Iāve just been informed by email that the Ultimate Guitar annual subscription is increasing from Ā£19.99 to Ā£29.99 as from February.
Heck of an increase!
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Iāve only ever used the free version 
Youāre not playing up the āScottish stereotypeā, my friend 
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Thereās been plenty of posts about small hands in the community. I think this is the first one about having short arms and deep pockets 
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I get everything I need from Ultimate Guitar on the free version. Iāve always wondered whatās on the paid version that makes it worthwhile. Ā£39 is about $50-55 I believe (conversion rate varies from day to day.) I canāt imagine what they could give me over and above the free version that I need enough to pay that.
Pro gives you access to āofficial tabsā, 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 Iāve 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 thatās it.
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You donāt need to have a paid subscription to be able to download the GP files, you can get them by having just a āregisteredā 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 havenāt found UG worth it really.
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Musicnotes.com is a great site. You have to pay for tabs but at least they are not wrong. UG has a few mistakes in the tabs.
I payed 10 Euros a year with VPN.
Does anybody uses songbooks on UG?
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Thats a cool hooked up deal, that keeps on giving.
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If you have an iPad or iPhone have a look at Justchords. It has amazing features, is well supported and entirely free.
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I saw the price increase and stoped my automated subscription. I still have the paid account until March, but then I will see what they offerā¦ I hope they will provide me some good deal to stay with them.
For the new members they still offer first year for 19,99ā¦
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Iāve just had my renewal email for UG and itās increasing from AU $25 to AU $30. I wonder if theyāve had a rethink of how much they were increasing prices?
That sounds better. At $50 year though, it would still be great value if Iām being honest , given I use it alot.
Iāll see what they come up with around July.
Hope all is well mate.
Cheers, Shane
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In my initial post I was complaining about a price rise from Ā£19.99 to Ā£29.99 per year. I didnāt renew my subscription.
Yesterday I went back onto the site. They were now quoting Ā£39.99! However they also had a deal with a discount taking the price down to Ā£19.99. Iāve signed up to that one.
You really couldnāt follow this.
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Yeah, their pricing always seems scammy in this way.
Further, when I signed up there were deals if you SIGN UP NOW! expiry in 24 hours. Of
Course 24 hours later the timer simply resets. I eventually signed up thru the Apple App Store with prices that were different yet again, but at least I know I can cancel whenever I want without dealing directly with UG. At the time I signed up many forum posters complained itās difficult to cancel, so that seemed like a good solution.
Some ppl asked what a Pro subscription gets you. The professionally done recordings of drum, bass, and guitar tracks of popular songs are awesome. Thatās guitar karaoke, or even vocal karaoke if you want it.
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I think thatās an old issue, itās easy to cancel on the UG website now.