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Good if you're a teenager, otherwise avoid
If you're a teenage guitarist and want to learn Nickelback, Green Day, and nu-metal songs, then this magazine is for you. There's also some pretty good tips for beginners from time to time. But in the last several years the quality of the feature articles and interviews has gone steadily downhill, and there are far too many ads. As many people have said, sometimes it doesn't seem to be geared towards musicians at all anymore. The smarmy, "hipper than thou" Rolling Stone, Spin, Pitchfork Media style of writing seems to be taking over the mag. And other styles of music such as blues, country, jazz, etc, are pretty much ignored. But like I said, if you're a teenager and you see it on the newsstand and there's a song in it you would like to learn, pick it up, otherwise avoid this magazine.

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Great for the articles and...
I've been reading Guitar World for quite a long time now. I found the recent addition of the CD-ROM to be a pretty nice feature and it's really helpful to see the artists play the songs themselves so you can better learn how to play the songs and do the lessons in each issue. Guitar World offers a lot of different styles in various issues. One issue might be a metal issue while another might be blues and then there's still some funk and classic rock. I find that the articles with the various guitar players to be usually interesting as well as the colum devoted to producers. The endpage is always the gear setup of a well known player which I think gives a little insight if one finds a sound on a record they really like. Definitely not a bad buy for those things. <
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>The downside to this magazine is the CD-ROM makes the subscription more expensive. Also, the included song transcriptions may put some people off since it's tablature with note stems and no key signature. Something they changed years ago. I still remember the posts on their site complaining to senior editor Andy Aledort about that. Guitar World reasons that they do this to make more room for lessons and interviews. I've only seen an exception to this rule in the handful of times Yngwie Malmsteen does his Wild Stringdom colum. For someone who is more experienced and used to standard musical notation, this can be very frustrating! The key signature is an important part of the roadmap that's sheet music. <
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>So in conclusion, for the interviews, lessons and gear colums, Guitar World is great. But the lack of standard notation takes away from it. If I had to choose one subscription, I would go with Guitar One since they seem to be the best of both worlds between Guitar World and Guitar Player. At least Guitar One has the good sense to use standard notation.

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Not as advertised
I wish that when I purchased this subscription I would have read all of the reviews. Unlike the description included on the Amazon website, the subsription does NOT include the CD-ROM, which costs an additional $1/issue. And, if you want to purchase the CD-ROMs for past issues, they cost $4/disk. Sometimes a bargain isn't really a bargain. Buyer beware.