There are so many great sites on the internet to help you develop your guitar playing and your music overall.  These are a few resources that you can use as hands-on tools or just a cool way to expand your horizons and get the wheels turning.

Dan's YouTube Channel Guitar Chord Finder This is a great reference tool if you're just getting started playing guitar and you're learning your beginning open chords.  It's also great for increasing your knowledge of chords overall - no matter what stage you're at with you're guitar playing.  Of all the chord dictionary tools out there - this is probably the easiest to use.     Guitar Tuner - Simple This a nice simple guitar tuner that's very easy to figure out. It plays each string of the guitar in standard tuning. Guitar Tuner - Advanced This is also a great guitar tuner with a few more options. Such as preset open tunings as well as the option customize your own open tuning.   Mode Master Scale Tool This a great tool for any guitarist who wants to expand their knowledge of scales. It can be a way of broadening your horizons when it comes to playing melodies and improvising guitar solos.     Online Drum Machine This a great online drum machine called Monkey Machine.  You can make any beat you want and change the tempo and length.  And it's free!  Now you have no excuse for playing without a beat! Online Metronome This is a very straight forward metronome.  The other beat that's worth trying out is the "Pop beat".       The Virtual Drum Machine Playground This is a fun site that has some classic drum machine beats on it.  Some of the better ones are : Electro-Harmonix DRM-16,  The Electro-Harmonix DRM-15,The Boss DR-55, The Univox Microrhythmer 12, The Oberheim DX, The ELI Computer Rhythm CR-7030.  The option to vary the tempo of the beats isn't available, but nonetheless there are some pretty cool sounds to try out. *To make the page easier to navigate to the suggested drum machines, I suggest you copy(<command>C) the name of the drum machine you want to try out - and then paste it(<command> V) into the "find" feature available on most browsers.  On Safari and Firefox for example, the find feature opens up if you press <command> F.   Open Mics in New York There are a few sites that list open mics in New York city - this one has proven to be the most up to date and the most comprehensive.