Acoustic Guitar Magazine Subscription

Pros: Excellent articles, playing tips, and song transcriptions

Cons: Very little criticism, some transcriptions of crummy tunes

The Bottom Line: GWA is a must-by for pros and amateurs alike who want to be informed about players, music, and gear.

Review: Guitar World Acoustic (GWA) is the companion magazine to Guitar World and Bass Player magazines. Published bi-monthly, its 100 or so pages are best designed for guitar players of intermediate abilities and up, although it has enough ...

Pros: The profiles the songs

Cons: cost

Review: I think the magazine is very good. They give you like 5 songs that you can learn. They give you good profiles on bands/singers. One song they have published Black Balloon by Goo Goo Dolls. I love how they did it. They gave you the chord music one page...

Pros: Music lessons from the best

Cons: Lots of ads

Review: Acoustic Guitar is a great magazine. I buy it for the transcriptions, but there are really great articles in it too. The transcripts are usually mixed with a few new songs and a few oldies or classics. The transcripts are not in the usual music...

Pros: Where to get your next guitar that will be worth MILLIONS!

Cons: Bad ads and cost so much money!

Review: Where to get your next guitar that will be worth MILLIONS!

I just love the layout of the site. I have never read the magazine. I just read the on-line publications because I just to not have the money to spend on such a wonderful reading...

Pros: Good tabs, occasionally good writing

Cons: Very inconsistent

Review: Most of us guitar players who pick up these types of magazines are buying for the four or five guitar tabs included, not for the articles. To a degree Acoustic Guitar has been able to change that a little by putting more emphasis on the writing and...