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Technology has had such an impact on everyday life. Everything from work to entertainment has experienced some form of technological innovation. In fact, even musicians have discovered new ways to nurture their talents through the use of technology. …
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Thomas Grapperon has just released SongKit , an AI-powered songbook app for iPhone and iPad. With SongKit, the user can edit or display songs with chords for pianos or guitar-like instruments (guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, …). The app …
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Playing the guitar can be empowering, it can be therapeutic and most of all, it can be fun. Creating music for others is something that has gone on for generations, often speaking to people in ways words cannot. Sadly, the ability to play the …
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Guitar tablature is a great, easy way to learn new songs, and most guitar players use it. Thanks to sites like ultimate-guitar.com, guitaretab.com, and 911tabs.com, it's easy to go on your computer and find a tab to nearly any song with just a few …
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The Amped Guitar App allows you to learn guitar at your own pace, from your phone, using an audio AR (augmented reality) process. If you are learning how to play guitar, you know that practice makes perfect. Finding the optimal time to practice …
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Guitar lesson apps make learning guitar more convenient than ever. While guitar lessons are easier to access than ever before from your laptop (and there are a lot of great lessons available from big players like Fender, and from local guitarists on …
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The One Click Tuner comes from the unlikely source of www.seqstat.com (short for 'Sequential Statistics'), a machine learning and algorithm-oriented site run by PhD researcher Josh Day. Not exactly your typical guitar tuner background... One …
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[UPDATE] January 22, 2019 - Arobas Music releases the Guitar Pro 7.5 with feature upgrades and demos at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Top features in Guitar Pro 7.5: Editing by simply clicking on the scoreYou can now edit most of the …
We’re a few days into 2019, but it’s worth taking a moment to see what guitar apps have been popular in 2018. There are some old standards and couple newbies. And, most importantly, these apps are continuing to be popular and …
Can you gamify music learning? I mean real music learning. Of course, you can become good at the Guitar Hero game. But that does not a musician make. So should musicians gamify the learning that goes into their serious pursuit of the craft? More …
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The typical backing track has a recording of drums, bass, keyboards, and maybe a few other instruments - all playing a song. You can pick up your guitar and play along. Backing tracks are incredibly useful for practicing guitar. They help to get …
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The Guitar Journal is curating playlists on Spotify! Follow us to keep up on music we're listening to. It'll include great fingerstyle guitar music, of course. But there's so much more out there to inspire us and stretch us as guitar players …
GUEST POST - Technology has changed the music industry beyond recognition over the last few years, but the musician’s main concern — how to make a sustainable income — remains the same as ever. Although it may seem that tech hasdone nothing but …
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ScoreCloud 4 was created by Sven Ahlbäck & Sven Emtell to make notating music easier. As guitarists, we know that notating guitar, particularly polyphonic "fingerstyle" guitar, can be tedious and difficult. There's a lot to pay attention to …
