Ultimate Guitar price increase

I’ve just been informed by email that the Ultimate Guitar annual subscription is increasing from £19.99 to £29.99 as from February.
Heck of an increase!

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I’ve only ever used the free version :thinking:
You’re not playing up the ‘Scottish stereotype’, my friend :wink:

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There’s been plenty of posts about small hands in the community. I think this is the first one about having short arms and deep pockets :rofl:

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I get everything I need from Ultimate Guitar on the free version. I’ve always wondered what’s on the paid version that makes it worthwhile. £39 is about $50-55 I believe (conversion rate varies from day to day.) I can’t imagine what they could give me over and above the free version that I need enough to pay that.

Pro gives you access to “official tabs”, plus downloadable Guitar Pro files, sundry tools, some courses, song videos, and interactive tabs. Well worth it, particularly if you can get it on a special.
However, like @sairfingers notes, my AUS $25 special that I’ve been paying for 3 years is about to go up to AUS $49.99 in July.
A 200% jump is certainly a serious change.

All I use it for is to get chord charts, which I can copy and paste into Word to print out.

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I preview the ones I want then I have songbook pro fetch them. Thenn I do all my extras to the file and add my music from my family spotify account.

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I am life time member of ultimate guitar , I paid one time a long time ago and that’s it.

Haha that’s going to make @sairfingers feel a lot better :rofl:

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You don’t need to have a paid subscription to be able to download the GP files, you can get them by having just a ‘registered’ free account.

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There are also lots of other sources for tabs and GP files free and not free all over the internet. I haven’t found UG worth it really.