eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method Win/Mac Reviews
eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method Win/Mac Feature
- Take your playing beyond basic chords and melodies
- Learn to play solos like Clapton and Hendrix
- Scale directory provides fingerings and recordings of over 200 scales
- 30 videos with demonstrations of techniques
- Helps teach music theory chord construction and the basics of improvisation
Divided into six categories--left-hand techniques, barre chords, strumming styles, scales, solos, and fingerstyle guitar--the program delivers no less than 175 individual lessons and 41 appendices featuring most every popular musical scale in both open and closed fingering patterns, and a handy virtual chord dictionary. Most lessons allow you to adjust the speed of the music to suit your personal preference and loop certain sections for repetitive replay. Several sessions also offer optional narratives and video, though the narratives are too abbreviated to be truly informative and the video snippets, where veteran instructor Kevin Garry offers personal advice on certain techniques, are equally condensed and confined to a small window.
eMedia has provided several additional perks to make your job a bit easier, including an integrated metronome to help keep the beat, an optional tablature display for those who can't read musical notation, and an animated fretboard that graphically demonstrates each lesson's fingering positions in both left- and right-handed formats. The program's tuner isn't quite so impressive, behaving just as erratically as most computer tuners, and certainly not a replacement for a handheld digital or quartz unit. A small but serviceable audio recorder allows you to build a library of your own efforts and even jam along with self-penned arrangements.
The program concerns itself more with clean and semi-clean acoustic and electric guitar rather than heavily distorted hard rock. A valuable but curious assortment of songs dominates its many lessons, in particular Grand Funk Railroad's mysterious "I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home," The Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey," and Jim Croce's exquisite "Time in a Bottle." Several complex classical pieces end the proceedings, culminating in the celebrated but extremely demanding arpeggio masterpiece "Romanza." It should be noted that although none of the selections are original recordings, all are capably translated and played.
Although eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method isn't especially high-spirited, it does offer a deluge of material that will ultimately benefit any guitarist with the talent and the drive to successfully take it on. With a ton of challenging musical passages and cool licks, some nifty utilities, and plenty of guitar exploration, it is recommended to novice players with virtuoso desires. --Gordon Goble eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method is the next step in an award-winning line of educational guitar method softwareLearn to play lead guitar and more! Everything you need to take your playing beyond basic chords and melodies. New techniques are demonstrated in over 175 lessons with full-motion video, variable-speed MIDI, recorded audio and an animated fretboard.You'll learn to play solos like the ones Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix made famous, using newly acquired lead guitar skills. You'll also find rhythm and fingerstyle chapters, plus lessons on the basics of improvisation. The new scale directory provides fingerings, recordings and variable-speed MIDI for over 200 scales. Additional accessories include an automatic tuner, digital metronome, recorder and 1000-chord dictionary with audio playback.'The ultimate way to learn how to play guitar!'- Peter FramptonIntermediate Guitar Methodfeatures 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'Für Elise' - Ludwig van Beethoven'Malagueña' - 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.'Four Picks!' Highest rating given!- PC Magazine'I used to teach guitar, and eMedia's Guitar Method is the greatest because it centers around playing songs. And if it's not about playing songs, what's it about?'- Nancy Wilson, guitarist/vocalist of HeartMusic Notation or TablatureEvery screen can be displayed in either guitar tablatur
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