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eMedia Blues Guitar Legends
Win/Mac CD-ROM
$29.95
"Awesome 
(4 stars out of 4)"
– Jonathan Silver, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The best guitar instructional piece I’ve ever seen."
– Brian Kiernan, Blues Access
Overview
eMedia Blues Guitar Legends is the ultimate way to learn how to play classic blues songs from the masters' original recordings! Music notation is highlighted as songs play, while an animated guitar fretboard displays fingerings in real-time. You don't even have to read music to follow along. Blues Guitar Legends includes 10 classic blues recordings, including Stevie Ray Vaughan's Crossfire, John Lee Hooker's Boogie Chillen, Muddy Waters' Hoochie Coochie Man, Robert Cray's Smoking Gun and B.B. King's The Thrill is Gone, and more! This CD-ROM includes variable-speed MIDI tracks, simplified chord versions ideal for beginners, full note-for-note transcriptions, and biographical material. As an extra feature– you can play the 10 audio tracks on a standard CD player!
Features
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10 Classic |
Blues Guitar Legends can be enjoyed by guitar players of all skill levels. Learn how to play classic blues songs from the masters themselves! Simplified chord versions of the songs are ideal for beginners, while experienced players can learn note-for-note from the full transcriptions of both lead and rhythm parts. The animated fretboard shows you the fingerings in real-time, so you don't need to read music. Original recordings and variable-speed MIDI tracks let you learn at the tempo you choose. Looping lets you select and repeat tricky sections of a song. |
"Smoking Gun"Full Notation Chord Notation |
Ten Original Artist Recordings!
Two Levels of Notation Learn to play the song "note-for-note" or choose the simplified "chord-only" version for beginners! Additional MIDI tracks for each version allow you to adjust song tempo to your skill level. Looping feature allows you to highlight and play only a selected portion of the song. |
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Playing Tips Instructional material presents the chords and tips needed to master the song and also helps you emulate the tone and technique of the blues guitar greats. |
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Artist Biographies and Photos Gain insights into the lives of the legends. |
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Animated Fretboard Watch the fretboard come alive with real-time display of notes, including bends, vibrato and slides! Includes both right- and left-handed views from both the perspective of looking down at your guitar and across at an instructor's guitar. |
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Automatic Tuner Visually tune your electric or acoustic guitar by playing into a computer microphone. Includes custom tunings for specific songs when needed. Also provides audio reference notes for each string. |
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Metronome Allows you to set your own tempo and work on your picking speed, rhythm and timing. Provides both visual cue and/or audio tick. Full range of tempi, from largo to presto. |
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Recorder Record and play yourself back! This feature allows you to compare your recordings with the originals, fine tune your skills and store musical ideas. |
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Plays as Audio CD As an enhanced CD-ROM, the Blues Guitar Legends compilation can be played either on an audio CD player or on your computer. |
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Reviews
What reviewers are saying...
"eMedia’s latest guitar course lets you follow in the frets of Robert Cray, B.B. King, and The Allman Brothers Band... with 10 recordings ready to be speeded up, slowed down, looped, and eventually mastered."
– Dave Ross, CBS Radio Network's "Chip Talk"
[ Listen to Dave's review ] (Used by permission. Not for re-broadcast or posting to any other website.)
"eMedia has gone a step further, turning home computers into interactive guitar learning tools... aimed at what counts: getting you playing." "Original recordings... MIDI versions of each guitar part... Song looping, for intensive study of difficult sections... [ and ] a fairly incredible 'animated fretboard'."
– Tom Hyslop, Blues Revue
"eMedia has some of the coolest software to help budding fretmasters learn their trade...When eMedia states on their box that this is 'the easiest way to learn Blues Classics,' they're not kidding...this is the easiest program that I have found yet to learn my favorite tunes."
– KAOS2000 Magazine
"Hey, they've finally figured it out!...[ Blues Guitar Legends ] is probably the best guitar instructional piece I’ve ever seen."
– "Big Daddy" Brian Kiernan, Blues Access
"Freakin' Awesome!" "The fun you’ll have with eMedia’s Blues Guitar Legends might chase the blues away as it teaches you to play some of its greatest hits."
– Narasu Rebbapragada, Mac Addict
"For guitar players who want to improve or guitar hopefuls who want to learn the basics... Blues Guitar Legends is hundreds of dollars worth of guitar lessons for only $29.95" "Best of all, it’s a lot of fun."
– Michael Thelin, TechTV
"Perfect for someone who wants to learn, listen and enjoy."
– The Dallas Morning News
"I used to fret over frets... Now we can all strum and hum like several of the blues greatest artists with (eMedia’s) new release, Blues Guitar Legends."
– Mike Berman, Scripps Howard News Service
"Everyone knows someone who's into the guitar and if they are on your gift list, consider eMedia’s Blues Guitar Legends."
– Computer Source
"[ Blues Guitar Legends ] shows you both lead and rhythm parts, and you might actually pick up a few tricks or licks if you're paying attention... ultimately, everybody learns from studying and imitating his heroes."
– John Strausbaugh, New York Press
Requirements
System Requirements
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Windows®: Windows 98/NT/2000/Me/XP 16 MB of free RAM, 19 MB of free hard disk space PC soundcard, CD-ROM |
Macintosh®: Power PC (or faster), Intel OK Mac OS 9.0+ or Mac OS X 10.1 or later 16 MB of free RAM, 18MB of free hard disk space CD-ROM |
Questions about system requirements? Contact our technical support department.
Demo
Product Demo
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eMedia Blues Guitar Legends interactive/walkthrough demo thoroughly explores all the features of this breakthrough new CD-ROM. Along with the narrated slideshow, you can break into the demo and try out separate song lessons. Enjoy! Regardless of platform, you will need Apple's QuickTime™ player to run the Blues Guitar Legends demo, if it is not already installed on your system. Download the Windows version (6.6 MB) To download the Windows Guitar Method Volume 1 demo, click on the link above and follow the instructions given. After downloading, run "GM1Demo.exe", and follow the instructions of the Setup program. Download the Macintosh (OS 9) version (4.72 MB) To download the Macintosh Blues Guitar Legends demo, click on the link above and save it to your hard disk, then expand the self-extracting "macblues.sit.Bin" archive by double-clicking on it. You may need to download and install Stuffit Expander. PLEASE NOTE: The Mac demo for Blues Guitar Legends is only available for Mac OS 9. It will be availble for Mac OS X at a later date. If you have a Mac running OS X, you will have to run the demo in "Classic" mode. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may experience while we update our demonstration software. Rest assured that Blues Guitar Legends (the actual software) runs natively in Mac OS X without a problem. |
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