What is Guitar Guru?
Guitar Guru is software that turns your PC or Mac into your own personal guitar teacher. You control the pace, as the virtual fretboard shows you how to play every note and chord of your favorite songs from start to finish. Guitar Guru songs are so accurate that they play in sync with the original tracks from your CDs and MP3s! Guru is a licensed product produced by professional musicians, and every song includes authentic guitar tablature, notation and lyrics you print instantly. The Guru player is free software and comes with dozens of samples for you to try.
Is Guitar Guru for you?
Instructional guitar content of all kinds can be found on the Internet! Tabs, videos, online subscription lessons, and many promises you will learn to play in an incredibly short time. So, is Guitar Guru for you? Straight up, here's what Guitar Guru is and what it is not:
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Testimonials
Here are some reviews by Guitar Guru customers (reprinted here with permission from Musicnotes.com).
Learn This Song Quickly
I'm just beginning to realize how quickly you can learn songs with Guitar Guru... The visual clues allow you to learn a song much quicker than you would with just the sheet music... I highly recommend this product.
Led Zeppelin Battle of Evermore Review
Amazingly accurate Guitar Guru transposition for Guitar actually playing the Mandolin parts of this song! Saved me many hours of hard work and frustration. Had the song note for note perfected in less then an hour.
Nice job - very easy to learn
This was much cheaper than a lesson. I've always loved this song, and the Guitar Guru software makes it about as easy as it can get to learn, at you own pace.
Hotel California Review
This is a classic rock song which it's worth to play. I would take way too much time to figure out all the details by myself. The guitar guru is really amazing..!!!
Cult Of Personality Guitar Guru + Sheet Music
Guitar Guru session is accurate, well thought out and incorporates all the minor bends, slurs and phrases not seen in most tabs of this song. The session is very thorough when it comes to the two solos... All in all this session and manuscript was very helpful, was extremely informative and meticulous.
Hey Joe - Review
The intro licks and chorus are "spot on" Hendrix... Impress yourself and your audience by kicking out a little Hendrix. I purchased Hey Joe for the Guitar Guru session and was quite pleased to learn that it also came with the complete sheet music. Well worth the purchase price.
Tears in Heaven
Guitar Guru ability to slow it down not only helped me learn the song, but also improved my guitar playing in general. The guitar tab is right on.
Great first guitar "session" for us
This is a great song that my son and I have been practicing for a few days now. Its really what has sold me on Guitar Guru and I hope they have more great Christian songs coming. My wife was able to tell what I was playing after just a few minutes with this song ... which, considering how I play, is saying a lot!
Nice
This Guitar Guru session nailed pretty much everything related to guitars in this studio recorded version of American Woman song. The popular riff in the verses, good, accurate, easy... Great session overall. Also good for beginners/intermediates.
Blackbird
The guitar arrangement for this song has always seemed beyond me. But I was determined to finally learn it! ...by adding Guitar Guru to the package the learning process was actually easy and fun!
Perfect Song for a beginner
This song is perfect for any beginner who's just learning how to play. Speaking as one myself, I am learning my notes quickly and with guitar guru and this session, it is becoming easier and easier. The song syncs perfectly with the digital display and is awesome.
Guitar Guru is a must for this song!
I was so worried about not being prepared for an ensemble in two weeks. The Guitar Guru helped me learn the song much faster than just staring at the tab.
Great song
This was one of the first sessions I bought. I was surprised at how quickly I was able to learn the main riff considering I had only started playing guitar...
Awesome song!
There is no way I would be able to learn this song just with tabs. Being able to see it play out on the Guitar Guru made learning this song so much easier. ...I was able to learn almost all of the guitar parts in just a few days.
Surprised
This was one of my first guitar guru purchases, I was pleasantly surprised at how fast I learned this song. ...I now have a program that teaches me the way my husband taught me (by copying the finger placements) and now I have sheet music to see where the notes I am playing are written out. I find I also learn much faster this way! It only took me two practice sessions to learn this song! Thank you Guitar Guru and Music Notes! I am a lifelong fan now!
Stairway to Heaven guru
This Guru session is very complete. It has the arrangements for all of the guitars (acoustic, both 6 and 12 string electrics) I have been working my way through the entire piece along side the CD and it sounds spot on. Guru in general is a big help if you somethimes sruggle with the organization of both your hands particularly if you dont read music and are just using the tab.
