eMedia Guitar Method v5 Software with 180+ Beginning Guitar Lessons for Windows, Electronic Download

Award-winning Guitar Lessons. Learn How to Play Guitar - Acoustic or Electric
The best-selling eMedia Guitar Method, featuring guitar lessons from University of Colorado-Boulder's Kevin Garry, Ph.D., is the most complete guitar instruction software available today. Plus eMedia Interactive Feedback technologies make understanding the lessons easier, so you learn how to play guitar faster.

Over 180 easy-to-follow guitar lessons take you from basics, such as how to tune a guitar and play simple chords, to fingerpicking, how to read guitar tabs and music notation and more. Interactive Feedback on melodies, which is unique to this method, helps you learn quickly. Over 70 easy guitar songs, including hits such as "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and "Rock'n Me" make learning fun!

Features
• More than 50 videos, with split-screen view and close-ups of both hands, show you the techniques needed to learn how to play guitar
• Over 180 guitar lessons by Kevin Garry, Ph.D, award-winning guitarist and Professor of Music, cover rock, blues, folk and classical to teach you how to play guitar in a variety of styles
• Integrated guitar software tools include an automatic guitar tuner, chord chart/dictionary, fingering charts and metronome
• eMedia's Animated Fretboard shows fingerings for chords and notes
• Note Tracker and Finger Tracker technology displays the notes you're playing in staff notation and on the Animated Fretboard as the guitar software listens to your playing via the computer microphone. Students even see correctly played notes in melodies highlighted as they play them
• Easy guitar lessons for beginners teach you how to read guitar tabs (tablature), easy chords and guitar notes (music notation)
• Over 70 songs, including hits made famous by Bob Dylan, Steve Miller, the Rolling Stones and others to make guitar lessons fun!
• Songs and exercises appear as both audio and MIDI tracks that can be looped, slowed down or sped up

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 Quizzes utilize eMedia's 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! eMedia's 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.

Song Highlighting and Looping
Song looping lets you highlight and repeat any section of music you wish to practice. Slow the music down with variable-speed MIDI tracks!

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 for you as the music plays. It allows you to see exactly how to play the song on a simulated guitar fretboard as you listen to the music and the music tracking highlights the notes being played on the screen. 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!

Automatic 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.

Digital Metronome
Set your own speed and keep a steady beat.

Digital Recorder
Save your recordings and play back to share and compare