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Guitar World Lick of the Day Launches to Rave Reviews

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

Guitar World Lick of the Day

It’s been just over a month since the release of Guitar World Lick of the Day, the groundbreaking guitar instruction app that we launched with our friends at Guitar World, the world’s best-selling guitar magazine. Lick of the Day provides guitar players of all levels with a fun and engaging way to improve their guitar skills anytime and anywhere on iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.  The app offers a one-of-a-kind feature set that includes:
  • high quality videos of Guitar World’s award-winning instructors and amazing guitar celebrities such as Joe Satriani, Zakk Wylde, and Gus G demonstrating licks in a wide range of styles: Rock, Metal, Blues, Country, Jazz, and more.
  • practice mode with settings that control music notation tempo, looping, audio synthesis, a metronome, and more.
  • a visual fretboard that shows finger positions synchronized with the scrolling music notation.
  • tab and standard music notation for each lick that scroll in sync with videos on iPad.
Soon after the launch of Guitar World Lick of the Day, the app was featured as both the iPhone and iPad App of the Week on the iTunes App Store. The feature helped propel Lick of the Day to be among the top apps in the App Store Music category. In the US and other countries around the world, Lick of the Day remained the iPhone and iPad App of the Week from November 18 through December 2.

Lick of the Day App of the Week Feature

With amazing content produced daily by Guitar World and the kind of polished user experience that our customers have come to expect from Agile Partners’ apps, it’s not surprising that Guitar World Lick of the Day has received rave reviews around the world:
  • The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): “If you’re a guitar player and you’re looking to improve your skills and techniques, we’d definitely recommend you go and check out Lick of the Day, now!”
  • Boles Blues: “Guitar World’s Lick of the Day is a high quality and inspirational iOS app that any guitar player can use and enjoy every single day.”
  • CrunchGear: “After trying it out, I give this app a thumbs up because it does what it says.  It’s a multi-method approach to teaching simple, short guitar lessons in clear and helpful ways.”
  • Gear Diary: “Lick of the Day is a beautiful app with an intuitive user interface.  Every part of the app works perfectly … I highly recommend Lick of the Day for any guitarist.”
  • Macworld: “Guitar World Lick of the Day is a useful, well designed iOS app that offers just what its name implies: a fresh guitar lick every day for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users who subscribe to the service through this free app … I’ve really been enjoying this app and if you’re a guitar player, chances are you’ll like it too.”
  • Publishing Executive: “Guitar World magazine has created a lot of positive buzz – or perhaps we should say feedback – with the launch of its Guitar World Lick of the Day app … Other publishers might want to sit up, plug in and take note of new and creative ways they can make their content and information assets rock on the iPad.”

Lick of the Day on iPad

We’re especially grateful for the feedback our customers have been providing about Guitar World Lick of the Day. On Twitter, @jasarien exclaimed, “Guitar World Lick of the Day on iPad is an amazing piece of work. The UI is just perfect”; @nicksergeant tweeted, “The Lick of the Day app – my new favorite”; and @Bondwalker said, “I’m loving the guitar world lick of the day app…” Meanwhile, some of our favorite App Store Customer Reviews include:
  • Eric Anderson: “Best app I’ve found for iPad … The only way to make this better would be to have 2 licks of the day.”
  • Pat Bowden: “Wow, amazing. Not only does it explain the daily lick in great detail, but it also features a video AND tabs/standard sheet music.”
  • DanielPNY: “Great guitar lesson learning tool. The ability to slow down the lesson is great!”
  • sam_astoria: “I’m learning how to play guitar and this app is awesome. Subscription price is really reasonable. Can’t wait for more tutorials from rock stars like Zakk!
  • hkremer: “Extremely impressed. This app really takes advantage of the iPad in every way. I am certain that if I would have had this when I was younger I would be rich and famous, probably living in some Scottish castle with a big studio and groupies.”

Like our friends at Guitar World, Agile Partners appreciates the support that amazing artists like Joe Satriani, Zakk Wylde and Gus G have given to Lick of the Day.  Their Facebook posts and tweets have been a huge help in getting the word out about Guitar World Lick of the Day (check it out in the video below).

Finally, we’re proud to partner with Guitar World in providing guitar players around the globe with a fun and engaging way to continuously improve their guitar playing skills and broaden their repertoire. Lick of the Day is a wonderful addition to our family of guitar apps that already included Guitar Toolkit, TabToolkit, and AmpKit. We hope all of our customers will keep sending us feedback so we can continuously improve our apps. Rock on!

Improve Your Guitar Skills – One Lick At A Time

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Guitar World Lick of the DayAll of us at Agile Partners are excited to be partnering with Guitar World, the world’s best-selling guitar magazine, to release Guitar World Lick of the Day – a new app for guitar players who are serious about having fun while improving their guitar skills!

Lick of the Day is the perfect app if you’re a guitar player who has the basics down and is looking for a fun and engaging way to broaden your repertoire. After subscribing to Lick of the Day, a new Lick is delivered to your iPad, iPhone, and/or iPod touch daily. Each Lick is hosted by a Guitar World instructor or guitar celebrity and consists of a video of the host playing and describing the Lick, scrollable tablature and standard notation, and written performance notes.

Lick of the Day on iPad Once the Lick has been downloaded to your device, you’ll have a day’s worth of instruction in your pocket (a large pocket if your device is an iPad). Watch the video whenever you can grab a few minutes. Or, sit down for an in-depth session to practice the Lick your way: adjust the tempo of the notation playback, turn a metronome on and off, listen to audio synthesis of the Lick, loop the playback for practicing, view a dynamic fretboard that shows finger positions, and more. On the iPad, the music notation even scrolls in sync with the video for the ultimate learning experience. Personally, I’m most excited about the one-touch button that sets the music notation tempo to 50% of full speed — at my skill level, I know I’ll be needing that feature a lot!

The Licks are demonstrated by a variety of amazing instructors, including the pros at Guitar World and celebrities such as Zakk Wylde, Joe Satriani, Gus G., and Phil Collen. Each daily Lick provides a fun new challenge across a variety of genres including Rock, Metal, Blues, Country, and Jazz.

When developing Lick of the Day, it was important to us that you be able to bring your Licks with you wherever you go. The app is available for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch and Licks purchased on any device allows you to download Licks to all your devices that are hooked up to the same iTunes account.

I hope you’ll download Guitar World Lick of the Day for free and check it out. You can easily purchase one, three, or six months of Licks to continue receiving Licks each and every day! Here it is in action below:

We are really excited about this engaging new way to learn music. Be sure to check out the killer axes the guitar celebs bring to the party. We know you’ll have a great time, too!