Guitropolis

by Alfred

Product Features

• Teaches note-reading in standard notation and TAB
• Songs include full accompaniments in a variety of styles - over 60 popular songs in all
• Ages 9 and up.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B000059OO8
• Item model number: 00-14444
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 6, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,813 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Transport to another world and learn all that's needed to play the guitar. Be able to read music, strum more than 90 chords, play simple leads, and jam along with your favorite sheet music. Guitropolis is a city that has but one purpose: to start people on the path to superstardom. Each of the 10 locations in Guitropolis contains lessons, songs, and exercises that teach how to play guitar.

Users learn about the different types of guitars, how to hold and tune a guitar, and the fundamentals of reading music. Learn to play melodies, chords, scales, and songs in a variety of styles, all at your own pace. After finishing the course part of each location, you'll have to successfully complete a puzzle or game in order to gain access to the next stop in the journey to stardom. Like the course material, the games are concealed somewhere in each location. You have to go through the course material before you're allowed to play the game and move on to the next step.

The software teaches how to read standard music notation and TAB. Songs include full accompaniments in a variety of styles with more than 60 popular songs in all. Guitropolis introduces advanced techniques like hammer-ons and pull-offs. Get right to the course materials at any time by accessing the method-only version. The software includes an interactive song player that lets you see exactly how each song should be played. Use the player to adjust tempo, mix accompaniment audio, and record performances, as well.

Product Description

An adventure in learning to play the guitar

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor, February 7, 2008

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S. Dodson "SteveD" (Dakar, Senegal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guitropolis (DVD-ROM)

Installs incorrectly, requires helping program find files it can't locate without active intervention. Poor interface system; user has to come all the way out of the program instead of going to main menu. No booklet or other documentation. I haven't been able to wade through it all, but the instruction program itself seems poorly laid out. Avoid.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hangs in Mac OSX, January 22, 2005

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R. Marshall "Marshall" (right coast, near the middle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guitropolis (DVD-ROM)

Does not run properly in OSX. Tried on several fully up to date OSX 10.3.7 G3 and even high end G4 systems. The Basic Instruction vingettes hang (program stops responding) requiring a "force quit". The hangs are consistent and reproduceable indicating the software and not our various computers are at fault. When not hung much of the sound/animation is choppy.. and it's running natively in OSX! This package needs some work.