Credits
The site’s guitars, bass and drums are real recordings, taken from free sound libraries. Thanks to their authors. Here is each one, with its license.
The site’s instruments
The examples in the lessons and reference pages, the warm-up, the home page guitar and the Studio all play the same recorded instruments.
| Instrument | Library | Author | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drums (sticks and brushes) | Big Rusty Drums | Karoryfer Samples | CC0 1.0 |
| Fingerstyle electric bass | Black And Blue Basses | Karoryfer Samples | CC0 1.0 |
| Steel-string acoustic guitar (each string sampled separately) | Meta Steel Guitar | Meta, Creative Audio team | CC0 1.0 |
| Guitar (archtop, acoustic and electric sound, muted strings) | Shinyguitar | Karoryfer Samples | CC0 1.0 |
| Classical guitar (nylon strings) | Spanish Classical Guitar | Roberto, FreePats project | CC0 1.0 |
| Shaker, tambourine, cajón, claps, cabasa | Versilian Community Sample Library (VCSL) | Versilian Studios | CC0 1.0 |
| Wurlitzer electric piano | E-Pianos (Wurlitzer EP200) | Greg Sullivan | CC BY 3.0 |
Attribution: “Wurlitzer EP200” by Greg Sullivan, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Changes: selected samples, shortened note tails, normalized volume, encoded as AAC.
The CC0 libraries are in the public domain: no attribution is required, but we want to thank their authors.
What your browser computes
The room reverb, the pad in the ballads and the metronome click don’t come from any recording: they are computed on the fly. So is the tuner’s reference note, which must be accurate to a hundredth of a semitone. Left-hand moves (hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, vibrato) are played on the recorded vibration: only its pitch changes.
The music
The chord charts and arrangements of the thirty backing tracks are original compositions, written for Six Strings.