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Guitar Method Volume 1 for Beginners CD-ROM

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Overview

Best-selling beginning guitar method will get you going fast!

The eMedia Guitar Method Volume 1 for Beginners CD-ROM contains over 160 comprehensive lessons covering everything from the basics through chord strumming, playing melodies, and fingerpicking. New modern rock chapter includes various strumming styles, movable power chords, and power chord riffs. Now with over 50 videos from instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., including split-screens and close-ups of both hands. Learning guitar is made fun through over 70 songs including familiar hits from artists such as Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Steve Miller. This new version also includes a new rock rendition of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in the style of Guns N' Roses.

Includes an animated fretboard, which displays the fingering for each song and exercise in real-time, adjustable to 4 different viewing angles. Multitrack audio gives full band accompaniment on many of the hit songs. Variable-speed MIDI track option allows students to practice any song or exercise at whatever tempo they want. Learn guitar using either tablature or standard music notation. Additional features include a built-in automatic tuner, digital metronome, recorder, and 250-chord dictionary.

Features

  • Over 160 comprehensive lessons
  • Over 70 songs
  • Over 50 videos with split-screen close-ups
  • Strumming
  • Fingerpicking
  • Melodies
  • Animated fretboard with 4 viewing angles
  • Automatic tuner
  • Digital metronome
  • Recorder
  • Internet song guide
  • 250-chord dictionary
  • Variable-speed MIDI tracks
  • Songs include:
  • "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" acoustic version by Bob Dylan and rock version in the style of Guns N' Roses
  • "Little Red Rooster" made famous by the Rolling Stones
  • "Rock N' Me" Steve Miller Band
  • "Downtown Train" made famous by Rod Stewart
  • "Uncle John's Band" Grateful Dead
  • "Scarborough Fair" made famous by Simon & Garfunkel
  • "Ode to Joy" Ludwig van Beethoven
  • "House of the Rising Sun" made famous by the Animals
  • "La Bamba" made famous by Ritchie Valens and Los Lobos
  • "Midnight Special" made famous by Creedence Clearwater Revival
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