Guitar Freak Workstation

with SightReader Master Extreme

SightReader Master Extreme - free for all previous purchasers of SightReader Master!

Guitar Freak Workstation - free for all previous purchasers of Guitar Freak Workshop!

  click on the screens for more info

Installation:

XP: You need service Pack 2 and Microsoft Framework 3.5.(click here to download - it's free!) Microsoft Media Player also required

 chord library downloads

Courses for building great new skills using Guitar Freak Workstation

Finally, it's Here! The New Version of Guitar Freak Workstation - with SightReader Master Extreme combined!
Featuring:

• SightReader Master has been built from the ground up - now featuring 4 bars to help you read across and down the page! Not only are there goups of 3 and 4 - but quintiplets (groups of 5). Every combination up to 16th notes! You can now choose any scale in the Guitar Freak Workstation to use as your base scale.
  

• Upgrade to Guitar Freak Workshop and get access to tools you know guitarists should have but nobody thought of you until now!

1. Progression Trainer - using the progression creator, you can design your own progressions. In the progression trainer, you can use these progressions created, in any key, to practice licks and phrases you have learnt or practice your scales.
2. The Invertor (bass and Guitar) - this is a brand new tool never before offered to guitarists and bassists. You have a fretboard. You can choose any key, any scale and by clicking on the fretboard, you can create a lick or chord. Then by clicking either up and down, the shape will move diatonically up or down to the next invertion of the shape. Great for Chord melodies, scales, string skips, arpeggios and more!
3. Quick Chords for Guitar. This handy tool will provide 15 different voicings for any chord or scale in any key.You can see what chords go with which scale and also what scales fit any chord. You can see - and hear them play. This will provide you with the ability to either play a chord or scale (your choice) when reading a chart!
4. Eartraining - chords and scale recognition - it's all here. Great if you're prepping for exams for your jazz degree. There are also more real world training as well. Recognizing the interval of a note over a bass note, tracking bass movement, tracking melody movement and singing intervals over a bass note. There is also a complete list of reference melodies of familiar songs so that you can get familiar with learning intervals (lots of books will give you obscure melodies - here you can hear them and they'll likely be melodies you'll recognize!)
5. Perfect Pitch training - we have 4 different methods; Drone - the note being spoken and then played. Put on in the background while you're cleaning your room. Melody - create a list of songs and a note about each (we usually mentally recall a song in the same key we hear it in). Pick the note (my personal favourite) - play a note on the keyboard. Then start the test. press space bar when you hear it amongst the other notes being flung at you and finally, a method based of a certain Perfect Pitch course you might have seen in magazines!
6. An advanced metronome with enhancements for learning your chords, scales and building your technique. Complete with transparency function so it won't get in the way of what you're practicing.
7. Manage your chord Libraries - as seen in SightReader Master - but with better graphics.
8. The Workpage. You can take 'photos' of all the graphics in GFW and use them to create a refence page or teaching material. You can import images from the clipboard as well as the graphics, drag them around the screen, add text and save as a complete graphic. You can also print them.
9. The Resource page - access your saved workpages, print or access the metronome for practicing. There are also included resources such as manuscript pages and tab pages.
10. Add Chords and scales easily - found a chord or scale not listed - well... add it!

Guitar Freak Workstation can be registered just for the SightReader Master Extreme side. You can upgrade from SightReader Master Extreme to Guitar Freak Workstation at any time for only $35 USD!

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I didn't write this software - but it is a great compliment to Guitar Freak Workstation or SightReader.

• It slows down software to any speed and keeps the pitch

• You can record yourself soloing - very important if you want to hear yourself objectively
• It slows down the speed of any song and keeps the pitch
• You can transpose the key of any song - very helpful if you're learning a song by somebody who tunes down a step (Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie, Jimi, etc...) and you play in concert pitch!
• It tells you what notes are playing on a keyboard.
• Great for all musicians - not just guitarists!

This takes the normal SightReader principles of total adjustment to the user's ability - right through to extreme ability and beyond!

