drawingnow.com
DrawingNow is an educational resource for documentaries, courses, books, reference material, or self-learning.
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Skills & Hobbies
Skills and hobbies points to places for learning a craft, a game, or an instrument at your own pace. Entries range from drawing courses and photography lessons to chess and Go servers, music practice aids, and study guides for a specific pursuit. They differ in how they teach, since some walk through a structured course while others are forums and reference pages that grew from a community. When you pick one, look at the level it assumes, whether feedback comes from an instructor or from other learners, and how much of the material is free before you commit time.
erowid.org
Erowid is a non-profit educational and harm-reduction resource with a large online library about psychoactive drugs, plants, chemicals and technologies. It documents traditional, spiritual and responsible use, and covers health, effects, experiences, research, chemistry, law and media coverage.
f2l-trainer.top
F2L Trainer is an educational resource for documentaries, courses, books, reference material, or self-learning.
fachords.com
FaChords Guitar is a guitar learning site created by a guitar teacher. It offers lessons, interactive tools and free PDF ebooks on chords, scales, progressions and the fretboard. The site states that most content is free and was built in part as study support for the author's students.
forums.qrz.com
Forums is an educational resource for documentaries, courses, books, reference material, or self-learning.
gitori.com
Gitori is an educational resource for documentaries, courses, books, reference material, or self-learning.
gokibitz.com
GoKibitz is an educational resource for documentaries, courses, books, reference material, or self-learning.
goproblems.com
GoProblems is an educational resource for documentaries, courses, books, reference material, or self-learning.
graphicscodex.com
The Graphics Codex is a digital reference and learning resource for 3D computer graphics by Morgan McGuire. It contains 400 cross-referenced equation and diagram entries and 14 chapters on physically-based shading and rendering, with programming projects and citations to primary sources. It is a purchased app with monthly free updates.
guitarscale.org
GuitarScale.org is a website that presents music scales for guitar and bass guitar through diagrams and supplementary information. Scales are shown in octave-based, shape-based and full fretboard diagram styles, with collapsible panels covering scale degrees, related chords and theory. The site states it shows no ads and offers ebooks for support.
guitarsix.com
Guitarsix is an educational resource for documentaries, courses, books, reference material, or self-learning.
hamexam.org
HamExam.org offers free practice exams and flash cards for the Technician, General, and Amateur Extra amateur radio question pools. The site was built in 2003 and requires no sign-up for practice; a free account adds question prioritization and progress tracking across sessions.
hamstudy.org
HamStudy.org provides free amateur radio flash cards, practice tests, and question pools, along with question explanations and an introduction to ham radio. Study material is organized by exam, including Technician, General, Amateur Extra, and other question pools; user registration is free.
helio.fm
Helio is an open-source music sequencer for desktop and mobile platforms. Its documentation covers hotkeys, refactoring options and arpeggiators. The project aims to rethink the music sequencer with a minimalistic, distraction-free interface and an emphasis on clear design over cleverness, encouraging experimentation in areas such as exotic scales and microtonal temperaments.
hypercubing.xyz
Hypercubing is the hobby of solving twisty puzzles such as the Rubik's cube in higher dimensions. Twisty puzzle movements are mathematically defined and can be generalized to higher spatial dimensions, with the puzzles visualized and simulated using computer software. The site offers an introduction to 4D, an FAQ, hypercubing software downloads, a progression section and a Discord server.
instructables.com
Instructables is an educational resource for documentaries, courses, books, reference material, or self-learning.
jamstart.app
JamStart is a music theory and ear-training tool that works with Spotify playlists. It provides key, mode, BPM, chord charts, scale charts and circle-of-fifths information for songs, and allows filtering songs by key or mode. Users can search a database and view or edit playlists.
josekipedia.com
Josekipedia is an educational resource for documentaries, courses, books, reference material, or self-learning.
justinguitar.com
JustinGuitar is an educational resource for documentaries, courses, books, reference material, or self-learning.
learningsynths.ableton.com
Learning Synths is an interactive website from Ableton for learning about synthesizers. It lets users play with a synth in a browser and learn the parts of a synth to make their own sounds.
libraryofjuggling.com
The Library of Juggling is an attempt to list popular and less popular juggling tricks in one organized place. It collects and animates juggling patterns, including iconic tricks such as the Cascade and Shower alongside others like Romeo's Revenge and the 531 Mills Mess. Tricks are organized by difficulty and by the number of balls used, from three-ball patterns through six-ball patterns.
lightnote.co
Lightnote offers basic music theory lessons presented as interactive mini-lessons without complicated jargon or confusing notation. The lessons cover how sound works as a wave and harmony, and aim to help learners make their own music, chord progressions and melodies. The site states that no instruments are required.
lilypond.org
LilyPond is a free music engraving program in the GNU Project that produces sheet music through text input. Its style settings, font designs and algorithms are inspired by hand-engraved music. It handles classical music, complex notation, tablature, vocal music, lead sheets and orchestral projects.
line-of-action.com
Line of Action provides reference photos and practice tools for visual artists, including figure drawing, animal drawing, hands and feet drawing and face and expression practice. A fifteen-minute tutorial introduces the tools. The site was built and maintained by one person, with original features provided free.