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Add Tabs to any YouTube Video with SoundSlice
This is pretty cool. There’s a new website – SoundSlice.com, that has a really intuitive, yet powerful way to create guitar tabs for any video on youtube. All you need to do is sign up for a free account, search for a video on youtube, and then begin writing the tab, which is synched with [...]
Thousands of Free Songs from SXSW Artists
SXSW is an annual music and arts festival that takes place in Austin Texas. For the past 8 years the festival has released songs by the groups featured at the event. These songs can be downloaded in bulk from the unofficial SXSW torrent site at - http://www.sxswtorrent.com/ This year’s collection alone includes 1,219 files totaling 7.52GB. Over [...]
Rock Prodigy:Guitar – Free for this week only
This is another iOS app that’s currently free, though it normally is only $0.99. The promotion did have it’s intended effect on me, having me download it and check it out. Basically, it’s sort of like RockSmith. With the usual stream of numbers coming down the fretboard that you have to play in sync. It [...]
Pump Up Your Practice With GuitarCardio & Scale Variator
Running scales, modes, arpeggios and all kinds of other patterns are a fact of life for guitarists. Usually the point of such practice can be to help your brain and fingers connect with where a note is on the fretboard. Or they could be methods for improving speed, accuracy or stamina. The downside of this [...]
TC Electronic Introduces Revolutionary TonePrint App for iPhone
TC Electronic hinted at their next product with a bizarre ‘teaser’ video that had most guitar fans baffled. There were guitar pickups, an iPhone and a lego robot…right. If you haven’t seen it, click – HERE. Well the product turned out to be as strange as the video. TC Electronics makes a line of pedals [...]