September/October 2008
			WorkshopLive Wins Best Buy Distribution Deal! We're pleased to officially announce that a new product line of WorkshopLive.com gift cards and instructional DVDs is available exclusively in hundreds of Best Buy stores nationwide and online at www.BestBuy.com. These new products were specifically co-designed with Best Buy's Musical Instruments team in Minneapolis, and lessons cover every instrument available on WorkshopLive.com plus entirely new Vocal lessons taught by two Broadway stars. These products make excellent gifts so look for them in your local Best Buy! Read the official press release here.
			Breakthrough Ovation iDea Guitar Launches with WorkshopLive "Smarts" The world's first acoustic/electric guitar and preamp with a built-in MP3 recorder/player, called the Ovation iDea, will be released to the public on November 1st nationwide. Loaded onto it will be a set of special WorkshopLive songwriting guitarist lessons converted to MP3 form. We agree with Ovation when they say that this is a perfect solution for a beginner buying their first guitar. Here's our crew alongside the Ovation team at the press conference in Bloomfield, CT. From left: WorkshopLive-chief content officer Nathaniel Gunod, Ovation-product manager Rick Hall, Ovation-product manager Jeff Hasselberger, WorkshopLive-chief marketing officer Bob Land and WorkshopLive founder/CEO David Smolover. Read the official press release here. Enjoy!
			WorkshopLive Launches OvationiDea.com To support the launch of the Ovation iDea guitar and preamp, WorkshopLive was contracted to build www.ovationidea.com, a first-of-its-kind Website to accompany the launch of any guitar ever sold. The site provides the required product registration form and downloadable manuals but in addition, visitors can download (for FREE) several more lessons which complement those being loaded onto the preamp at the factory.
			WorkshopLiveTV Casting Call Update As you may recall from our August newsletter, we have begun our search for the next host(s) of our popular WorkshopLiveTV programming currently on YouTube. With almost 3 million views to date, this show has definitely gained a great viewership. Here's a clip which was recently added to YouTube showing some of the tremendous talent we met and some, um, frogs we also had to kiss along the way — but they all had HEART! View the video here.
			George Benson Breezin' Lounge Update It's coming!! Trust us! As you could probably tell from the first announcement in this newsletter, we've been rather sidetracked building a site to support Best Buy. HOWEVER, we would never disappoint GB fans without adding something extra good so when we launch George's club, we'll be supporting it with an exclusive contest sponsored by Ibanez for one lucky club member to WIN a very sweet GB signature guitar. Don't worry, you won't miss the launch or contest. We'll send out an email with the details right on the heels of the launch.
			New Rock Soloing Book Available from NGW National Guitar Workshop Publications would like to announce the release of Easy Soloing for Rock Guitar by Jason Kokoszka. Pick up Easy Soloing for Rock Guitar and discover soloing that will allow any beginner to step into the spotlight and rip a killer solo! The informative book and CD set provides beginners with everything they need to get started including basic scales, techniques, and pointers. Individuals can learn solos in the book as written, or use them as a guide to write their own. The ideal low-stress introduction to the art of rock improvisation, Easy Soloing for Rock Guitar provides practical guidelines for musicians who know the basics of guitar and want to take their playing further. For students, beginning to intermediate, the book features standard music notation and TAB, and includes a CD demonstrating all the examples in the book! 48 pages, book and CD. $15.25 (10% off the cover price) Go to http://www.guitarworkshop.com/store to order. Enter this coupon code (10discount) at checkout to receive an extra 10% off any order of $50 or more.
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