The Guitar Players Club

If you're a guitar player, and I'm guessing you are since you're here, here's a site that you must that a look at. It's Musicnotes.com, and it's a fantastic place to get sheet music, but it's much more than that.

I'm probably a little older than many of you reading this, and in my early days when you (I) wanted to learn a solo to a song, it was a matter of getting the LP (remember those ?), setting the turntable on (161/2) rpm

(half speed) and spending many long hours trying to pick out a few notes, lifting the needle, setting it back to where you where able to copy to, then repeating, over and over again.

Obviously, with the state of current technology there are both hardware and software remedies to overcome the old 'record copying' burden. I know most that are available and have used many. Most of the hardware solutions are expensive and some of the software options are okay, but not as complete as what sells sheet music and they're a great resource. However, when I first saw the Guitar Guru software and what it does, I was blown away. For a reasonable fee, you purchase the song you want, print the sheet music so you always have a hard copy of the complete song, but you also get the Guitar Guru file to play via the free player. Obviously it has to be a piece of music that has an associated Guitar Guru file. If you purchase a Chopin classical piece there would be no Guiatr Guru file for it.

As far as music goes, they have an extensive selection and are constantly adding more. I grew up on what is now known as 'classic rock', (God I'm Old) and have a special fondness for bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eagles, The Beatles and Led Zepplin, just to name a few. I've bought many of the songs that I spent untold hours on trying to learn the solos to. There's also many different genres and artists to choose from. Now it's a matter of loading up the Guitar Guru file and watching it being played at whatever speed I want. It doesn't get any better than that.

Well, it's a little late to make this a short post, and although I can't say enough good things about Musicnotes.com and their Guitar Guru software, I'll close by saying, please do yourself a favor and go check it out, I guarantee you won't be sorry.

Oh, I almost forgot, they also have TAB, music for the bass, voice, drums and piano, plus lots of other great resources available.

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