Portfolio, Self-Publishing, Forums, Archives, Downloads, Online Statements, Preferences, Wish lists, Profile and other tools enhance your overall TrueFire experience by allowing you to track your lessons, tweak your preferences, communicate with your peers and even self-publish your own lesson or performance on TrueFire if you wish.

TrueFire publishes a variety of educational and informative bulletins, newsletters and announcements featuring free audio and video lessons, interviews, course announcements and other items of interest for those with a passion for guitar. These communications are published by email, web pages and RSS.

TrueFire members and students take advantage of member-only promotions, preferred discounts, cooperative deals with our partners and pre-release specials on everything from TrueFire courses, DVDs, books, gear and software. One thing all of the promotions share in common are big savings off of street pricing.

At any given time, there are thousands of free audio and video lessons available for members and students alike. Our lessons cover all styles and are authored by some of the top artists and instructors in the biz!

Members and students love their TrueFire Cash! Almost every purchase you make on TrueFire puts TrueFire Cash back into your account. Your TrueFire Cash is as good as gold and can be used to pay for up to 25% of just about any item on TrueFire. You can even combine your TrueFire Cash with your student discount to net out monster savings.

Student discounts can be applied to absolutely every TrueFire course and interactive audio lesson (there are thousands of them!) without any red tape or small print disclaimers. Even brand new interactive video courses qualify. Plus, you can combine your student discount with your TrueFire Cash to net out monster savings.

You’ll need TrueFire TV access if you want to dig into thousands of video lessons, performances and interviews. Every video lesson, from every TrueFire video course is available on TrueFire TV in its entirety, along with hundreds of interviews and performances of top players from around the world. You can also access the notation, text, charts, practice rhythm tracks and Power Tab assets for lessons. Tune in TrueFire TV!

For those of you with insatiable appetites for fresh material to work with, put our monthly Video CD-ROMs on your plate. Get twenty video lessons with all the trimmings featured on TrueFire’s lesson player with zoom, looping, frame advance, practice jam tracks, notation and Power Tab (Windows and Mac compatible). These monthly video CD-ROMs focus primarily on developing better rhythm, improvisation and soloing chops and are optimized for late intermediate and advanced players. The Curriculum is presented in a practical musical context, minimizing tedious theory and exercises. Each CD-ROM's lesson plan develops key skills to expand a player's musical vocabulary and versatility across all styles.

When you first enroll as a TrueFire University Level 2 student, you'll get the last three monthly video CD-ROMs as an enrollment bonus and our way of saying thanks for jumping on the bus and establish continuity with the current series.

Sign up as TrueFire University Level II student and you also get our new and improved Improv Tool Kit (a $49 Value!), which includes 120 PRACTICE RHYTHM TRACKS Blues, Rock, Funk and Jazz tracks with lead sheets in TrueFire’s interactive audio player, DOZENS OF VIDEO EXAMPLES Links to a dozens of streaming video soloing and improvisation examples for specific tracks, TONAL COLOR CHART Instructional guide for adding tonal colors to your solos by using different scales and modes, FINGERBOARD DIAGRAMS Movable fingerboard diagrams illustrating 21 scales/modes for improvisation across 12 frets, IMPROV FORMULA METHOD A formula method for constructing chords arpeggios, scales and modes for improvisation and a 36-MINUTE IMPROV THEORY LESSON Brad Carlton, TrueFire’s Educational Director, walks you through a concise, insightful 36-minute lesson on soloing strategies and improv theory. The Improv Tool Kit comes on CD-ROM and is compatible with both Windows and Mac platforms.