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What are the best tools for learning to play the guitar?

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6 Options Considered

Best tools for learning to play the guitar	Price	Compatibility	Pricing
-- MyMusicTeacher	-	Windows, OSX, iOS and Android	19.90$ a month or 5€ for an unlimited pack of exercises.
-- Rocksmith® 2014 Edition - Remastered	-	-	-
-- Yousician	Freemium	-	-
-- FATpick	FREE	Windows, OSX, Linux	-
-- Guitar Chords Pro	Free	-	-

MyMusicTeacher

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The system that detects your play and gives you instant feedback

The software actually hears what you play and tell you straight away if you play right or wrong. Fun and interactive! See More

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Compatibility:Windows, OSX, iOS and Android

Pricing:19.90$ a month or 5€ for an unlimited pack of exercises.

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A forum, blog, and community chatbox

You can interact with the other users and ask your questions to the teachers and community. There is always someone available to help. See More

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Backing tracks and original guitar tabs

All the exercises come along with an original guitar tab and a backing track so you can play along. See More

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Lessons are organised in a progressive learning path

You can truly start from A to Z and learn everything. How to read a music sheet, hold your guitar or even tune it. See More

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More than 2500 videos and exercises

Plenty of content that is updated every week accordingly to the community suggestions. See More

Rocksmith® 2014 Edition - Remastered

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Receive live feedback

Unlike learning songs from YouTube or tabs. Rocksmith will give you feedback there and then when you play the song and will adjust the difficulty accordingly. See More

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Official DLC can be pricey

If you are a fan of a vast variety of music you can end up with huge cart that can easily get into hundreds of pounds. The price per song is definitely more that your usual iTunes or Google Play price. Not that many good bundles either. See More

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Steam Rating:Very Positive

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CLDC for a vast vast selection of songs

While lacking your favorite song can be a con, if you dig around you will probably find a Custom DLC for so many songs and it's easy to add them to the game without too much hassle. See More

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Guitarcade

Kill zombies by playing chords, practice scales in a beat'em up this and more can be done in Rocksmith's Guirarcade. Once tedious tasks became something exciting (especially scales) once you pick up this piece of software. See More

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Turns learning into a game, making it fun

With Rocksmith 2014 you can learn how to play a real guitar through a Guitar Hero-type game. See More

Yousician

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Multi platform support

Works with PC, Mac, Linux* as well as Android and iOS. *64 bit versions of Linux only. See More

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Value priced premium tier will charge you for the whole year in one lump sum transaction.

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Left handed mode:Yes

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Step-by-step tutorials

Yousician guides you with easy step-by-step tutorials and gives you exercises that fit your level. See More

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Free version is quite limited

As with many freemium software you are quite limited of what you can do until you pay. Still you get limited time a day with all features unlocked. After that feedback feature and unlocking of new content is not available for 12 hours when the timer resets. Ads restricted to promotion of Premium tier, so no weird "download this crappy app/game" stuff. See More

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Instant feedback

Get instant feedback on your accuracy and rhythm as you play along with interactive tutorials. See More

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User created content

Many popular songs have been recreated by users for you to try and learn. Access to those is restricted to the premium tier though. See More

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Not only for guitars

Supports pianists, guitarists, bass & ukulele players. See More

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Supports teachers and classes

Has functionality for teacher - student relationships. See More

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Track your progress

You can see how you improve from the very first session and store your musical achievements. See More

FATpick

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Custom songs (GuitarPro import)

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No mobile app

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Simple and effective. See More

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Compatibility:Windows, OSX, Linux

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Interactive scale/chord/tuning reference tools

Guitar Chords Pro

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Hear the Chord

You can hit the play button to hear the chord. Tap on the chord diagram to hear individual notes as well melodic and harmonic intervals. Train your ear! See More

Guitar Chords Visualizer

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James Nelson's Experience

Simple app that loads quickly on mobile and desktop. Has many chord modifications available. The site seems to be updated quite regularly as well. See More

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