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 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.