Riffmaster Pro Review
Introduction And Overview
Learning songs, licks and solos by ear is an absolutely vital part of becoming a good guitarist. Most excellent guitar players have spent many hours learning to play music by ear. They understand that music is a listening art, so anything you do that improves your musical ear is a good thing.
But unlike guitar gods of the past, we can take advantage of current technology to make transcribing things by ear far easier. We can use software like Riffmaster Pro to slow down those blindingly-fast licks and solos. And this is especially helpful if you are new to working out stuff by ear. 
Product Overview
Riffmaster Pro is a windows based software created by professional session guitarist, teacher and author Heath Nicholson. While Riffmaster Pro has a comprehensive set of features, here are a few of the most useful ones…
- It allows you to slow down any song while keeping the pitch the same.
- It allows you to loop certain sections of the song. (This is really useful if you are trying to work out a really hard lick).
- It can easily change the key of any song you import into Riffmaster Pro.
- It is very easy to import songs into Riffmaster Pro. (Both from your computer hard drive, and from an audio CD).
- It is compatible with 17 of the most common audio file types (including mp3, Mp4, Wav, wma, AFF)
Product Pricing:
Riffmaster Pro is currently priced at: $47.00 (US Dollars).
[IMPORTANT: The prices quoted above are accurate at the time of writing this review. Keep in mind that prices may change. So be sure to check out the Riff Master Pro website for the most up-to-date prices].
Guarantee:
Riffmaster Pro comes with a 60 day money-back guarantee. I feel that this is a very fair guarantee because it gives you plenty of time to use and evaluate the software.
What I Liked About Riffmaster Pro
I bought Riffmaster Pro 15 days ago, and have spent quite a lot of time playing around with it. Here are some of the things that I really like about Riffmaster Pro…
- Easy To Use: I normally hate learning to use new software that I buy. But I found Riffmaster Pro very easy to use. It has a very simple user interface that is intuitive to use. It only took me a minute or two to figure out how to load in a song in and slow it down.
- Excellent Sound Quality: Even when listening to the slowed down version of the song, I still found it easy to hear all the notes clearly.
- Pitch Function: I loved the pitch function of Riffmaster Pro. I was able to take a backing track and change it into a different keys. This allowed me to use the same backing track to practice soloing in different keys. Very cool.
- Reasonbly Priced: To be blunt $47.00 is NOTHING when I think about the time this software will save me.
What I Didn't Like About Riffmaster Pro
I found it hard to think of anything negative that I could say about Riffmaster Pro. But I refuse to write a review without at least one criticism. So here it is…
- Lack Of Manual: Although Riffmaster Pro does have five easy-to-follow training videos, I feel that some people might prefer a written manual of some kind. (Perhaps as a downloadble PDF document). We all learn differently, and some people prefer reading to watching videos.
The Bottom-Line
Riffmaster Pro is an excellent piece of software, that makes working out music by ear much easier. So if you are interested in learning songs, solos and licks by ear, then be sure to check it out. Just click on the link below now to learn more…
Filed under Product Reviews by Craig Bassett
