolford.com/
http://www.gpassociation.com/partitions/tabs_atkins.htm
http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/guitar/dadi.htm
http://www.marceldadi.com/html/tablatures.htm
http://www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.com/
http://www.angelfire.com/music2/blackmack/
http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/guitar/tab.htm

PowerTAB TAB viewing, playing and writing program (see TAB sites below) 
GuitarPro TAB viewing, playing and writing program  (see TAB sites below)  
Tux Guitar TAB viewing, playing and writing program, uses PowerTab, GuitarPro and Tabledit files 
 
http://www.911tabs.com/tabs/c/chet_atkins/ 
http://www.resnets.com/tellurian/ 
http://ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/merle_travis_tabs.htm 
http://www.guitarprotabs.org/artist/tabs/Chet%20Atkins/page1.php 
http://www.aireings.co.uk/GuitarTabs.html 
http://www.tablatures.tk/tabs.php?id=358&page=1 
http://www.tabscout.com/?action=search&query=merle+travis 
http://www.tabsheaven.net/interpret.php?id=446 
 
PDF or Acrobat Reader TAB Files
http://tommyemmanuel.wordpress.com/gitar-tabok/ 

GUITARS, ACCESSORIES & REPAIR

Fred Kelly's Thumbpicks THE best thumbpicks in the world. Period!
Fred's Music GREAT prices and a nice guy to do business with!
First Quality Music Nice Louisville area store with tons of equipment from which to select

GUITAR LINKS & MUSIC SEARCH ENGINES

Harmony Central
Tablature search
Guitar Notes - Links to Everything
Links, Search engines
SixStrings links page
Acoustic Guitarists Guide to Web
Find & hear CD's
Find & hear CD's
Gibson Guitars
Gretsch Guitars
Taylor Guitars
Martin Guitars

Records

FunkyJunk Hard to find music from thumbpicks and fingerstyle guitarists.  CDs, Videos, books....
CD Now On-line ordering of mainstream pop, rock and country CDs.  Great search routine for general info

MAGAZINES & PUBLICATIONS

Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine
Mel Bay free tab page
Premier Guitar Magazine

SITES ABOUT ARTISTS

  Chet Atkins

  Merle Travis


CONTESTS
Winfield picking contest
National Thumbpicking Contest-Mt.View, AK

CONCERTS
Find concerts, by City, artist...
Musi-Cal
PollStar
Dirty Linen

GUITAR LESSONS
LESSONS LINK Variety of Lessons prepared by KTPC
Lessons on Modes, Scales, Chords
Theory lessons
Stefan Grossman Video Lessons Order Viddeos. DVDs, TAB books and Tapes - Blues, Fingerstyle, +++
Whole Note Lessons Loads of Lesson from basics to involved theory
Guitar World Variety of Lessons
Slow Hand Blues Variety of Lessons

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