All Guitar Guru Sessions are now priced at twenty-five percent off. Sale ends at midnight on January 31st.

The prices for Guitar Guru Sessions typically range from $6.95 through $9.95, and depend upon the length of the Session. At twenty-five percent off, you can pick up your favorite Sessions priced between $5.21 and $7.46.

About Guitar Guru: Guitar Guru provides interactive song sessions designed to help teach you how to play your favorite songs on guitar.

Our song-based learning software acts as your personal guitar teacher, allowing you to interact with the song to help you learn fingering, techniques and more. Each Guitar Guru Session is accompanied by a guitar tab for your song.

Our Top 50 Picks for Guitar Guru

2009 was an awesome year for Guitar Guru, because we were able to fulfill a number of your requests. We’ve added new interactive guitar lessons for several songs performed by your favorite artists including: Dave Mathews, Guns n’ Roses, John Mayer, Metallica and several others.

In this list, we highlight fifty brand new sessions for some amazing songs. Check them out:

1 Dammit by Blink-182
2 Everyday by Buddy Holly
3 Accidentally In Love by Counting Crows
4 Leader of the Band by Dan Fogelberg
5 Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews Band
6 Free Ride by Edgar Winter Group
7 Times Like These by Foo Fighters
8 Juke Box Hero by Foreigner
9 21 Guns by Green Day
10 Welcome to the Jungle by Guns ‘n Roses
11 Hold My Hand by Hootie & the Blowfish
12 Closer to Fine by Indigo Girls
13 Bad Things by Jace Everett / from ‘True Blood’
14 Banana Pancakes by Jack Johnson
15 Jane Says by Jane’s Addiction
16 Big Green Tractor by Jason Aldean
17 I’m Yours by Jason Mraz
18 Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer
19 Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey
20 I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry
21 All Summer Long by Kid Rock
22 Use Somebody by Kings of Leon
23 Me and Bobby McGee by Kris Kristofferson
24 Funkytown by Lipps, Inc.
25 Dixie Chicken by Little Feat
26 Enter Sandman by Metallica
27 Beat It by Michael Jackson
28 The Climb by Miley Cyrus
29 Gotta Be Somebody by Nickelback
30 Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne
31 Love Is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar
32 So What by Pink
33 1, 2, 3, 4 by Plain White T’s
34 Super Freak by Rick James
35 Unfaithful Servant by Robbie Robertson
36 The Joker by Steve Miller Band
37 Fat Lip by Sum 41
38 White Horse by Taylor Swift
39 Up on Cripple Creek by The Band
40 Surfin’ Safari by The Beach Boys
41 A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles
42 Slide by The Goo Goo Dolls
43 Louie, Louie by The Kingsmen
44 Today by The Smashing Pumpkins
45 The Boys Are Back in Town by Thin Lizzy
46 Sober by Tool
47 Fight the Good Fight by Triumph
48 Jump by Van Halen
49 Check Yes Juliet by We the Kings
50 Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry

Are you a Broadway sheet music fan? You can now download arrangements of sheet music from SCROOGE: the MUSICAL. Songs include I Hate People, Christmas Children, Thank You Very Much and many more!

Songs from the Winter Holiday 2009 Suggest-a-Song Contest!

We’d like to extend a HUGE “Thank You” to all of you who suggested a song for our Winter Holiday 2009 Suggest-a-Song Contest! Our staff has started to review your suggestions and we have already added some of your requests, some of which were suggested several times!

• ‘Zat You, Santa Claus? by Louis Armstrong
• Medley of Sleigh Ride and Marshmallow World by Kristin Chenoweth
• Home on Christmas Day by Kristin Chenoweth
• When the River Meets the Sea by Paul Williams from EMMET OTTER’S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS

We will be awarding a twenty five dollar gift certificate to the first commenter who suggested one of these titles sometime early next week. Watch the blog for more updates as we continue to review your Winter Holiday 2009 song suggestions! Thank you so much for your recommendations!

