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Becoming A 'Rock Prodigy' With A Single Mobile App?

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All guitar players, from beginner to advanced, can now reach prodigy status with the launch of a new mobile application, Rock Prodigy™, that teaches users how to play a real guitar, any guitar, with the help of an Apple® iPhone®, iPad® or iPod® Touch. Using polyphonic pitch-recognition, Rock Prodigy allows all guitar players to learn, experience and absorb the music from legendary rock guitarists including James Hetfield of Metallica, Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead and Joe Trohman of Fall Out Boy.

The app immerses users in original master recordings of popular guitar-centric songs, while simultaneously providing real-time feedback as players strum along with a real guitar. The interactive app also has the ability to auto-pause and uses tab-like performance cues for all four levels of play, which show precise rhythm, timing and note durations with real-time interaction and performance evaluation.

Allowing players to learn on the go, Rock Prodigy requires no additional hardware as guitarists can play directly into their mobile devices using the built-in microphone, a standard headset with microphone or a basic line-in guitar input adapter.

Posted by Andrew Apanov 

Ultimate Guitar Tabs iPhone app beats I Am T-Pain out of the #1 spot

We made it. Ultimate Guitar Tabs is the most popular app in the Music section of the App Store.

Here's the official press release for the app, I haven't posted it before:

Ultimate-Guitar.com officially announces the launch of Ultimate Guitar Tabs, an easy and convenient application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that allows guitarists to access guitar tablatures, bass tablatures and chords from the world's largest online database of tabs.

In just over a week since its debut, Ultimate Guitar Tabs has rocketed to the number one spot in the iTunes App Store’s top paid music downloads category, and is in the top 50 paid downloads overall, earning four and five star ratings and rave reviews from users.

The app is the latest offering from Ultimate Guitar’s mobile applications division, which designs and develops music-related, multi-platform gaming and music applications for Ultimate Guitar, its network of sites and third parties.

"We are pleased to offer musicians a vehicle for accessing tabs via their mobile devices, and excited by the immediate success of Ultimate Guitar Tabs," said Ultimate Guitar’s founder Eugeny Naidenov. "We are building a media company that includes a mobile platform to connect musicians with music and each other - anywhere, anytime."

With over 10 million visitors per month worldwide and more than two million messages posted, as well as the largest library of licensed guitar tabs on the web, Ultimate Guitar is the Internet’s largest and fastest growing social media site for the guitar enthusiast community.

Ultimate Guitar Tabs allows users to browse Ultimate Guitar’s collection of more than 300,000 tabs with an array of search tools and features including:  

• Simple Search. Find Tabs quickly by entering artist name or song title.
• Advanced Search. Search by Tab type (guitar Tabs, chords, bass Tabs), part of the song (intro, solo, chorus), difficulty level, tuning, and rating.
• Favorites. Add any Tab to your favorites to make them available for offline browsing.
• Tab Packs. Collections of pre-loaded, pre-selected such as skills level (Easy, Medium, Advanced), music genres (Rock, Metal, Punk), and special occasions (Love songs, Xmas songs). Tab Packs are frequently updated.
• Top 100 Tabs. Listed by Tab type (Guitar, Bass, Chords and overall).
• Auto-scroll. View Tablature in the text viewer using the handy Auto-Scroll functionality - The App will scroll Tabs for you!
• Portrait and Landscape modes.

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Gibson releases its own free iPhone app

Gibson Guitar has announced the launch of the Gibson Guitar App. This free App is available exclusively for all Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users directly from the Apple App Store. "This is one App every guitarist and fan of Gibson Guitar must own," the press release says. "Over the past two years over 3 Billion Apps have been downloaded around the world, the Gibson Guitar App cements Gibson’s reputation as the industry’s leader in innovation and music technology.

"The Gibson Guitar App includes a number of special features, such as a traditional chromatic tuner which starts in “All Notes” mode that tracks whatever is played. Owners of the App can choose a tuning on the “Mode” page so the tuner will only track notes for that particular tuning. Also included is a standard chromatic tuner, a simple tuner which allows less advanced users to tune to Standard tuning Open G, Open D etc by touching the key. For iPhone users, the Gibson headstock inlay will automatically change color indicating if the string is sharp, flat or in tune. For iPod Touch users they can turn the “Play Notes” option on so they can hear the appropriate tuning since they do not have a microphone facility.

"The Gibson app also features a standard metronome that allows users to choose a specific BPM or tap the screen three times to automatically set the tempo. Other key features of the app include over 30 chord charts with finger markings to help the user with mastering the chord. For those who prefer to learn new guitar riffs, licks or chord sequences via video tuition can now have that option from their Gibson App. The app will be updated frequently with new video content so users of all guitar ability can improve their technique from the comfort of their home."

What can I say - well done Gibson!

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