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Alfred Music Publishing and Musicnotes.com Partner to Honor Les Paul’s Memory with a Free Guitar Lesson Download of “Over the Rainbow”

Posted on Aug 27, 2009 by Bill Aicher (Director of Marketing).

Musicnotes.com has partnered with Alfred Music Publishing to offer music lovers everywhere a free Guitar Guru Session and guitar tab download of “Over the Rainbow” to honor Les Paul’s memory.

Now through midnight on September 2, 2009, visitors to Musicnotes.com can download a free, interactive Guitar Lesson (including matching guitar tab that’s worth $7.95) for “Over the Rainbow.” This particular arrangement was arranged by Grammy award-winning artist Aaron Stang, from Alfred Music Publishing to match the performance recorded by Les Paul and Chet Atkins and featured on the album, ‘Masters of the Guitar – Together.’

“Les Paul closed every show at the legendary jazz club Iridium in New York City with an instrumental version of this song,” said Tim Reiland, Chairman of Musicnotes.com. “This song has a very emotional meaning for musicians everywhere.”

In lieu of payment, Musicnotes and Alfred Music Publishing encourage users who choose to download the song to send donations to the Les Paul Foundation, 236 W. 30th St., Seventh Floor, New York, N.Y. 10001.

The free download is available online at http://www.musicnotes.com/free (now through midnight, September 2, 2009). Be sure to watch a video of Les Paul playing Over the Rainbow on YouTube!.

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Sessions to Help You Be Your Own Guitar Guru!

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Monica.

Think you’re well on your way to becoming a rock-n-roll guru? While the Guitar Guru Session for Stairway to Heaven remains our most popular Session, we’ve got a few surprises for you in our catalog that will challenge even the most experienced guitarist.

The nice thing about our Guitar Guru Sessions, is that you can choose songs to challenge yourself and your guitar playing skills. If you want to get better at playing the guitar, you’ll want to find songs that are more difficult than what you can master right now. For example, if you can play the “Advanced” Sessions that we offer, you might want to check out these Guru picks we’ve dubbed “Guitar God” for all you gurus out there.

These songs are guaranteed to qualify you as a “Guitar Guru.” Don’t forget, you get the tab along with the session so you can play these songs long after you learn them, too! Check back with us on Tuesday, May 26th for a new Green Day session and few other surprises.

Remember, our $1 off every Guru Session sale ends at midnight on May 31st, 2009 so don’t be afraid to grab an extra Session or two while the price is right. If you’ve got a song you want to learn how to play, you can suggest a Guitar Guru Session to us, too. Till next time, hope you’re having fun learning guitar!

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Guitar Guru Sessions for Songs Featured in Guitar Hero

Posted on Jan 13, 2009 by Monica.

Going through your song requests, we saw that some of you had asked for Guitar Guru Sessions for music from Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Video game sheet music is pretty interesting to track down because either music was specifically composed for the game, like with the Kingdom Hearts sheet music, or the game was designed using pre-existing songs. Rock Band and Guitar Hero both have used a lot of popular rock music in their design, so we were able to research pretty easily which songs have been featured in both of these popular video games.

We’ve compiled a list of Guitar Guru Sessions for songs that are featured in Guitar Hero in this post, and we’ll follow up with another one later this month about songs featured in Rock Band. There’s over 300 songs for us to still go through and see whether or not we’ll add a Guitar Guru Session to the list, so please — keep this link bookmarked and we will continue to update the post!

Thanks for your Guitar Guru Session requests! This post is for all of you music lovers out there, so hop on your guitar and learn your song! Don’t forget — every Guitar Guru Session we have also includes the corresponding guitar sheet music (also known as a guitar tab), so you can rock out long after you learn how to play it.
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New Watchmen Trailer Guitar Sheet Music is Take a Bow by Muse

Posted on Nov 19, 2008 by Monica.

If you love superheroes and science fiction, you probably are eagerly anticipating the March 6, 2009 release of “The Watchmen.” This movie is based on a graphic novel written by Alan Moore (V for Vendetta) and many fans can’t wait for the film to be released.

Watchmen takes place in an alternate history United States where the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. After government-sponsored superhero The Comedian is found murdered, the vigilante Rorschach warns his former colleagues of what he believes is a conspiracy to kill costumed heroes. As the story progresses, the protagonists discover that one of the heroes has devised a plan to stave off war between the United States and the USSR by carrying out a plan that will kill millions of innocent people. --SOURCE: Wikipedia

We’re very excited to announce that the second trailer for Watchmen has been released, and it features the song by UK artist, Muse. We’re working on the Guitar Guru version of this song, but we do have the vocals and guitar sheet music for Take a Bow by Muse. It’s a challenging song, so you might want to consider checking out the Guitar Guru Session for Take a Bow, too. If you’re looking for other “hit” songs from superhero movies, check out our post about sheet music from superhero movies and TV shows.

Watch the trailer below or visit the official Watchmen website. Feel free to share your thoughts about this upcoming film.

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