$4.95 Sale on all Christmas Guitar Guru Sessions!

From now until midnight, December 25, 2009, enjoy an average $2.00 savings on all of our Christmas Guitar Guru Sessions! Typically our Guitar Guru Sessions are $6.95 each, our limited-time sale price on these Christmas songs is only $4.95!

Enjoy the low price of $4.95 on all Christmas Guitar Guru Sessions from now until midnight, December 25, 2009!

Remember, each guitar lesson also comes with a corresponding guitar tab, too. Here are a few popular Christmas Guitar Guru Sessions included in the sale:

• Santa Baby for Electric Guitar
• Feliz Navidad for Acoustic Guitar
• Frosty the Snow Man for Acoustic Guitar
• Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer for Acoustic Guitar
• Happy Xmas (War Is Over) for Acoustic Guitar

In addition to these popular Christmas songs, we also have a broad selection of Guitar Guru Sessions that are Traditional Christian Christmas hymns, too. Choose from Guitar Guru Sessions like:

• Angels We Have Heard on High for Classical Guitar
• The First Noel for Classical Guitar
• Joy To The World for Acoustic Guitar
• Silent Night for Classical Guitar
• What Child Is This? for Acoustic Guitar

If you want to learn how to play guitar or a new Christmas song, be sure to browse our Christmas Guitar Guru Sessions to see what songs we have available.

That’s all the Christmas sheet music news we have for right now, but be sure to stay tuned for next week!

Even though he only wrote less than a hundred pieces for the guitar, the short compositions are enjoyed by many guitarists. Within the music world, many consider Tarrega to be an important founding figure for the classical guitar genre. Other works by Tarrega include how most famous work, RECUERDOS DE LA ALHAMBRA, and LAGRIMA, a popular guitar tab for beginners.

Your free download of ESTUDIO BRILLANTE includes an interactive Guitar Guru Session plus free printable guitar tab, and is available through October 31st.

Download your free guitar tab and Guitar Guru Session for ESTUDIO BRILLANT today. For more recommendations on classical pieces for guitar, we recommend browsing our selection of classical guitar tab.

Guitar Guru Headset Give-A-Way (for PC)

From now until the end of October, comment on this blog post for your chance to win a Guitar Guru headset. To enter, all you have to do is comment below telling us about the song that you had the most fun learning how to play.

What can you do with your Guitar Guru headset? From learning how to play songs from The Beatles Rock Band to our new features in Guitar Guru 3.0, a headset enhances your overall guitar song learning experience. Guitar Guru features voice command functionality for the PC, so using a headset allows you to keep your hands on your guitar while you’re learning how to play your song. We tested a bunch of different headsets for Guitar Guru yet one stood out among all the brands we tested. This Plantronics headset offers noise-canceling, excellent sound quality, and has a retail value of $24.95.

Be sure to comment on this post for your chance to win! Contest ends midnight on October 31st. Limited to one entry per customer. One lucky winner will be contacted via email by November 2nd, 2009, so be sure to provide a valid email address in the comment field. We respect your privacy, and will not use your email address for any other purpose than this contest.

For example, we have sheet music for Meet Me On The Equinox from Death Cab for Cutie. This song is the first song announced for the movie NEW MOON, the sequel to TWILIGHT. The song Magic by Selena Gomez, on the other hand, is a song from the 70s that many of you have asked for.

Here is a list of some other great songs that we’ve been adding to fulfill your song requests:

• Send It On by Disney Channel Friends for Change
• Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus
• Bad Things from TRUE BLOOD
• Everybody by Ingrid Michaelson
• Sort Of by Ingrid Michaelson
• Need You Now by Lady Antebellum
• Fire by Augustana

For those of you that prefer Christian sheet music, we’d also like to point out a few songs that we’ve added for your requests, too.

