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An instructional CD-ROM equivalent to several thousand dollars worth of private guitar lessons.
eMedia Guitar Method Deluxe, Version 2 includes everything you need to learn to play with 355 audio- and video-enhanced lessons and over 150 songs. Also included are an automatic tuner, metronome, recorder, 1000-chord dictionary, a scale-directory and more. eMedia Guitar Method Deluxe 2 Version 2 comes with CDs. The first, eMedia Guitar Method, has received top ratings and honors from PC Magazine (Editors’ Choice), Guitar Player, Guitar One and Newsweek (Top 50 CD-ROMs of the Year). The second, eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method takes your playing to the next level and has received praise from guitarists and guitar teachers alike. Guitar icon Peter Frampton says, "This is the ultimate way to learn how to play guitar! You learn at your own pace and it’s easy for anybody."
Instant feedback on your playing
In Guitar Method, Instant Feedback shows you when you play the correct notes on your guitar as you progress through an exercise. With a microphone connected to your computer and a guitar in your hand, play the notes in the exercise (or song) on any screen featuring the “ear” icon in the upper right corner and the computer will highlight the notes for you in green. As you reach your goals of getting all notes to change color in each exercise, you’ll discover that reading tablature and music notation is easier than you ever thought possible before.
Note and Finger Tracker
The Note Tracker and Finger Tracker tools help you see more easily what note you’re playing by displaying the note as music notation and on an animated fretboard. You’ll be able to correct your playing quickly and learn to read music fast.
Interactive Flash Card Quizzes
After you’ve been prepped with exercises designed to teach you to read tablature and notation, try the interactive flash card quizzes to reinforce what you have learned. Flash Quizzes utilize eMedia's Pitch Tracking technology to detect notes played on your acoustic guitar.
Over 350 Step-by-Step Lessons
The easy-to-follow lessons start with the basics, such as stringing the guitar, and move to playing simple chords and strumming styles, including modern rock strumming and power chords. They continue on with reading tablature, playing melodies, fingerpicking, and standard music notation. The intermediate volume moves on with additional techniques in exciting solos, barre chords, fingerstyle guitar, scales and improvisation. Your teacher is professional guitarist Kevin Garry, Ph.D., from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The excellent teaching he offers will get you playing quickly.
eMedia Guitar Method features songs in a variety of genres to make learning fun and memorable – including rock, blues, folk, country, and classical. Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they’re heard makes it easy to follow along on guitar. This latest version includes dynamic, enhanced, multi-track audio playback of hit songs popularized by well-known artists, such as:
"12-Bar Blues"
"Alouette"
"Amazing Grace"
"Au Clair de la Lune"
"Auld Lang Syne"
"Aura Lee"
"Bach Minuet"
"Blues Shuffle"
"Boogie Woogie Bass"
"Brahms’ Lullaby"
"Brother John"
"Camptown Races"*
"Careless Love"
'Corrina, Corrina"
"Down in the Valley"
"Downtown Train"
"Dreamboat Annie"
"Drunken Sailor"
"Frère Jacques"
"Go Tell Aunt Rhody"
"Greensleeves"
"He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands"
"Hey, Ho, Nobody Home"
"Home on the Range"
"House of the Rising Sun"
"Hush, Little Baby"
"Jingle Bells"
"Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier"
"Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door"
"La Bamba"
"Largo (from the New World Symphony)"
"Little Red Rooster"
"Londonderry Air"
"Marianne"
"Midnight Special"
"My Bonnie"
"My Darling Clementine"
"Ode to Joy"
"Oh, Susanna"
"On Top of Old Smokey"
"Red River Valley"
"Rock’n Me"
"Rock Steady"
"Rocky Be Goode"
"Romanza"
"Scarborough Fair"
"She’ll be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain"
"Shenandoah"
"Silent Night"
"Skip to My Lou"*
"Star-Spangled Banner"
"Sur la Pont d’Avignon"
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
"Uncle John’s Band"
"Volga Boatmen"
"When the Saints Go Marching In"
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
"Working on the Railroad"
"Worried Man Blues"
"Yankee Doodle"
"Yellow Rose of Texas"
* Some versions contain “Camptown Races” in place of “Skip to My Lou”
Over 80 large-format videos
Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you in over 80 videos with demonstrations of techniques that are larger with enhanced quality over the previous version. Many of the videos include split-screen displays with close-ups for a clearer perspective of what he's doing, and you should be honing. In Guitar Method, you can even view them in full-screen mode if you want to.
Music notation display options
Learn via guitar tablature or standard music notation through this easily accessible menu option.
Animated Fretboard
The Animated Freboard displays fingering positions for you as the music plays. It allows you to see exactly how to play the song on a simulated guitar fretboard as you listen to the music and the music tracking highlights the notes being played on the screen. Since you can highlight and loop any section of the music (or even double-click on a single note in the music), you can use the Animated Fretboard to make difficult sections or quick changes easier to manage and learn. The Animated Fretboard makes it simple to follow along with the lesson content. Includes option for both right- and left-handed views, and, just for fun, in Guitar Method you can choose from six different fretboard skins modeled after classic guitars.
Variable-Speed MIDI
Slows down the audio to any tempo, while the Animated Fretboard shows song fingerings as the music plays. Learn at a pace that is best suited for you.
Scale Directory
Fingerings, recordings and variable-speed MIDI for over 150 scales make practicing and learning new 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.
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