eMedia Guitar Master

by eMedia

Product Features

• Everything you need to learn to play rock guitar at your own pace
• Over 100 audio- and video-enhanced lessons and gear tips
• Includes songs and artists featured in Guitar Hero and Rock Band
• Helpful built-in tools like Digital Metronome, Chord Dictionary & Digital Recorder
• Exclusive Animated Fretboard shows you exactly where to put your fingers on the neck

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001FY3JK8
• Item model number: EG09081
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 11, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,775 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #36 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Instruction

Product Description

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Guitar Master will teach you to play for real with over 100 audio- and video-enhanced rock guitar lessons. You can start from ground zero, and our revolutionary teaching style will have you playing songs, chords and riffs within minutes. Soon you'll be playing hit songs found in Guitar Hero and Rock Band, including "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath and "You Really Got Me" as by Van Halen.

Over 100 guitar lessons included. Click to enlarge.

Over 50 videos demonstrate techniques. Click to enlarge.

eMedia's exclusive Animated Fretboard shows you exactly where to put your fingers on the neck! Click to enlarge.

Instructor Charles McCrone, a graduate of the cutting-edge Guitar Institute of Technology with over 25 years of playing and teaching experience, takes you through all the techniques needed to play rock, punk and metal. These include movable power chords, barre chords, effects pedals, yanks, hammer-ons, pull-offs, palm muting, distorted riffs, the blues scale, using feedback, the whammy bar and more! All these techniques are applied to playing hit songs, with an animated fretboard guiding you through fingerings as the music plays.

Built-in Tools Included

Chord Dictionary

Digital Recorder

Digital Metronome

Automatic Tuner

Hit songs include:

• "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath
• "You Really Got Me" as by Van Halen
• "Lake of Fire" by Nirvana
• "Tired of Waiting for You" as by Green Day
• "All Day and All of the Night" by the Kinks
• "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult
• "Tomorrow" by Silverchair
• "All Right Now" by Free
• and many more!

Also includes songs in the style of Blink 182, Rage Against the Machine, AC/DC and many more!

• Enjoy hours of live recorded multi-track audio.
• Watch the techniques demonstrated in over 50 full-motion videos.
• Spoken tips and advice from the instructor are just a click away.
• Song looping lets you highlight and repeat any section of music you wish to practice.
• Slow the music down with variable-speed MIDI tracks.
• Music tracking highlights notes or chords as they are played.

Built-in Power Tools:

Automatic Tuner
Tune your guitar quickly and easily! Play into your computer microphone and tune up interactively. Reference tuning notes are also included.

Chord Dictionary
Includes fingering charts and recorded sound playback for over 250 chords. Helps you learn songs with new chords.

Animated Fretboard
Displays fingering positions as the music plays. Also shows fingering for any chord or note you double-click. Features right-handed, left-handed and mirror views.

Digital Metronome
Set your own tempo and keep a steady beat with audio and/or visual feedback.

Digital Recorder
Save your recordings and play them back to share with friends or compare to the instructor's version.

Guitar Master gives you everything you need to play for real!

Product Description

The eMedia Guitar Master CD-ROM makes learning quick and easy with over 100 audio and video enhanced guitar lessons and rock gear tips. You can start from ground zero, and our revolutionary teaching style will have you playing songs, chords, and riffs within minutes. Instructor Charles McCrone, a graduate of the cutting-edge Guitar Institute of Technology, with over 25 years of playing and teaching experience, takes you through all the techniques needed to play rock, punk and metal. These include movable power chords, barre chords, effects pedals, yanks, hammer ons, pull offs, palm muting, distorted riffs, the blues scale, using feedback, the whammy bar and more! Guitar Master is hosted by Steve Rock (KISW "Metal Shop").

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay for a start., April 18, 2011

By 

W. R. Logan "Author" (Tampa Fl) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eMedia Guitar Master (CD-ROM)

Bought this for my daughter who has been playing for about a year now. Most of the first lessons were below her skill level. She was pretty excited to have the animated fretboard to help her learn songs like "Lake of Fire" and AC DC songs. When we got the program and she got to those songs she was disappointed because it only teaches one or two bars of the songs not the whole song. There are only a couple songs they teach all of and they weren't songs she wanted to learn.
so Pros
animated fretboard is an awsome way to learn
chord dictionary is a great tool
Metronome is helpful
the digital recorder will help you hear your progress

Cons
it teaches only a few bars of each song
most of the lessons are very basic
the vocals on the disk are really bad

Overall it is worth the money to learn some of the styles but would be better if they could teach whole songs. I don't think anyone likes to be able to only play 2 bars of a song.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good for begininers, June 9, 2009

By 

Bryan "B.W." (Carpentersville, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: eMedia Guitar Master (CD-ROM)

I think it is great for someone just learning and never touch a guitar before . I have played before and it had been a while so I was looking for something more of a review and to bring myself back up to speed since it has been a while since I had played guitar. I'm always in front of the computer so I figured this would be perfect to do on the computer. I am learning some things from the cd and it has help motivate me to play again and i have been picking up my guitar doing so more often. and the tips given on this cd has also help alot with setting up the sound I'm looking for.as of now I have not finished it yet but I would say yes it is worth the money . but I would also say if you are a pretty good guitar player already well then this isn't for you. Chances are you already know most if not all of what is on this cd . but if you are just starting out or just want to get motivated to play again and need to get back to the basics this may work for you and some of the tips on this cd will be of great help to you too.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great guitar software, January 27, 2011

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JCJ - See all my reviews

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This review is from: eMedia Guitar Master (CD-ROM)

Easy to use, very informative and convenient. This software provides easy to follow steps for a beginner to learn the basics of guitar playing and makes learning fun.