eMedia Guitar Method, Vol.1 (Ver. 2)

by eMedia

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005RQRM
• Item model number: EG11011
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 18, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,424 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

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

Amazon.com Product Description

eMedia Guitar Method, Vol. 1 features 150 comprehensive lessons covering everything from the basics through strumming chords, playing melodies, and fingerpicking. It includes more than 30 videos and three hours of audio from guitar instructor Kevin Garry. Learning guitar is made fun through familiar hit songs by artists like Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Steve Miller. This new version includes additional lessons, including chapters on instrument care, chord progressions, and blues songs.

eMedia Guitar Method, Vol. 1 also features an animated fretboard, which displays the fingering for each song and exercise in real time and is adjustable to four separate viewing angles. Multitrack audio gives full band accompaniment on many of the hit songs. New to this version is a multispeed MIDI track option that allows students to practice any song or exercise at whatever tempo they want. The software also offers the option to learn using either tablature or standard music notation. Additional features include a built-in automatic tuner, digital metronome, recorder, and 250-chord dictionary.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loads of material. You"ll be inspired for months., November 15, 2002

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Paul Reed (Boca Raton, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: eMedia Guitar Method, Vol.1 (Ver. 2) (CD-ROM)

I've been using the Emedia Guitar CD-ROM for almost five months now and my progress is remarkable. Each newly taught guitar skill is backed up with songs and exercises to practice and refine that technique. My only problem with this product is the recorder is no better than the one included with most computers. The other built-in features (tuner, metronome and chord dictionary) are all very helpful. I've been going to a lot of free guitar tab sites and the chord dictionary is a great help for all those chords I haven't learned yet and are rarely written out. There is also a way to slow down any song on the program, which is very helpful now that I'm working on some more difficult stuff.

I highly recommend this for anyone serious about learning.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun learning with songs., August 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: eMedia Guitar Method, Vol.1 (Ver. 2) (CD-ROM)

I've been learning guitar from Guitar Method for about 3 months now and am very happy with my progress. The information is laid out in a very intuitive/easy to follow way. The lessons all progress very logically and keep you interested. Best of all, you learn with easy fun songs that make it a lot of fun. Right off the bat, you've got songs to practice the techniques you're learning. As the difficulty in techniques progresses, so do the songs. I'm already to the point where I can play Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan songs. It's a definite must have if you're learning guitar.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the price, April 20, 2002

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John M. Patterson (Lampasas, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eMedia Guitar Method, Vol.1 (Ver. 2) (CD-ROM)

If you want to learn to play the guitar, get this course. Before using this course I had never even picked up a guitar. In a month, I was playing. Here it is 6 month later and I'm playing well enough to play with just about anybody. The course layout is logical and makes learning something you can't help but do.

Chords are introduced one or two at a time and each lesson builds on previous lessons so that what you learned early on in the course remains fresh in your mind. Couple that with the video of the author demonstrating various techniques, animated fretboard, chord finder (with a diagram and audio of the chord) and metronome and you have a great course that makes learning to play the guitar very easy. As with any learning tool, you have to want to learn and you have to practice. But, this course is a great tool to get you to playing a guitar.