eMedia Guitar Method Deluxe Lessons & Guitar Tuner (Download)
eMedia Guitar Method Deluxe combines beginner guitar lessons and intermediate guitar lessons into one great, extra value package containing over 360 audio- and video-enhanced lessons and over 130 songs that you can learn to play. Learn quickly with the carefully planned, step-by-step curriculum combined with eMedia music technology designed to enhance learning. Included in the applications are a built-in automatic tuner, metronome, recorder, 1000-chord dictionary, scale-directory, and a fretboard note chart.
eMedia Guitar Method has received top ratings and honors from PC Magazine (Editors’ Choice), Guitar Player, Guitar One and Newsweek. You can take your playing to the next level with eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method, which 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.”
Features include:
Instant Feedback on Your Playing
Instant Feedback shows you when you play the correct chords or notes on your guitar as you progress through an exercise. With a microphone connected to your computer and a guitar in your hands, 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. You’ll discover that reading tablature and music notation is easier than you ever thought possible!
Performance Evaluation and Progress Tracking
When you’re ready, you can switch to Performance Evaluation and get feedback on both pitch and rhythm to help you improve your playing! Earn up to a 5-star rating or view your score as a percentage. We’ve also added Progress Tracking so you can review your best scores and track your progress through the course.
Note and Finger Tracker
The Note Tracker and Finger Tracker tools makes it easier to see what note you’re playing by displaying the note as music notation and on eMedia’s 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 card quizzes utilize our Pitch Tracking technology to detect notes played on your acoustic guitar!
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 and eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method feature 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. Our latest version includes dynamic, enhanced, multi-track audio playback of hit songs popularized by well-known artists, such as:
- Bob Dylan ("Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door")
- Eric Clapton/The Rolling Stones ("Spoonful")
- Jim Croce ("Time in a Bottle")
- Bob Dylan/Jimi Hendrix ("All Along the Watchtower")
- John Lennon ("Imagine")
- Johnny Cash ("Drive On" and "Wayfaring Stranger")
- Rolling Stones/The Doors ("Little Red Rooster")
- The Steve Miller Band ("Rock’n Me" and "Jet Airliner")
- Heart ("Dreamboat Annie")
- Rod Stewart/Tom Waits ("Downtown Train")
- The Grateful Dead ("Uncle John’s Band")
Also included are popular songs, including “Scarborough Fair,” “La Bamba,” “Midnight Special,” “Ode to Joy,” “Minuet,” “Greensleeves,” “House of the Rising Sun” and many others.
Over 80 Guitar Lesson Videos
Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you in over 80 videos with demonstrations of techniques – now larger, with enhanced quality! Many of the videos include split-screen displays with close-ups for a clearer perspective. 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.
Music Tracking
Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they’re heard makes it easy to follow along on guitar.
Jam Tracks and Multi-Track Audio
Dozens of Jam Tracks give you the fun option to play along with a full band.
Song Highlighting and Looping
Song looping lets you highlight and repeat any section of music you wish to practice.
Variable Speed MIDI Tracks
Speed up or slow the tempo down as desired. Use this in combination with the looping feature, and you can learn at the pace best suited to you!
Animated Fretboard
The Animated Fretboard displays fingering positions as the music plays. It allows you to see exactly how to play the song on a guitar fretboard as you hear the music. 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, choose from six different fretboard skins modeled after classic guitars!
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 chapter in Intermediate Guitar Method. Intervals, chord construction, the basics of improvisation, and modes are also covered.
Guitar Tuner
Tune your guitar quickly and easily. A precision gauge allows you to play into your computer’s microphone and tune up interactively. Reference guitar tuning notes are also included.
Chord Dictionary
With fingering charts and recorded playback for over 1000 chords. Find new chords for songs quickly.
Metronome
Set your tempo and practice keeping a steady beat with audio and visual indicators.
Audio Recorder
Save your recordings and play back to share and compare.
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