Learn to Play Guitar with This Stylish Beginner Guitar and Award-Winning Guitar Software.

The eMedia Essential Guitar Pack provides everything you need to learn to play guitar right away. You get a great-looking beginner guitar set-up for easy playing, all the accessories you’ll need, and eMedia’s best-selling Guitar Method software for Windows and Mac. Plus you get the eMedia Essential Acoustic Guitar Interactive DVD, which is great if you want to learn to play guitar but don’t have a computer.

eMedia Guitar Method software lets you learn at your own pace and includes over 180 easy-to-follow, comprehensive lessons authored and demonstrated by professional guitarist and teacher Kevin Garry, Ph.D. Over 50 videos and interactive lessons guide you through how to tune a guitar, how to play simple guitar chords, and other guitar basics. Beginner guitar lessons have never been this easy! Then you’ll advance to learning how to read guitar TABs (tablature) and standard music notation, and learn more difficult strumming patterns and other guitar techniques. eMedia technologies, such as Interactive Feedback, make learning easier. Guitar lessons are fun when you practice with the over 70 included songs including hits made famous by Bob Dylan, Steve Miller, the Rolling Stones, and others.

Interactive Feedback on Your Playing

Instant Feedback shows you when you play the correct notes on your guitar as you progress through an exercise. With a microphone connected to your computer and a guitar in your hands, play the notes in the exercise (or song) on any screen featuring the “ear” icon in the upper right corner and the computer will highlight the notes for you in green. You’ll discover that reading tablature and music notation is easier than you ever thought possible!

Note and Finger Tracker

The Note Tracker and Finger Tracker tools makes it easier to see what note you’re playing by displaying the note as music notation and on eMedia’s Animated Fretboard. You’ll be able to correct your playing quickly and learn to read music fast!

Interactive Flash Card Quizzes

After you’ve been prepped with exercises designed to teach you to read tablature and notation, try the interactive flash card quizzes to reinforce what you have learned. Flash card quizzes utilize our Pitch Tracking technology to detect notes played on your acoustic guitar!

Over 180 Step-by-Step Guitar Lessons

Arranged in ten chapters, the lessons cover the basics from holding, stringing, and tuning the guitar to playing chords and melodies, culminating in an explanation of fingerpicking styles and reading standard music notation. Lessons include a variety of exercises and songs. In total, there are over 50 high-quality videos and over three hours of audio and video! On-screen teacher Kevin Garry, Ph.D., provides clear and friendly instruction.

eMedia Guitar Method features songs in a variety of genres to make learning fun and memorable – including Rock, Blues, Folk, Country, and Classical! Our latest version includes dynamic, enhanced, multi-track audio playback of hit songs popularized by well-known artists, such as:

• Bob Dylan (“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”)
• Rolling Stones/The Doors (“Little Red Rooster”)
• The Steve Miller Band (“Rock’n Me”)
• Heart (“Dreamboat Annie”)
• Rod Stewart/Tom Waits (“Downtown Train”)
• The Grateful Dead (“Uncle John’s Band”)

Also included are popular songs, including “Scarborough Fair,” “La Bamba,” “Midnight Special,” “Ode to Joy,” “Minuet,” “Greensleeves,” “House of the Rising Sun” and many others.

Over 50 Guitar Lesson Videos

Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you in over 50 videos with demonstrations of techniques – now larger, with enhanced quality! Many of the videos include split-screen displays with close-ups for a clearer perspective. You can even view them in full-screen mode if you want to.

Music Notation Display Options

Learn via guitar tablature or standard music notation through this easily accessible menu option.

Music Tracking

Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they’re heard makes it easy to follow along on guitar.

Variable-Speed MIDI

Slows down the audio to any tempo, while the Animated Fretboard shows song fingerings as the music plays. Learn at the pace best suited to you!

Animated Fretboard

The Animated Fretboard displays fingering positions as the music plays. It allows you to see exactly how to play the song on a guitar fretboard as you hear the music. Since you can highlight and loop any section of the music (or even double-click on a single note in the music), you can use the Animated Fretboard to make difficult sections or quick changes easier to manage and learn. The Animated Fretboard makes it simple to follow along with the lesson content. Includes option for both right- and left-handed views, and, just for fun, choose from six different fretboard skins modeled after classic guitars!

Guitar Tuner

Tune your guitar quickly and easily. A precision gauge allows you to play into your computer’s microphone and tune up interactively. Reference guitar tuning notes are also included.

Chord Dictionary

With fingering charts and recorded playback for over 250 chords. Find new chords for songs quickly.

Metronome

Set your tempo and practice keeping a steady beat with audio and visual indicators.

Audio Recorder

Save your recordings and play back to share and compare.

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Warranty: 1 year eMedia Music