Gear Warrior, from the outside

The network’s buying site: who makes it, who sells it, and a plain case for what to spend money on.

Every site below is free, ad-free and account-free, and every one of them owns exactly one subject. The “covers” column is the subject that site is the network’s single home for; nothing in it is taught anywhere else, and the sites link to each other at the point where somebody else’s answer is better than their own.

Follow a name for this portal’s fuller page about that site — what you will actually find there, who it is written for, and what it deliberately leaves to somebody else — before you decide to leave.

Every site on the Warrior Network, with the subject it covers, the reader it is written for, and whether it is open yet.
Site Covers Written for Status
String Warrior many string instruments at once Someone who owns more than one string instrument, or who keeps asking “what does this look like on the other one?” Open
Theory Warrior music theory with no instrument attached A player whose hands already know a thing and who now wants to know what it is called and why it works. Open
Keys Warrior the keyboard Pianists, synth players and producers — anyone whose instrument has no frets to count. Open
Ukulele Warrior the ukulele family Anyone who picked up a ukulele expecting a small guitar and found it is its own instrument. Open
Bass Warrior the bass Bass players, and guitarists who have just been handed a bass at a rehearsal. Open
Mandolin Warrior the mandolin family Mandolin players, and fiddlers curious about the same tuning under their fingers instead of under a bow. Open
Guitar Warrior the guitar Guitarists — from a first open chord to somebody mapping the neck properly for the first time. Open
Banjo Warrior the banjo Banjo players of any vintage, and anyone who has worked out that the fingerpicks are the hard part. Open
Fiddle Warrior bowed strings Fiddlers and violinists, and mandolin players who want to hear their tunes bowed. Open
Ear Warrior hearing, rather than playing A player who can already play the thing and still cannot hear it coming. Open
Bluegrass Warrior a genre, and how its band works Someone with an instrument they can play and a first jam they have not been to yet. Open
Country Warrior a genre, and the song underneath it Someone who already has the changes and needs to know what to play under them. Open
Nashville Warrior a notation, not an instrument Anyone who has been handed a page of numbers and had about one second to work out what to play. Open
Mariachi Warrior an ensemble that plays in sections, not turns Someone standing in a section who needs to play the same thing as the person beside them. Open
Jazz Warrior a genre, and the tune as it gets called Someone who can already play the chords and wants to know what a tune actually does. Open
Tres Warrior the Cuban tres Treseros, and anyone who keeps hearing son records and wants to know what that rippling line actually is. Open
Charango Warrior the charango Charanguistas, and anyone who has heard a huayño’s driving strum and wants to know what the whole hand is doing. Open
Cavaquinho Warrior the cavaquinho Cavaquinistas, and anyone who has heard a samba or choro record and wants to know what that clicking, chopping rhythm actually is. Open
Sitar Warrior the sitar Sitarists, and anyone who has heard a raga unfold and wants to know why none of it maps cleanly onto a Western chord chart. Open
Oud Warrior the oud Oudists, and anyone who has heard a taqsim bend past the piano’s twelve notes and wants to know what the chart is leaving out. Open
Cuatro Warrior both cuatros — Puerto Rican and Venezuelan Cuatristas of either tradition, and anyone who went shopping for a cuatro and found two different instruments. Open
Gear Warrior the equipment around an instrument, not the instrument itself Someone deciding what to buy rather than what to play — a set of strings, a first pedal, an amp, or which shop to trust. Being built

What “being built” means

A site marked as being built lives in the same codebase, passes the same validators, and is not open to readers yet. Its page here carries no outgoing link — a link to an unfinished site is a link nobody wants — and the link appears on its own, with no edit to this page, on the day that site launches.

The one site here about everything surrounding what you play — the companies behind it, the shops that stock it, and a plain case for what to spend money on.

What you will find there

  • brand and maker records, so a product doors up to who actually built it
  • retailer records — who stocks a thing and where — with a corrections page on every entry
  • buying-decision writeups for strings, pedals, amps and the rest, sourcing disclosed rather than hidden

Who it is for

Someone deciding what to buy rather than what to play — a set of strings, a first pedal, an amp, or which shop to trust.

What it leaves to somebody else

It draws no fretboard and teaches no technique — a chord, a scale or a tuning question belongs to the instrument site, not here.

Gear Warrior is not open to readers yet, so there is nothing to link to; this page is here so you know it is coming.