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eMedia Teach Yourself Electric Guitar Pack

Electric Guitar and Amplifier plus Win/Mac CD-ROM

$199.95   

PLAY GUITAR FOR REAL

Over 100 Lessons will get you playing rock guitar fast!

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Overview

With the eMedia Teach Yourself Electric Guitar Pack, you can now learn to Play Guitar for Real! It comes with a durable, awesome-looking, solid wood electric guitar with a maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. This classic, black, electric guitar comes with chrome tuners, 3 single coil pickups, 3 controls and a 5-way selector to get all the great classic rock sounds. It comes with a full suite of accessories including gig bag, cable, whammy bar, strap, guitar pick, adjustment tools and a loud, 3-watt, battery-powered practice amplifier with overdrive, headphone jack and strap. What’s more, it comes with a built-in teacher, the hugely popular and effective eMedia Guitar Master CD-ROM and a bonus eMedia Essential Rock Guitar DVD!

Note: This product normally ships only to street addresses, but shipping to a post office box is possible with an increased shipping cost. Call (888) 363-3424 to make arrangements.

Features

Your eMedia Essential Guitar Pack includes:

  • Solid hardwood electric guitar
  • Killer practice amp
  • 1/4" instrument cable
  • Gig bag
  • Guitar strap
  • Extra set of strings
  • Guitar pick
  • eMedia Guitar Master CD-ROM with over 100 rock guitar lessons!
  • bonus eMedia Essential Rock Guitar DVD!
guitar pack contents
guitar from different angles

Learn Rock, Metal or Punk Guitar!

eMedia Guitar Master makes learning quick and easy with over 100 audio- and video-enhanced guitar lessons and rock gear tips. You can start from scratch, and our revolutionary teaching style will have you playing songs, chords and riffs within minutes! Instructor Charles McCrone, a graduate of the cutting-edge Guitar Institute of Technology, with over 25 years of playing and teaching experience, takes you through all the techniques needed to play rock, punk and metal. These include movable power chords, barre chords, effects pedals, yanks, hammer-ons, pull-offs, palm muting, distorted riffs, the blues scale, using feedback, the whammy bar and more! Guitar Master is hosted by Steve Rock (KISW “Metal Shop”).

Table of Contents
Contents screen
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Contents screen

114 Step-by-Step Lessons

The eMedia Guitar Master CD-ROM makes learning quick and easy with over 100 audio- and video-enhanced guitar lessons. Our revolutionary teaching style has you playing songs, chords and riffs within minutes — no previous experience required. The gear tips will help keep you playing all night long!

Hit songs include:

  • “Paranoid” by Black Sabbath
  • “You Really Got Me” as by Van Halen
  • “Lake of Fire” by Nirvana
  • “Tired of Waiting for You” as by Green Day
  • “All Day and All of the Night” by the Kinks
  • “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Öyster Cult
  • “Tomorrow” by Silverchair
  • “All Right Now” by Free
  • ... and many more!

Also includes songs in the style of Blink 182, Rage Against the Machine, AC/DC and many more!

Animated Fretboard
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Animated Fretboard

Displays fingering positions as the music plays. Also shows fingering for any chord or note you double-click. Features right-handed, left-handed and mirror views.

split screen video
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Video Instruction

In over 50 full-motion videos, host Steve Rock demonstrates techniques. Split-screen videos provide close-ups as needed.

Pop-Punk Progression Screen
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Audio Buttons

Audio Tracking

Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they’re heard makes it easy to follow along on the bass.


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!

Tuner
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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.

Chord Dictionary
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Chord Dictionary

Includes fingering charts and recorded sounds for over 250 chords. Easy access helps you learn songs with new chords quickly. An indispensable reference tool!

Metronome
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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.

Recorder

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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Reviews

What reviewers are saying about eMedia Guitar Master software...

Editor's Choice - Computer Times

EDITOR’S CHOICE 2008

"eMedia Guitar Master provides all the assistance you can possibly imagine, or desire, to make your guitar mastering journey as easy as possible."

– Terry Kibiloski, Computer Times

"eMedia’s Guitar Master is a hit. It gets 5 out of 5 stars!"

– Tim Irvin, Pickstoke.com

"Quality multimedia instructional content that is worth paying for."

– Jon Chappell, Harmony Central


Guitar Master is an upgrade from Rock Guitar Method.
Here’s what reviewers have said about Rock Guitar Method...

"A Fun Way to Get Rocking."

Guitar World

"This is one box it’s OK to get stuck inside"

Guitar One Magazine

"Keeps any would-be rocker more interested and motivated than other teaching aids that, by comparison, come off as tedious."

– Barry Rudolph, Music Connection

"No wonder eMedia’s the world’s best-seller"

Hit Parader

"Rock Guitar Method is a superior product that helps beginners and intermediates to become better rock guitarists. 5 out of 5 Rating"

– John Nemerovski, MyMac.com

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Requirements

System Requirements

Windows®:
Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7
CD-ROM for software, DVD player for DVD
Macintosh®:
Power PC (or faster), Intel OK
Mac OS X 10.1 or later
CD-ROM for software, DVD player for DVD

Questions about system requirements? Contact our technical support department.