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By Guitarify on August 21, 2013
The original Rocksmith had a lot going for it, but was made frustrating by a number of bad design decisions and technical issues. This new version, if it lives up to the description, looks nearly perfect. Just the fact that you can jump directly into the riff repeater from the middle of a song to […]
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By Guitarify on April 20, 2012
I have one copy of iReal b for Mac, and one for iOS to give away. To enter, leave a comment here or under the post on Facebook and mention which version you’d like to win, or if you’d like to win either version. You must be a Guitarify Facebook fan to win. The winners […]
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By Guitarify on November 11, 2011
Guitar Hero and Rockband are the reason I got serious about playing the guitar again after 15 years of just occasional noodling. Playing those games with my kids was close enough to the real experience of being in a band, to remind me how much I had loved it. But the plastic button approach was different enough […]
Posted in Learn | Tagged backing track, emulation, games, practice, tech
By Guitarify on July 15, 2010
simple metronome Using a metronome when practicing guitar is essential. Besides the obvious benefit of helping to develop your sense of timing and rhythm, a skill that many beginning guitarists overlook, it has many other benefits as well. By making you more conscious of when you are hitting the note you will have a tendency […]
Posted in Learn | Tagged backing track, free, lesson, metronome, practice
By Guitarify on April 27, 2010
While playing in a band is certainly the ultimate goal of many guitarists, getting to the point to where your confident enough in your abilities to go to that first audition takes lots of practice. And though playing along with a metronome is great for technique, it not always very inspiring. Backing tracks are songs […]
Posted in Learn, Record | Tagged backing track, practice |