Description:
eMedia Guitar Method, Vol. 1 eliminates any excuse you may have for leaving your guitar sitting dormant and dusty in the corner. Designed with the beginner in mind, this software offers more than 150 lessons, including everything from how to hold your guitar to chord progressions and fingerpicking techniques. Plus, the exercises are accompanied by full-motion video, helpful audio advice, and an animated fretboard. Add in a digital metronome, digital recorder, and an automatic tuner, and your rationalizations for not learning are null and void. After setting aside just a couple of minutes for installation and setup, you're ready to go. Upon launching the software, you're given a complete table of contents, making it easy to access whichever lesson you want to start on. If you've never picked up a guitar, the first few lessons are handy, guiding you through different types of guitars, how to string a guitar, tuning, holding, and finger position. All the language is simple and easy to understand, and before long you're playing your first song. Two of the nicest features are the animated fretboard and full-motion videos. The video demonstrations are perfect for people who may need to hear things more than once or twice. Want to see just how your fingers should be positioned for that full G chord? Just click and watch as many times as you want. And for learning to play songs, the animated fretboard is great, showing you just which fingers go where and when. And the more than 70 songs included are good, too, ranging among such artists as Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Heart, and the Steve Miller Band. Teaching yourself to play guitar can be frustrating and boring. Fortunately, eMedia has made learning guitar interesting, uncomplicated, and just plain fun. --Joshua Goldman
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