• Revelation Song by Phillips, Craig and Dean
• Follow You by Leeland with Brandon Heath
• He Is by Mark Schultz
• More Beautiful You by Jonny Diaz
• Wait and See by Brandon Heath
• Lay ‘Em Down by Need to Breathe
• Hold My Heart by Tenth Avenue North

If you’re interested, please feel free to add your sheet music requests through our song suggestion tool.

Up to 25% Off Vocal Method Books

Are you a vocalist who wants to improve your skills? How about a singer who wants to improve your sight-reading? Whenever we talk about things like How To Find Your Vocal Range or offer some Sheet Music Sight-Reading Tips, you often tell us how much you appreciate the information. To help you become a better singer, we’re putting a great selection of vocal method books on sale.

From now through midnight, September 30th, enjoy up to twenty-five percent off select vocal method books. The price is automatically deducted from the books you want to buy; there’s no minimum purchase nor do you have to enter a coupon.

Included in our sale are vocal method books like The New Voice (How to Sing and Speak Properly) or the The Contemporary Singer (Elements of Vocal Technique) which we’ve pictured on the left. The New Voice method book has more of an emphasis on singing mechanics and is originally $15.95, but it’s on sale for $12.76, while The Contemporary Singer is perfect for vocalists wanting to appear on stage. We also recommend the book Sight-Sing Any Melody Instantly, for those of you who want to improve your skills in that area.

To take advantage of this sale, we invite you to visit our vocal method books page to browse our recommended titles.

Take 10% Off Guitar Guru Sessions

We recently had some fun promotions for Guitar Guru, like our huge $10,000 give-a-way, but we’re not done yet! From now until midnight, September 30th take ten percent off of your favorite Guitar Guru Sessions. Just enter code GG3TEN at checkout to take advantage of the savings. Limit one per customer.

You might want to check out some of the hot new Sessions we’ve added. This Guitar Guru Session of Yesterday by The Beatles has already hit our top five! With the release of the remastered CDs and BEATLES: ROCK BAND, Beatlemania seems to have literally struck a chord with guitarists. Check out these Guitar Guru Sessions for The Beatles to see some of the new Sessions we’ve added.

If you’re not sure what you want to play, here’s a few more suggestions from a broad range of musical styles for you:

• She Talks To Angels by The Black Crowes
• Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley
• Fridays I’m In Love by The Cure
• Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley
• Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffet
• Breaking the Law by Judas Priest
• (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones

Well that’s all the time we have for this week’s edition of The Whole Note. Until next time, make sure you tighten those strings and flex your fingers!

To celebrate this release, Musicnotes.com is giving away $10,000 in Guitar Guru Sessions starting Thursday, September 3rd 2009 at 3:00 p.m. CDT.

Guitar Guru provides an enhanced interface to help guitarists and bass guitarists learn to play their favorite songs through downloadable Guitar Guru Sessions. Currently, the ever-growing catalog features over 1,500 songs including artists such as Metallica, Jason Mraz, Green Day, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Muse, Ozzy Osbourne and more!

Some of the new features in Guitar Guru 3 include:

• Better, More Contemporary Look and Feel. New user interface includes a scalable fretboard and enhanced music notation.
• Tempo Change with Correct Pitch. Musicians can slow down or speed up audio playback while maintaining the correct pitch..
• Precision Audio-Syncing. The queue position of CDs and audio files, including MP3s, can now be matched to the Session to within 1/10 of a second. (PC only)

The $10,000 in Guitar Guru Sessions will be given out to the first 1,000 customers in $10 increments.

For more details on how you can be a part of this Guitar Guru Give-a-way, visit www.musicnotes.com/guitarguru at 3:00 p.m. CDT on Thursday, September 3rd.

About Musicnotes: Musicnotes, Inc. offers an online catalog of almost 100,000 digital sheet music titles, built on the strength of content agreements with Alfred Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, Faber Music Ltd, Sony/ATV Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Disney Music Publishing, Cherry Lane Music Company, Peermusic, Word Music, EMI Christian, Bug Music and many others. Musicnotes is included in Internet Retailer Magazine’s list of the Top 500 Online Retailers and was recently selected by Internet Retailer as a “Hot 100″ site for 2009.

