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eMedia GuitarPro 5.1 Win/Mac

eMedia's Guitar Pro 5.1 is the most powerful and intuitive tablature editor on the market. This multitrack tablature editor/player for guitar, banjo and bass. The advanced notation features add drum notation, vocal notation and tablature support for any stringed instruments with four to seven strings! You can create complete scores for a band in minutes. Improved ASCII import/export and the newly enhanced speed trainer will show you why eMedia Guitar Pro 5.1 is the dominant force in guitar music on the web. Use the Chord Generator as a reference, or to easily add chord diagrams to the score Create a chord diagram by clicking on the grid -- eMedia Guitar Pro 5 will give you all the corresponding names

Estéban's Complete Guitar Course For Beginners

Esteban studied under celebrated guitar master Andres Segovia, performed thousands of concerts, and topped the Billboard charts. More than just a top-seller on the Home Shopping Network, Esteban has become a cultural phenomenon-appearing in the pages of People, The Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as on The Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, and even in his own Geico commercial. In this informative and entertaining course that has already been a hit with students everywhere, Esteban teaches beginners everything they need to know: hand positioning, tuning, chord fingerings, reading music and tablature, using a pick, improvising, and much more. With two DVDs, an easy-to-follow course book, and a chord chart, Esteban will have you playing "Greensleeves" to "Malagueña" to "House of the Rising Sun" in no time-and having fun while you're doing it!

USB Teach Me Piano Kit

With the USB Teach Me Piano Kit, you'll have the power to play songs on your music keyboard, then mix and edit them on your PC. Connecting has never been easier using the Plug-N-Play capabilities and convenience ofUSB. Start by connecting a music keyboard to your computer with the supplied USB MIDI cable. Within minutes you'll be able to play songs while they are being recorded on your PC! You can overdub additional instruments, then edit, mix and even print sheet music of your final compositions.

Ask Video Reason 4.0 DVD Tutorial

Over 5 hours of instruction on Propellerhead's Reason version 4 by Morgan Pottruff, aka Morg (author of the Live and Melodyne Tutorial DVD). Reason version 4 is a virtual studio rack rebuilt from the ground up with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. Morg will show you all the new features - a brand new sequencer, a revolutionary groove tool, a stunning arpeggiator and Thor, the synths to end all synths. This DVD is packed with detail not seen before. If you want to get your head around Reason quickly then you'll want to watch this DVD! Morg shows you Reason in some incredible ways through the extra 'Tips and Tricks' sections that really show off the power under the hood.

eMedia Piano and Keyboard Method Volume 1

Piano And Keyboard Method is a powerful and original new approach to building music skills! Interactive lessons and multimedia exercises combine for a clear and easy-to-use learning method!

eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method Win/Mac

With its latest package, eMedia goes beyond the drills and tutorials of its earlier eMedia Guitar Method, instead targeting players who already have a familiarity with their instrument. Song-based and fully interactive, eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method covers a lot of ground in its single CD and thus just skims the surface of some topics. It also seems a bit lackluster when compared to Voyetra's exciting, rock and roll-inspired Teach Me Guitar Deluxe. Nevertheless, the program offers a barrage of mid-level and advanced chording, soloing, and picking techniques that should assist any student who seeks to become a more knowledgeable and skillful guitarist.

Divided into six categories--left-hand techniques, barre chords, strumming styles, scales, solos, and fingerstyle guitar--the program delivers no less than 175 individual lessons and 41 appendices featuring most every popular musical scale in both open and closed fingering patterns, and a handy virtual chord dictionary. Most lessons allow you to adjust the speed of the music to suit your personal preference and loop certain sections for repetitive replay. Several sessions also offer optional narratives and video, though the narratives are too abbreviated to be truly informative and the video snippets, where veteran instructor Kevin Garry offers personal advice on certain techniques, are equally condensed and confined to a small window.

eMedia has provided several additional perks to make your job a bit easier, including an integrated metronome to help keep the beat, an optional tablature display for those who can't read musical notation, and an animated fretboard that graphically demonstrates each lesson's fingering positions in both left- and right-handed formats. The program's tuner isn't quite so impressive, behaving just as erratically as most computer tuners, and certainly not a replacement for a handheld digital or quartz unit. A small but serviceable audio recorder allows you to build a library of your own efforts and even jam along with self-penned arrangements.