Jeff Buckley's - Hallelujah
I was tempted to by the arrangement for 99 cents from another music site as I thought I would not need the guitar guru feature. I decided to give the guru a shot and now I must say that by having the accurate sheet music AND guitar guru I could really learn this piece and practice it with the guru until perfected. I am sold!...
SWEET HOME ALABAMA
WHAT MORE CAN YOU SAY? A FOOT STOMPIN' CLASSIC TUNE THAT REALLY GETS THE BLOOD FLOWING. I AM GLAD GURU MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO ENJOY THIS TUNE AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!! A REAL MUST HAVE!!!
Very good quality
This song has been done so many ways by David Gilmore that it's hard to get it down but this version of the song has all the licks you need to make it sound like you wrote the song and I highly recommend it.
black bird review
The music notes are easy to follow and the ability to slow down the tempo to learn at my own pace is a nice learning tool and the tab is very accurate to the original music. This is a great resource to learn the songs versus buying standard tabbed sheet music.
Great song! Great lesson!
This was the first Guitar Guru Session I purchased about a year and a half ago. Considering it is shown to be an intermediate level song, I was surprised at how it easy it was to learn. The fingerings and neck positions are very easy to remember. The finger-picking pattern is fairly simple too. I highly recommend this song to anyone!
My first song
This is the first real song I'm trying. Out of all the programs I've tryed, This one is the best one. Love Guitar Guru.
Oh Sweet Home
This is a great song to learn and sounds impressive. Learned all of the first gutar pretty easily but haven't attempted the solo yet. Would definitely recommend getting this gutar guru session.
Fun and Easy Song
Guitar Guru really makes this song easy to learn... I always have a hard time learning Alex' lead parts but the Guitar Guru helps by allowing me to slow it down. Have fun with this one, I highly recommend it.
no excuses
I already had the tabs and sheet music but they really don't give all of the strumming info. This was exactly what I needed, and it was very accurate.
El Paso
...I highly reccomend the Guitar Guru program and El Paso to anyone wanting to learn accurate songs on guitar.
Old Man
Other than my lack of ability this tab was excellent. I love the guitarguru software. The fact that I can slow down the song is a definite plus.
Puddle of Mudd / She Hates Me
Excellent tablature for a great song. The Guru comes through. Easy to learn each section with the guru slowing it down.
A Classic
This is always an awesome tune to learn...Although it is difficult, a little patience and you can own this tune, Guru really makes it a much easier song to learn...AAA+++
Good, easy to learn riffs!
...Guitar Guru makes everything so much easier to learn. The solo has a nice bendy-bluesy sound to it, and is always fun to play, or if youve already learned it, its great to improvise over or put your own style on it. Great song, Great product!
Its a strummer
This is a catchy little tune. Its more of a strumming piece, so its not very difficult to learn. The best part is that its available via Guitar Guru. It takes any guesswork out of the strum pattern.
A nice mellow tune
This tune is a smooth easy tune to play, and enjoy. Tom pettey is a fav of mine, and FreeFallin is easy to learn with guru
Bad Day review
It's a simple but nice song. The guitar guru is really amazing..!!!
An awesome song to learn
I'm a beginner at guitar but Guitar Guru made it possible for me, so unskilled guitarist to learn the melody. Great song by the way, can't stop listening to it ? Learn then (just like I did) ! A good thing to spend money on ! Guitar Guru rocks !!
Great
...pretty easy to learn which made me love Guitar Guru. Once I got into the solo and practiced it, got the hang practicing it then my lead playing and overall dexterity increased alot...
Great Product!
...the Guitar Tabs are extremely accurate, the Guitar Solos are perfect and it gives you all the Rhythm parts too, so you can mix up your playing a bit. The Guitar Guru helps me understand certain parts of the tab or help me figure out the timings which would take me a long time to figure by myself...
brilliant
ive searched for ages for the perfect tab for this song and i think ive found it
This song is beautiful!!
A must have for anyone wanting to learn this song quickly. Definitely worth the price.
easy as ^*
...get this n play the digital music with your wma or mp3 file. they are deadly in sync! :)