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iReal b for iOS Give Away
Time for more free stuff! Up this time is another interesting piece of software called “iReal b”. This is a program, available for iOS, Mac, Android and Kindle Fire, that can play back chord charts as backing tracks. You can import charts or you can create your own. You then can adjust the style 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 [...]
Guitar Pro App on sale for $0.99
This is the mobile version for iPhone/iPad of the popular desktop program that allows you to read, write and playback tab files. I have this app and think it works great as a sketchpad for song ideas when you don’t have a guitar with you. And it’s great as a tab reader since it will [...]
Two Chances to Win a JamUp Bundle
The folks over at Positive Grid are clearly in the holiday giving spirit. Makers of the recently released JamUp Pro software that turns your iOS device (iPads,iPhones, Ipod Touch) into a virtual amp and pedalboard. And the JamPlug, the hardware which allows you to connect your guitar to said iOS device. The software currently has 6 different hybrid amp models [...]
Rocksmith Review
Guitar Hero and Rockband are the reason I got serious about playing the guitar again after 15 years of just occasional noodling. Playing those games with my kids was close enough to the real experience of being in a band, to remind me how much I had loved it. But the plastic button approach was different enough [...]