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Shred with Dave Mustaine & Guitar Prodigy

If you’re into heavy metal and a fan of Megadeath, then this guitar learning app is right in your wheelhouse. Dave Mustaine himself teaches you everything from how to hold your guitar to shredding the Megadeath classics. The app is Dave Mustaine: Guitar Prodigy developed by Evolver.fm.

The app is $10 and includes a ton of feature like the abiltiy to pause lessons; rewind and fast-forward by swiping the screen (crucial, because you’re going to need to play some of these parts many times through in order to learn them); check note and chord names; tweak the mix between your guitar and Dave’s; slow down the song; loop sections; flip the fretboard over to lefty mode; and even take a break to tune your ax with an in-app guitar tuner.

via Wired.com

GuitarJack 2 Features Voice and Instrument Recording

Back in September 2010, Sonoma Wire Works released the first version of GuitarJack, an iOS interface for connecting your guitar to your app device. They’ve just released Model 2 which is compatible with more devices including iPhone 4, iPad 2, iPad, iPod touch (2nd, 3rd and 4th generation). GuitarJack Model 2 is also compatible with StudioTrack on iPad.

    • Model 2 adds an AD/DA converter.
    • Model 2 remembers your settings even if the iOS device sleeps.
    • Model 2 includes a spacer near the dock connector that helps keep the accessory flush with the iOS device, and allows use without removing most cases
    • Model 2 offers industrial design and metal finish improvements (was powder coated now black nickel plated with stainless steel side panels).

GuitarJack Model 2 is available at an introductory price of $149 at the Sonoma Wire Works Store.

via Press Release

Plectrum Guitar App Makers Raise $2.4M



Makers of the award-winning app for iPad® that teaches users to play string instruments (guitar, bass, banjo, ‘ukulele, and mandolin) in an interactive and game-like format, Miso Media has raised another $2.4M in funding from a group based in Hong Kong.

When it first launched, the app had fewer than two dozen songs available for download; it’s now up to over 400, and will have over 1000 songs by the end of the month (the company has partnered with several music labels to secure the rights to these songs.

Have you check out this app? What do you think of it?

via TechCrunch

Learn Eric Johnson’s “Cliffs of Dover” with iPad App

On The Music Path just released version 1.2 of it’s lesson app featuring Eric Johnson. In it, he teaches the art of the electric guitar with “Cliffs of Dover”. The lesson includes full notation and tab, and EJ breaks down the song, as you can see in the video above, playing the song at half-tempo and full-tempo, with a split-screen shot of his left and right hands.

    Get the On The Music Path App at iTunes

via Sonic State Amped

Blues Masters Free App Available



G-Man Productions and Cherry Lane Music have collaborated to develop “Blues Masters”, a free iPad app teaching you how to play 10 riff from blues great like Clapton, Vaughan, King, and Haynes.

This app includes:

    • Audio with text commentary for each riff
    • Video instruction for 1 video
    • Slow down each riff to 3/4 or 1/2 speed to help you learn it
    • Notes and tab, with animation, shows you what to play for each riff
    • Add your favorite licks to your “Hot List” for convenient retrieval
    • See a Bio page for each artist with the ability to listen to each of their licks, sorted by its place in the 12-bar progression; if you like a riff, tap on it to go straight from the Bio page to the Music page to learn it
    • A Hot List page for assembling your own 12-bar Hot List solo; choose six 2-bar licks sorted by lick number or artist to create a 12-bar solo and then play it as if the greats were trading licks with each other
    • Animate the whole progression while playing one of two backing tracks so you can play them with your own rhythm section (you can slow this down too!)
    • Everything is included; no Wi-Fi streaming is required
    • The ability to purchase all of the content in the paid version and/or more instruction videos
    • Licks from Duane Allman – Dickey Betts – Eric Clapton – Warren Haynes – Albert King – B.B. King – Stevie Ray Vaughan – Leslie West

There is a paid version available that inclued 109 additional riffs and video instruction.

Get it at iTunes.

via APPMODO