Agile Partners and Guitar World magazine are celebrating the 500,000th download of the Guitar World Lick of the Day app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, by offering special discounts on subscriptions to the app for a limited time. In addition, version 1.1 of the app has been released with free sponsored licks and other new features.

The Guitar World Lick of the Day app provides guitar players of all levels with a way to improve their guitar skills across a wide range of styles, from rock, metal, and blues to country, jazz, and more. Did we mention that you can try the app for free? Guitar World Lick of the Day can be downloaded for free to evaluate its instructional content and features. If you decide that you like it, you can purchase a subscription within the app to receive a new lick every day.

To celebrate the 500,000 downloads milestone, significant subscription discounts are now available for a limited time. One-month subscriptions are discounted from $4.99 to $1.99, three-month subscriptions from $12.99 to $4.99, and six-month subscriptions from $19.99 to $9.99.

Guitar World Lick of the Day features:

• Videos of Guitar World’s instructors and celebrities, such as Zakk Wylde, Joe Satriani, Gus G., and Phil Collen
• Licks in a range of styles: rock, metal, blues, country, jazz, and more
• Celebrity videos from the Guitar World Vault
• Scrolling tab and standard music notation for each lick
• Practice mode with settings that control music notation tempo, looping, audio synthesis, a metronome, and more
• Visual fretboard that shows finger positions synchronized with the scrolling music notation (lefties can invert the fretboard)
• Performance notes written by Guitar World's instructors
• Download licks to any iOS device that you own
• "Star" your favorite licks to find them later easily, and sort licks by genre and difficulty
• Synchronization of favorite licks across subscribers' devices
• Full support for portrait and landscape orientations on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch
• Option to receive notifications when new licks are available
• In-app tools for customer support and providing feedback

Version 1.1 of Guitar World Lick of the Day introduces several features, including sponsored licks that provide you with a way to get more licks for free. Sponsored licks begin with a short video message about the sponsor's product and include all the features that make Lick of the Day the guitar instruction app it is. Other new features include AirPlay support on iOS 4.3 devices, full support for landscape orientation on the iPhone and iPod Touch, synchronization of favorite licks across devices for subscribers, and the option to receive notifications when new licks are available.

The app is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad running iOS 3.0 or later.

For more information, visit lickofthedayapp.com.