eMedia Rock Guitar For Dummies Software with 70+ Beginning Lessons for Windows, Electronic Download
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About eMedia Rock Guitar for Dummies
Just starting your journey into the world of rock guitar The Rock Guitar For Dummies Software is your perfect companion, offering a comprehensive, interactive, and easy-to-use platform for beginners. This innovative software, designed for Windows, provides over 70 step-by-step lessons crafted by Charles McCrone, a distinguished graduate of the Guitar Institute of Technology at Musician's Institute.
This software is not just about learning chords and riffs, it's about immersing yourself in the rock genre. It covers a wide range of techniques essential for rock, punk, and metal styles, including power chords, bar chords (barre chords), and the use of effects pedals. You'll also delve into the blues scale, learn how to read guitar tabs, and explore the use of feedback and the whammy bar.
But what's learning without some fun The Rock Guitar For Dummies Software features hit songs from iconic bands like The Kinks, Green Day, Blue Oyster Cult, and Nirvana, making your practice sessions enjoyable and engaging. You'll be playing along to songs found in popular games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band in no time.
The software's interactive features are designed to enhance your learning experience. The Animated Fretboard displays fingering positions as the music plays, allowing you to follow along easily. The Instant Feedback feature shows you when you're hitting the right notes, helping you correct your playing in real-time.
Additional tools include an automatic tuner for easy guitar tuning, a chord dictionary with over 250 chords, a digital metronome to help you keep a steady beat, and a digital recorder to save and compare your recordings.
Whether you're a left-handed or right-handed player, the Rock Guitar For Dummies Software is adaptable to your needs. With this electronic download, you can start your rock guitar journey anytime, anywhere. Learn at your own pace, and soon, you'll be playing those rock chords, riffs, and songs like a pro.
eMedia Rock Guitar for Dummies Features
- More than 30 videos, with close-up and split-screen views of both hands, to see the techniques needed to learn how to play guitar.
- Rhythm guitar lessons with rock chords like power chords (both open and moveable power chords), bar chords (barre chords), strumming patterns, palm muting and other techniques
- Lead guitar lessons that teach string bends, pull-ons, hammer-ons and riffs plus how to play the blues scale
- eMedia's Animated Fretboard to show guitar fingerings
- A tutorial on how to read guitar tabs
- Jam Tracks to provide a backing band in select guitar lessons to make learning fun
- Learn the blues scale and then practice lead guitar with a band!
- Hit guitar songs like "Don't Fear the Reaper" (Blue Oyster Cult), "You Really Got Me" (Van Halen/The Kinks) and more!
- Guitar lessons and songs as both audio and MIDI tracks where selections can be looped, slowed or sped up
- Finger Tracker technology that displays the notes you're playing on the Animated Fretboard as the guitar software listens to your playing via the computer microphone
- Integrated guitar software tools with an automatic guitar tuner, chord chart/dictionary, fingering charts and metronome