Five Online Guitar Magazines

Personally, nothing beats getting a copy of the Total Guitar or Guitar Techniques and subsequently placing myself in a chair in the sun in the garden or cuddling up on the couch with a cup of coffee. At the same time there is a wealth of magazines available online for free. Here are five of my favorites.

Guitar Player Magazine

One of my old guitar magazines of choice, has a substantial site for the guitar player with lessons, articles, interviews, gear reviews and more. A definite recommend.  Go and visit here >>>

Premier Guitar

A comprehensive guitar magazine with everything you may expect from a modern guitar magazine. Gear reviews, lessons, and more. Go visit the magazine here >>>

A free subscription to the digital version of the magazine is available, including the option to search back issues. A big recommend.

Interactive Guitar

Guitar Interactive is the world’s first fully interactive digital magazine for guitarists the world over – and it’s completely free! Drawing on the resources of Licklibrary – the internationally renowned music teaching resource – GI brings together expert players to analyse the styles and techniques of the world’s best guitarists, which you can see and hear in the hours of video that are in every issue.

An amazing new magazine and a very definite recommendation with a free subscription available here >>>. What appealed especially is the way in which the magazine actually reads like a magazine but on screen.

Total Guitar

One of my favorite magazines to pick up in the shop and read. It comes with a free CD/DVD with further instructions, lessons and play along tracks. Go see the magazine here >>>.

Guitar Techniques

It is through this magazine that I keep myself growing. Monthly lessons that push the beginner as well as the advanced players. Great magazine that comes with a CD/DVD with further information, lessons and sound samples. My favorite.

Go visit the site and magazine here >>>

What are your Favorite Guitar Magazines?

It is impossible I guess to be complete, else Id spend more time browsing and reading that playing. So I limited myself to five of my favorites here. What are some of your favorite music magazines and why?  I look forward to hearing about your recommendations.

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Free Guitar Tuner Software

PitchPerfect is a free guitar tuner download for Windows and Pocket PC. Simple to use, PitchPerfect eliminates the need of tuning a guitar conventionally and will automatically detect the note you are playing. You can simply tune your strings quickly and easily to any note you want.

This software is ideal for all guitar musicians. PitchPerfect is easy to use and will greatly improve the quality of your guitar’s sound.

Features

• Tune to absolutely any note you want.
• None of the constraints of conventional tuning patterns.
• Highly accurate pitch detection.
• Simple and intuitive interface.
• Tune your guitar through any available sound input device including Microphone or Line In.
• Excellent tool for checking fret board intonation.

Download Guitar Tuner

• Pitch Perfect Guitar Tuner for Windows
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Power Tab Editor: Great Freeware for Guitar and Bass

In the past period I have been trying out different ways of getting the computer to assist me in producing scores for guitar an tabs for guitar.

Being an Old Schooler I guess I still think that writing it down with a pen and paper works best for me but at the same time  do see the advantages of a computerized version to do this. Some om my previous posts with tab examples were made using this very program. So far I have been very impressed with the capabilities of this freeware program.

Power Tab Editor is a tablature authoring tool for the Windows operating system. It is intended to be used to create guitar sheet music, more commonly known to musicians as guitar tabs and bass tab. The program provides the most commonly used symbols in tablature, including chord names, chord diagrams, rhythm slashes, bends, slides, hammer-ons/pull-offs, harmonics and palm muting. A useful piece of software for people who want to learn how to play guitar, and for experienced guitarists who want to transcribe their own music and/or guitar lessons. The software can be used by both acoustic and electric guitar players alike. It has the option of writing bass tabs.

Especially attractive from my point of view is that it whilst it departs from the tabs as starting point it also shows normal music notation.

A definite recommend from my side despite some of its limitations. A very good price/quality ratio.

You can download the software here >>>

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