In 2008, Musicnotes.com purchased and re-launched MXTabs.net, turning it into the web’s first “free and legal” guitar, bass and drums tab community.

On the Web: http://www.musicnotes.com and http://www.mxtabs.net.

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!.

Sheet Music Portfolios on Sale at 20% Off!

To protect your digital sheet music, we offer these sheet music portfolios designed to help you organize and play your favorite songs. What makes our portfolio so special? Not only can you personalize these portfolios, we’ve tested them to ensure that they’ll lay flat on your piano or music stand so you’ll be able to keep your fingers on your keyboard.

Comes with 12 clear inserts, but you can also order our portfolio refills or put in your own inserts to expand your storage capacity. Our Musicnotes.com sheet music portfolios may hold between 25 to 35 inserts; each insert can hold two sheets for approximately 50 to 70 sheets of music.

Our Musicnotes.com digital sheet music portfolio is normally $7.95, but is now on sale for $6.36 through the end of June! Order your digital sheet music portfolio today!

Grab a Guitar Guru Headset at 20% Off

Last month, we offered a special sale on every Guitar Guru Session we had in our inventory. For our June deals, we’re offering reduced shipping and 20% off our Guitar Guru headsets for the PC. Our Guitar Guru headset will allow you to work with our voice command feature available for the PC and keep your hands on your guitar!

We tested a bunch of different headsets for Guitar Guru yet the one that stood out offers noise-canceling, excellent sound quality. Your Plantronics Guitar Guru headset typically ships in one business day.

Normally, our headset retails for $24.95 plus shipping. Take 20% off our Guitar Guru headset for a price of $19.96 and get $2.95 shipping to U.S. addresses! Order your Guitar Guru Headset today!

Submit your June Entry for our YouPerform Contest!

Remember, voting for our May YouPerform Contest will end in just a few days and one lucky winner will get chosen. Hope you’re practicing one of our free sheet music downloads or any of our other Musicnotes Editions for our contest.

Prize is $100 gift certificate to Musicnotes.com, so be sure to join this month’s contest group on YouTube! and read our Musicnotes.com YouPerform contest rules!

June Coupon for 15% Off your Next Digital Order!

Last but not least, celebrate the beginning of summer with this great discount! Take 15% off your next digital order — including our Guitar Guru Sessions — through midnight on June 30th. Just insert coupon code MNSUN when you check out to take advantage of this limited time offer! Limit one coupon per customer.

Take advantage of these great deals while you can, because they’re not going to be around forever. Keep your eyes on the summer sky and don’t forget to practice, practice, practice!

We’ve got some great Sessions we’ve added over the past, few weeks to help you on your quest to learn guitar. Whether you’re into country songs like When You Say Nothing at All by Alison Krauss or modern rock Sessions like She Talks To Angels by The Black Crowes, we have hundreds of your favorite songs to choose from including your rock-and-your favorites. Choose Sessions by The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, The Beatles and many more!

Here’s some hot new Guitar Guru Sessions you can now try:

• Know Your Enemy by Green Day
• 1, 2, 3, 4 by the Plain White T’s
• I’m Yours by Jason Mraz
• and the hot new song Use Somebody by Kings of Leon.

Thanks to everyone who got their Guru on this past month. We hope you’re enjoying our Guitar Guru Sessions and you’ll get a lot of use out of the guitar tab that’s included with each Session.

Click Here to Browse our Guitar Guru Session Store Page.

The average price of a Session for Guitar Guru is $6.95, and each song comes with a corresponding guitar tab that is yours to keep. Every Session from our inventory is automatically discounted before you check out, so you’ll see the price (e.g. $5.95 on Sale!) when you select the Session you want to purchase.

Stay tuned for more hot, new Sessions for the songs you want to learn on guitar! If you haven’t tried out Guitar Guru yet, check out this YouTube! video describing how it works on a PC!

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!