• whole notes, 1/2 notes, 1/4 notes, 1/8th notes, 1/16th notes, triplet versions of each, dotted version up to 1/8th notes, ties, rests, sharps and flats - all controllable by your choices!
• Single notes or chords (as well as chords from mixolydian, harmonic minor and more!)
• There's a clock for disciplining yourself to a set amount of practice.
• The tempo goes from 10 bpm to 230 bpm.
• Hit "0" on your number pad and the current bar will loop (to get that new rhythm pattern you're not used to)
• You'll never outgrow it. You'll just outgrow everybody else in your sightreading ability! Leave the brass and classical players in your wake!
• Imagine having sheet music to learn from - at your level, at the tempo you want, on the notes you want.
• 3/4 or 4/4 time!
• All upgrades will be free for customers - and as always, I will try and provide the best personal customer service I can!
• NEW! Version 3.0.2 - printable chord libraries! Great for teachers and serious guitarist,
• 4,5 and 6 string Bass, transposable instruments - saxophone, soprano, alto and tenor, trumpet A and Bb, Cello, violin, flute!
• Chords for chord melodies and slash noteheads for rhythm training!
• Now Available! - chord notation - if you can read chords, reading single notes will be a breeze! See how this is developing!
• Now! An 8th note swing feel - great for jazz players!
• heaps more functions!

  "I have a successful career in music, I have played at the Winter Olympics in 2002, the World Expo in Germany and a PBS broadcast. I spent four years at various colleges and conservatories struggling to learn how to sight read. When I saw your program, I literally started to laugh because it was straight out of my wish list of things that should be mandatory for all guitar students everywhere. I am reading better after three hours on the system than I ever did in my entire career as a student! (and with the unregistered version no less!)" - Mathew Andrae

  "...after SightReader's heavy-duty random selection of notes, Bach's music was like a walk in the park! My fingers were going to the notes with hardly any conscious effort on my part!"

  This is the only software like it.

  Believe.

If you play guitar and don't get this - you risk spending 3 times the money on other books that don't contain half the useful information! Why should you want to buy it - learn from somebody who can play at 26.7 notes a second!

Here's what you get

• How to play fast and clean - what will make you sound good compared to people who try and play fast but sound bad! You get the secrets that they don't know!
• ALL the chords you'll ever need in 12 different voicings on the neck - the shapes those real jazz guitarists use all on only 3 pages! (This in itself is a gold mine!) and a visual representation of scales as they stretch across the neck of the guitar - all you need is a little bit of motivation!
• Access to the downloadable instructional CD
• Full support and added information from Pro Level Guitar.
• Added extras, sizable text and other nicities!
• And lots more!
• It's only $12 (US)!!!! for the ebook (The actual book will cost - but it's nice!)
  There are 2 different versions - the actual book and the software version.

Click here to download "Learn To Burn - The Guitar Speed Manual"
Click on any chord, scale or progression and it plays through your computer!

"I have purchased over $1,000 worth of “guitar secrets” in my 36 years as a player in the pursuit of excellence. Most books tend to provide too much theory when the player really wants to take a hands-on approach. Excessive theory is stressful and tends to be discouraging because it’s hard to see the benefit.I played through your material to my satisfaction in about an hour. The exercises are some of the best I have seen anywhere. The best thing about them, is that they have a rock guitar solo quality about them. Any rock guitarist could build some of these exercises into their solo and impress the crowds. There is sage advice in all your articles. I plan to instruct my son in the ways of your method, as he is a young, budding guitarist. I will continue to utilize your practice material to hone my solo skills. Keep up the good work!"

- J.W. "Bill" Head

"...your book is amazing. I have been playing for years, and I have even studied with Dave Creamer who taught Satch, Vai, Holdsworth, and Becker. Your book has given me a discipline that I could never have achieved previously. You deserve the Nobel Prize..." - Fred Hill

  Sure - you may have purchased books that promise to supercharge your ear - I know I used to!

The problem was, I didn't know the songs to even get me started with the intervals!

With the e-book technology, the e-book will play every tune you'll need and many of the examples.

After working your way through this book, you'll be able to:

• Learn songs staight off the radio - without your instrument!
• Memorise chord progressions to your favourite songs (and any telephone numbers) using a proven memory system
• Listen to music in greater depth - and steal what you like!
• Improvise more meaningfully
• Compose inside your head - write it down!

This is just the tip of the iceberg - and it's your for only $12 (US) (you'll pay way more for an actual book that doesn't play the tunes!).

 Never, never, ever be looked down on again by guys who went to a jazzy guitar school for geek's as you blow them away with your ability to play ANY chord in 12 different positions!

