Customer Reviews for eMedia Guitar Method Platinum Edition

This beginner to advanced three CD-ROM guitar course is an exceptional value with over 350 lessons and over 140 songs. As a bonus, the Platinum edition features downloadable video lessons for your iPod, iPhone or iPad. This three disc set features over 350 lessons and will take you from a newbie to accomplished guitar player. Learn from over 140 songs including hits from artists such as the Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Grateful Dead, Guns N’ Roses, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. The easy-to-follow lessons start with the basics, such as stringing the guitar, and move to playing simple chords and strumming styles, including modern rock strumming and power chords. The lessons continue on to reading tablature and standard music notation, playing melodies and fingerpicking. The intermediate volume moves on with additional techniques in exciting solos, barre chords, fingerstyle guitar, scales and improvisation. Songs are recorded live, and hits even have multi-track full band accompaniment. As the songs play, an animated fretboard guides you through the fingerings, and MIDI tracks allow you to slow down and loop parts of the music for practice. eMedia Guitar Method offers beginners interactive feedback for melodies. The Note Tracker shows you what note you’re playing and Instant Feedback tracks your progress through the melody as you play. eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method’s scale directory provides fingerings, recordings and variable-speed MIDI for over 200 scales, making practicing and learning new scales easy. Learning guitar is made fun with over 140 songs, including famous hits from artists such as the Rolling Stone, The Who, Bob Dylan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Grateful Dead, Guns N’ Roses, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. Features: This three disc set features over 350 lessons and will take you from a newbie to accomplished guitar player.   Learn from over 140 songs including hits from artists such as the Rolling Stone, The Who, Bob Dylan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Grateful Dead, Guns N’ Roses, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix.   Guitar Method v5 includes new interactive feedback on melodies you play.   Animated Fretboard displays fingering positions as the music plays.   Includes automatic tuner, metronome, digital recorder and 1000-chord dictionary 200 scale directory, and more. System Requirements: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7   Mac OS X 10.4 or later   CD-ROM Model: 8080833