eMedia Guitar Method Deluxe Tutorial Pack

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Stop paying for hourly lessons. With 160+ lessons, 70+ songs and a 250-chord dictionary, this pack offers all the training you need at an affordable price.

Expanded version of the world's best-selling beginning guitar CD-ROM. There are 165 comprehensive lessons covering everything from the basics through chord strumming, playing melodies and fingerpicking. The modern rock chapter includes various contemporary strumming styles, movable power chords and power chord riffs. Now with over 50 full-motion videos including split-screens and close-ups of both hands. Includes an animated fretboard, multitrack audio, variable-speed MIDI and over 70 popular songs. This version also includes a rock version of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in the style of Guns 'N' Roses. Also features an automatic tuner, digital metronome, one-track recorder and 250-chord dictionary.

Intermediate Guitar Method features over 50 songs including:

"All Along the Watchtower" -- made famous by Bob Dylan
"All Along the Watchtower" -- rock version made famous by Jimi Hendrix
"Spoonful" -- made famous by Eric Clapton, Willie Dixon, and The Rolling Stones
"Jet Airliner" -- The Steve Miller Band
"Drive On" -- Johnny Cash
"Time in a Bottle" -- Jim Croce
"Fur Elise" -- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Malaguena" -- Ernesto Lecuona
"Touch of Grey" -- The Grateful Dead
"I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home" -- Grand Funk Railroad
"Too Much to Lose" -- made famous by Jeff Beck
"Sloop John B" -- made famous by the Beach Boys.

Features:

- Music Notation or Tablature: Every screen can be displayed in either guitar tablature or standard music notation with an easily accessible menu option.
- read more Audio Tracking: Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they're heard makes it easy to follow along on guitar.
- Full Motion Video: Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you in over 30 videos with demonstrations of techniques.
- Animated Fretboard: Watch the fretboard come alive with real-time display of notes, including bends, vibrato and slides. Includes both right- and left-handed views from both the perspective of looking down at your guitar and across at an instructor's guitar.
- Variable-speed MIDI: Slows down the audio to any tempo, while the Animated Fretboard shows song fingering as the music plays. Learn at the pace best suited to your skill level.
- Over 175 Step-by-Step Lessons: You'll learn to play solos like the ones Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix made famous, using skills such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, vibrato and slides. Barre chords and different strumming styles are covered in the rhythm chapters, and there's a fingerstyle chapter as well. Intervals, scales and the basics of improvisation are also covered in this comprehensive volume.
- Scale Directory: Fingerings, recordings and variable-speed MIDI for over 150 scales make practicing and learning scales easy. When scales are introduced in the lesson material, they are followed by sample songs applying those scales, making the learning experience practical and fun.
- Music Theory: An interactive circle of fifths helps teach music theory and is linked to scales in the scale directory. Intervals, chord construction, the basics of improvisation, and modes are also covered in Intermediate Guitar Method.
- Automatic Tuner: Tune your guitar quickly and easily. A precision gauge allows you to play into your computer's microphone and immediately get feedback to see if you're too high or too low. Full audio reference notes also provided.
- Chord Dictionary: Includes fingering charts and recorded sounds for over 1000 chords. Easy access helps you learn songs with chords quickly. An indispensable reference tool.
- Digital Metronome: Allows you to set your own tempo and work on your picking speed, rhythm and timing. Provides both visual cue and/or audio tick. Full range of tempos, from largo to presto.
- Digital Recorder: Record and play yourself back -- this feature allows you to compare your recordings with the instructor's version, fine tune your skills and store musical ideas.
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System Requirements

Windows
Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7
CD-ROM

Macintosh
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
CD-ROM

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 888-363-3424

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. (1 ratings)
Submitted May 22, 2007 by a customer from yahoo.com

"Best software for learning guitar."

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars
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This review has been selected by our experts as particularly helpful.
I've looked at other guitar software for learning. A lot of them seem cheap and other reviews said they didn't work. Everything I read about eMedia said it worked and was a great value. After using myself I have to agree.
Sound
It's great that you can slow down the audio to learn songs.
Features
It comes with a tuner, a metronome and a chord dictionary that are really helpful even after you've done the lessons.
Ease of Use
Really easy to use.
Value
For $80 this is a deal. I bought them alone for $60 each and even that was a good deal considering what lessons can cost.
Manufacturer Support
I didn't need to use their support but I guess that means it's well made.

Musical Background:

Active Musician

Musical Style:

Rock, Pop, Jazz
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