Walking Bass for your chord work?  You'll be adding it in to your new wicked chord playing in no time at all.

Create your own fusion tunes without any headaches! Using your scales that you got from "Learn to Burn : The Guitar Speed Manual", know what scale to put over which chords!

Fully interactive.  ALL THE CHORDS PLAY when you click on them - so you can hear what they sound like before you play them.  Beside each chord is a description of it so you find the chord you want.

• Substitutions - that jazz players use
• All the chords for all 3 chord families
• The chords that go with which scales and vice versa (the harmonized chord series)
• Every single chord (over 1000 chords!) - click and hear it play!!!!
• How chords are built.
• How to create your own fusion tunes.
• Pluralities
• Walking Bass Lines.

  Best of all, it's only $39.95 (US) - much cheaper than books half it's caliber. There is a supplement to the e-book which tells you how to locate 12 different jazz chords while only knowing the A and E shape barre chords! It unlocks with the same registration key for your "How to be Awesome at Jazz Guitar Chords (finally!)"

  how to locate 12 different jazz chords while only knowing the A and E shape barre chords!

Develop Perfect Pitch on your Guitar! Am I for real? You bet - much less complicated than you'd ever imagine!

It's a small program - but it packs a punch! As always, it's shareware - fully registerable from the help file.

• Go straight to the tones without looking for them.
• Hear what people are playing - steal, assimilate and innovate
• Jam with anyone - know where to start playing
• Hear the notes before you put your fingers down - giving you the opportunity to choose the best notes from the scale and avoid the notes that may be intune - but don't add anything to the melody you want to hear!
• Left your guitar somewhere? Imagine in your head your fretboard and trigger the tones by mentally playing it. Compose in your kitchen, practice in bed - then freak out on stage!

I'm not sure exactly, why it works - but it does. It doesn't take very long before you find yourself beginning to nail every pitch! You simply press the play button up the top to hear a tone (or you can just press your space bar). The tones that are chosen can be customized by yourself. You can select from combo boxes and various other controls the following options:

• Which string (if any) you would like the note to come from
• Which area of the neck you would like on the selected string for the tone to come from.
• Whether you would like it to be just without sharps or flats (nothing like C# or G# - Just C or G).
• Would you like to see the note that it's testing you on (this will help you learn the notes on your fretboart if you don't know them yet)
• You can choose from your computers midi devises, adjust the volume and turn the win/lose sound effects.

Great timing is what separates the good guitarists from the hacks. If you’re wondering why your playing in your band or recordings doesn't’t par up to your heroes, your timing is probably the cause.
Mastering it lies inside this e-book

Dynamic soloing relies more upon the rhythms in the solo rather than on the notes used.

9-10 times guitar playing in a studio will need to be redone because of bad timing. Get awesome timing here so that YOU do the playing rather than some hired session guy.

Your big chance - you are invited onstage to jam with a local band. Your mates are watching - the band starts to play. Will you embarrass yourself in front of your mates because you can’t sit in the pocket with the drums or will you blow them away by instantly sounding like you’ve been playing with this band for years?

A lot of Guitarists can play their favourite licks in a shop - but get them to play it onto a record or in a jam - forget it - Don't be that guy!

Fully Interactive e-book. Click on what you see to hear it!

The fore-runner to SightReader Master for Guitar

There are 2 basic versions of SightReader. The same code unlocks both guitar and bass versions.

This version is limited to 1/4 notes. It was a predecessor to SightReader Master and then ultimately to SightReader Master Extreme (which is in-built in Guitar Freak Workstation).

I remember when I started it was when I went searching on the internet for a sight-reading tool for guitar players. There was nothing (there still isn't). I had done a lot of programming when I was 10 years on with a ZX81 (1K or ram).

I sat down, learnt VB6 and began.

However, when I went to a degree in Jazz, I realized that the notes were not the problem, playing the notes with rhythms was the difficult part. So that's when I designed SightReader Master.

2 years later Guitar Freak Workstation with SightReader was released!

But this software is still available if you're interested!

Buy either SR for Bass or SR for Guitar and get the other free! The unlock code is only $29.95 (US)!

It's shareware with no time limit!

Click here to download "Sight Reader Basic for Guitar" or "SightReader Basic for Bass" (shareware)