The program concerns itself more with clean and semi-clean acoustic and electric guitar rather than heavily distorted hard rock. A valuable but curious assortment of songs dominates its many lessons, in particular Grand Funk Railroad's mysterious "I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home," The Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey," and Jim Croce's exquisite "Time in a Bottle." Several complex classical pieces end the proceedings, culminating in the celebrated but extremely demanding arpeggio masterpiece "Romanza." It should be noted that although none of the selections are original recordings, all are capably translated and played.

Although eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method isn't especially high-spirited, it does offer a deluge of material that will ultimately benefit any guitarist with the talent and the drive to successfully take it on. With a ton of challenging musical passages and cool licks, some nifty utilities, and plenty of guitar exploration, it is recommended to novice players with virtuoso desires. --Gordon Goble

eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method is an easy way to take your guitar playing beyond basic chords and melodies. New techniques are demonstrated in over 175 lessons with full-motion video, sound, and an animated fretboard. 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. You can choose to learn using either tablature or standard music notation. Intervals, scales, and the basics of improvisation are also covered in this comprehensive volume.

eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method includes an animated fretboard that displays the fingering for each song and exercise in real time and is adjustable to four different viewing angles. Included are over 50 songs recorded in multitrack audio, which makes learning and listening to hit songs exciting. Also available is a variable-speed MIDI track option, allowing students to practice any song or exercise at the tempo they choose. The new scale directory provides fingerings, recordings, and variable-speed MIDI for over 200 scales, making practicing and learning new scales easy. Additional features include a built-in automatic tuner, digital metronome, recorder, and 1,000-chord dictionary with audio playback.

Intermediate Guitar Method features many hit songs by artists such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, the Steve Miller Band, Johnny Cash, and Jim Croce.

eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method is the easiest way to take your playing beyond basic chords and melodies. New techniques are demonstrated in over 175 lessons with full-motion video, sound and an animated fretboard. 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. You can choose to learn using either tablature or standard music notation. Intervals, scales and the basics of improvisation are also covered in this comprehensive volume. Everything You Need to Reach the Next Level! eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method includes an animated fretboard, which displays the fingering for each song and exercise in real-time and is adjustable to four different viewing angles. There are over 50 songs recorded in multi-track audio which makes learning and listening to hit songs exciting. Also available is a variable-speed MIDI track option, allowing students to practice any song or exercise at whatever tempo they want. The new scale directory provides fingerings, recordings and variable-speed MIDI for over 200 scales, making practicing and learning new scales easy. Additional accessories include a built-in automatic tuner, digital metronome, recorder and 1000-chord dictionary with audio playback. "The ultimate way to learn how to play guitar...

Line 6 GuitarPort XT

GuitarPort 2.5 gives you the ability to learn with all the same toys and tools that monster guitarists use. All you have to do is connect the red GuitarPort hardware to your Windows PC with the included USBcable, then connect GuitarPort's stereo output to multimedia speakers, headphones or your stereo. Now you're all set to jam along with hundreds of songs and guitar lessons that you download from the Internet. Built-in chromatic tuner Includes metronome for practicing

Ask Video Live 6 Tutorial DVD for PC and Mac

With years of live performance experience under his belt, musician, songwriter, producer and Live expert Morgan Pottruff explains in a step by step, easy to follow style, how to get the most out of Live. 40 videos and over 3 hours of instruction on Ableton Live by Morgan Pottruff, aka Morg, veteran international performer, producer and remixer. Morg has used Live for everything from electronic-classical to techno since version 1.

Learn To Play Drums

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Genre: How To - Musical Instruction
Rating: NR
Release Date: 13-JAN-2003
Media Type: DVD

The Ring Disc: An Interactive Guide to Wagners Ring Cycle (Solti, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)

Richard Wagner's entire "Ring of the Nibelungen" on one CD-ROM. The definitive Vienna Philharmonic recording, Sir Georg Solti conducting.

* Complete piano-vocal score, German libretto with English translation, and running commentary-all synchronized to the music.

* All 14.5 hours of pristine digitized sound captured by The Media Café's new audio compression technology.

* More than one hundred original essays with detailed explanations.

* Extensive full-color image database from contemporary and historical sources.

* Comprehensive analysis of all the leitmotifs along with hypertext links to specific musical occurrences.

* Search functions instantaneously isolate and index individual leitmotif, characters, and musical examples throughout the entire cycle.

One disc with 14.5 hours of pristine digitized sound.

Computer Requirements:
Pentium Processor PC
Windows 95 or Windows NT
8MB Ram
4xCD-ROM Drive
800x600 Screen Resolution with 16 bit color