🎸 A Guitar Gift for Dad — Save 20% on Premium Membership


Reader – if you're looking for a last minute Father's Day gift, I've got you covered!

For the next 3 days, gifted memberships to Song Notes Premium are 20% off.

This gives you, your dad, or whoever you send the gift to, a full year of membership for $79 instead of $99.

Here's a quick video explaining how the gifting process works:

A quick text summary:

  1. Click here and buy the gifted membership
  2. I'll email you a magic link.
  3. You share the magic link with the gift recipient. You can do this at your leisure! No rush.
  4. The recipient activates the membership by clicking the magic link... and that's it! Their full year of membership begins.

Don't wait... the 20% discount ends Sunday at midnight!

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Song Notes by David Pots

Learn to play guitar with weekly video lessons & print-friendly guides! Learn your favorite songs & techniques with step-by-step tutorials that actually explain how to get from here to there.

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