Guitar Guru

Posted on November 06th, 2008 in Product Reviews

What is Guitar Guru..?
Guitar Guru provides interactive song sessions designed to help you learn guitar and teach you how to play your favorite songs.
Our song-based learning software complements guitar tablature by providing additional, detailed instructions that guitar tab alone is unable to provide.

Learn how to play your favorite songs as the virtual fretboard guides you through the music at your own pace and plays in sync with your CDs, WMA files, or the included MIDI audio. Dozens of samples are provided, and over 1,000 full songs are available showing every note, chord and effect. Plus, every song includes a printable copy of the publisher’s genuine tablature. This version is the first release on musicnotes.com.

How Does It Work..?

Guitar Guru teaches guitarists of all skill levels how to play hundreds of songs from a multitude of genres by using a variety of intuitive, easy-to-use tools, including:

Detailed, note-by-note instructions for all guitar parts in a song

Virtual fret board displays proper fingerings in real-time

Choose colored dots, numbers, or dots and numbers to represent fingerings

Adjustable playback/learning tempo (up to 300%)
NEW! Voice Command

Keep your hands on your guitar: control nearly every function of Guitar Guru using simple voice commands.

MIDI, CD-Synched Audio or Windows Media File (WMA)-synched Audio

Use your CD or WMA files as an audio track, or use the included MIDI.

Step-Through Playback Function

Step through each event (fingering change, strum, etc.) at any speed using the arrow keys on your keyboard.
Repeat an event using the down arrow on your keyboard.

Customizable display with additional guitar skins

Learn on acoustic, electric or bass guitar.
Learn the bass parts with Bass Guru Sessions.

Includes printable guitar tab for the purchased song!

Guitar Guru Sessions to assist guitar players of all skill levels in quickly learning to play their favorite songs.
With this introduction, you’ll learn how Guitar Guru Sessions allow aspiring guitarists to hear the music and see the left and right hand movements across a realistic guitar simultaneously, choose between computer-generated audio or use the audio CD (on select pieces), playback at variable speeds, select subtracks, set ranges, loop, and more.
But above all, you’ll see why Guitar Guru Sessions are the easiest and most intuitive way to learn not only how to play songs, but the basic skills necessary for any guitarist.

What Are Guitar Guru Sessions?

Guitar Guru Sessions are song lessons designed to teach an individual how to play his or her favorite songs.
Using an intuitive new approach to the standard lesson, our Sessions offer a hands-on demonstration akin to your own personal guitar teacher.

How Guitar Guru Sessions Work

Using a unique approach removing the need for standard music notation or traditional guitar tablature, Guitar Guru Sessions play the original music and simultaneously show both left and right hand movements on a realistic guitar display.
On the fingerboard, a dot’s color indicates which finger to use. Similarly, whenever a string is struck by a finger on the pick-hand, a colored dot appears over the string in the pick-hand view. On songs best played with a pick, proper pick action is displayed.

Why Use Guitar Guru Sessions?

TThe benefits of using Guitar Guru Sessions include:

Ease: Our visual instructions teach you how to play guitar easier than ever before
Large & Growing Song Catalog: We have an extensive selection of your favorite songs, each

with accompanying sheet music or guitar tablature

Attention to Detail: Sessions are designed to match the original recording’s nuances as accurately as possible
Affordability: Only choose the songs you want, plus fewer guitar lessons will save you time and money
Speed: You can download Guitar Guru Sessions and start learning within seconds

About the Sessions

With a keen attention to detail, every Guitar Guru Session is created by an experienced team of programmers and guitarists.
This ensures that every riff, note and ornament is captured, resulting in a more thorough tutorial one could ever receive with standard tablature, sheet music, or even a one-on-one lesson.
Each piece also includes professional quality digital notation and lyrics to reference for additional help, that can be printed out at time of purchase.

Guitar Guru Sessions in Action

Many songs are precisely synchronized with the original recordings. Guitar Guru will find the appropriate track on your audio CD to play in synch with the visual notation.
An audio CD is not required, however. The option to play computer generated (MIDI) audio is also included, where guitar techniques such as bends, slides, vibratos and tremolos are accurately reproduced.

Guitar Guru Playback Controls

In addition to the common CD player functions such as Play, Pause, Stop, and Repeat, other options are included to adjust the playback speed, set specific start/stop points, loop continuously, and jump to specific passages such as choruses and solos.

Additional Playback Control Features:

Song selector.
Passage / guitar part selector.
Resizable fingerboard.
Adjustable tempo slider.
Start and stop flags to select an individual phrase.
Loop / Repeat function.
Chord display / guitar tuner.
MIDI / CD audio selector.

How Much Does It Cost?

Learning how to play a song from a guitar teacher can be expensive; our Guitar Guru Sessions are affordable with most songs under $10.

The Guitar Guru Session file downloaded to you computer containing all of the passages to the song.
Both digital and printed copies of the sheet music or guitar tab for the song you select.
Unlimited use of your purchased song and unlimited free previews of any of the songs in our library.

Start Today!

Guitar Guru is the definitive guitar teacher, providing you with the most intuitive approach to learning your favorite songs.

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