What is Ultimate Guitar?

Ultimate Guitar is a website created by Eugeney Naidenov. The website is used by millions of people worldwide to help learn the chords of any song they want. The website offers chords for numerous instruments including guitar, bass and piano and the popular ukulele. The website has a subscribed version and an unsubscribed version. The basic free version would have limited features. You can search for any song and you will be given a few versions of the chords. Users can rate their favourite and most accurate version.  As you can see below, The information privied is very helpful for any new guitar player. It gives you the Key of the song and also the position of the capo. To the left side you can see alternative versions of the guitar chords.



The website is very easy to use and has a whopping 1,600,000 tabs, 900,000 songs available and the mobile app has been downloaded over 53,000,000 times. Like many websites the free version comes with its annoyances. The ads that feature on the app are quite annoying. If you pay their yearly subscription and become a member the apps disappear and you are given access to loads more useful features which I will discuss in a later blog.

I personally started using this website when I was about 13/14 years old. For me I found it fantastic. To be able to get the chords of any song that you just heard on the radio/TV and be able to learn them quickly was a blessing.

 

To access the website you can follow this link below.

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

To download the app, go to your play store or apple store and simply search for ultimate guitar. You can download the app for free and always pay for the subscription whenever you want.


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