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eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method
Win/Mac CD-ROM
$59.95
"I used to teach guitar, and eMedia Guitar Method is the greatest
because it centers around playing songs. And if it’s not about
playing songs, what's it about?"
– Nancy Wilson, guitarist/vocalist of Heart
Overview
Learn to play lead guitar and more with eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method! Everything you need to take your playing beyond basic chords and melodies. New techniques are demonstrated in over 175 lessons with full-motion video, variable-speed MIDI, recorded audio and an animated fretboard. You’ll learn to play solos like the ones Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix made famous, using newly acquired lead guitar skills. You’ll also find rhythm and fingerstyle chapters, plus lessons on the basics of improvisation. The new scale directory provides fingerings, recordings and variable-speed MIDI for over 200 scales. Additional accessories include an automatic tuner, digital metronome, recorder and 1000-chord dictionary with audio playback.
Note: Intermediate Guitar Method was previously titled "Guitar Method Volume 2".
Features
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50+ Songs!
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eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method features over 50 songs including...
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Table of Contents (Click image to enlarge) |
175 Step-by-Step Lessons You’ll learn to play solos like the ones Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix made famous, using newly acquired skills such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, vibrato and slides. Barre chords and different strumming styles are covered in the rhythm chapters, and there's a fingerstyle chapter as well. Intervals, scales and the basics of improvisation are also covered in this comprehensive volume. |
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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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Full Motion Video Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you in over 30 videos with demonstrations of techniques. |
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Guitar Tablature: (Click images to enlarge) Standard Music Notation: |
Music Notation Display Options Learn via guitar tablature or standard music notation through this easily accessible menu option. Audio Tracking Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they're heard makes it easy to follow along on guitar. |
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Variable-speed MIDI Slows down the audio to any tempo, while the Animated Fretboard shows song fingering as the music plays. Learn at the pace best suited to your skill level! |
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Scale Directory Fingerings, recordings and variable-speed MIDI for over 150 scales make practicing and learning new scales easy. When scales are introduced in the lesson material, they are followed by sample songs applying those scales, making the learning experience practical and fun. |
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Music Theory An interactive circle of fifths helps teach music theory and is linked to scales in the scale directory. Intervals, chord construction, the basics of improvisation, and modes are also covered in Intermediate Guitar Method. |
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Automatic Tuner Tune your guitar quickly and easily. A precision gauge allows you to play into your computer's microphone and immediately get feedback to see if you're too high or too low. Full audio reference notes also provided. |
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Chord Dictionary Includes fingering charts and recorded sounds for over 1000 chords! Easy access helps you learn songs with new chords quickly. An indispensable reference tool. |
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Digital 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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Digital Recorder Record and play yourself back! This feature allows you to compare your recordings with the instructor's version, fine tune your skills and store musical ideas. |
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An Educational Edition of Intermediate Guitar Method is also available. Please contact our Educational Sales Department for details. Don’t forget to ask about lab packs! |
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Reviews
What reviewers are saying...
"You’ll be strumming, trilling and playing solos in no time with eMedia Guitar Method 2 [now called Intermediate Guitar Method]."
– Windows Magazine (Product of the Month)
"For guitarists who want to improve but who don't want to enroll in hair guitar school, this intermediate, interactive CD-ROM [Intermediate Guitar Method] is a great way to learn guitar independently at your own speed."
– Musician Magazine
"The eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method is an extremely comprehensive tutorial... it’s rare to see someone use the level of foresight and planning that eMedia has on here."
– Ink 19 Magazine
"(Either disc) could keep a budding Eric Clapton or Chet Atkins busy for many months, which is more than can be said for most computer games on the market these days."
– Halifax Herald
and regarding Guitar Method...
"This is the ultimate way to learn how to play guitar! You learn at your own pace and it’s easy for anybody."
– Peter Frampton, guitar superstar
4 "Picks"
– PC Magazine
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— Check out eMedia’s Guitar Method CD-ROM. More than just music... my favorite feature is the built-in 'tape recorder' which allows you to record your performance and replay it. Ideal instruction for beginners."
– Toronto Sun
"Our biggest praise: Guitar Method, while teaching traditional theory, focuses on making learning simple and on letting students play 'real' songs quickly." "Its price is the cost of one traditional lesson. At that price, you can't go wrong."
– EmergingStrategies.com review
"An instructional title worth pickin’
– Billboard Magazine
"I’ve been playing guitar for 35 years, and this is the best beginning program that anyone wanting to play guitar could own."
– Greg Heigh, WWBA Radio (Tampa, FL)
"For those who not only want to appreciate an art form but take part in it..."
– Consumer's Digest
"Before you know it, you’ll be an international star."
– Discovery Channel
"You could spend a lot more on guitar lessons, an electronic tuner, a chord book and a metronome, and still not get as much as you might out of this CD-ROM."
– Boston Globe
"One of the best music tutorials I’ve seen... Guitar Method can help you become an accomplished journeyman guitarist."
– C/NET
Requirements
System Requirements
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Windows: Windows 98/NT/2000/Me/XP/Vista CD-ROM drive, sound card, 256+ color display 16 MB of free RAM, 31 MB of free disk space |
Macintosh: Power PC (or faster), Intel OK Mac OS 9.0+ or Mac OS X 10.1+ CD-ROM drive, 256+ color display 16 MB of free RAM, 18MB of free disk space |
Questions about system requirements? Contact our technical support department.
Demo
Product Demo
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eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method 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 Intermediate Guitar Method demo, if it is not already installed on your system. Download the Windows demo (7.5 MB) To download the Windows Intermediate Guitar Method demo, click on the link above and follow the instructions given. After downloading, run "IGMDemo.exe", and follow the instructions of the Setup program. Download the Macintosh demo (8.0 MB) To download the Macintosh Intermediate Guitar Method demo, click on the link above and save it to your hard disk, then expand the self-extracting "IGMDemo.sit" archive by double-clicking on it. Mac OS X Users: Download the Intermediate Guitar Method demo movie (17.1 MB) Intermediate Guitar Method software is fully compatible with Mac OS X. For demonstration purposes, however, we ask that you download the above movie until we are able to create an OS X-compatible demonstration program. |
Buy it now! - only $59.95Academic Version
Educator Edition
The eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method Educator Edition includes all the features and content of the consumer version of Intermediate Guitar Method. Discounted multi-station lab packs and site licenses are also available.
eMedia Guitar Method Teacher’s Guide (PDF)
For more information about the Educator Edition of eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method, please contact our Educational Sales Department.
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