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 170 lessons with full-motion video, variable-speed MIDI, recorded audio, and our 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 Scale Directory chapter provides fingerings, recordings and variable-speed MIDI for over 200 scales! Also included are software accessories such as our Automatic Tuner, Digital Metronome, Recorder and 1000-Chord Dictionary featuring audio playback. Now with Interactive Feedback as you play melodies, remastered audio and videos, and full-screen lessons!

Note: Intermediate Guitar Method was previously titled Guitar Method Vol. 2.

Also available in a special 2 CD-ROM set as eMedia Guitar Method Deluxe and
as a 4 CD-ROM set, eMedia Guitar Collection!

Features

(Click image to enlarge)	Interactive Feedback on Your Playing! Interactive Feedback shows you when you play the correct notes on your guitar as you progress through an exercise. With a microphone connected to your computer and a guitar in your hands, play the notes in the exercise (or song) on any screen featuring the “ear” icon in the upper right corner and the computer will highlight the notes for you in green. As you reach your goals of getting all notes to change color in each exercise, you’ll discover that reading tablature and music notation is easier than you ever thought possible!
(Click image to enlarge)	Note and Finger Tracker! The Note Tracker and Finger Tracker tools help you see more easily what note you’re playing by displaying the note as music notation and on an animated fretboard. You’ll be able to correct your playing quickly and learn to read music fast!
Table of Contents (Click images to enlarge) Play Hit Songs	Over 170 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. As with Guitar Method, your instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., provides clear and friendly instruction. eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method features songs in a variety of genres to make learning fun and memorable – including Rock, Blues, Folk, Country, and Classical! Our latest version includes dynamic, enhanced, multi-track audio playback of hit songs popularized by well-known artists, such as: “All Along the Watchtower” – made famous by Bob Dylan “All Along the Watchtower” – rock version made famous by Jimi Hendrix “Spoonful” – made famous by Eric Clapton, Willie Dixon, and The Rolling Stones “Jet Airliner” – The Steve Miller Band “Drive On” – Johnny Cash “Time in a Bottle” – Jim Croce “Für Elise” – Ludwig van Beethoven “Malagueña” – Ernesto Lecuona “Touch of Grey” – The Grateful Dead “I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home” – Grand Funk Railroad “Too Much to Lose” – made famous by Jeff Beck “Sloop John B” – made famous by The Beach Boys. and many more!
(Click image to enlarge)	Over 30 Large-Format Videos Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you in over 30 videos with demonstrations of techniques – now larger, with enhanced quality! You can even view them in full-screen mode if you want to.
Standard Music Notation: (Click images to enlarge) Guitar Tablature:	Music Notation Display Options Learn via guitar tablature or standard music notation through this easily accessible menu option.
	Music Tracking Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they’re heard makes it easy to follow along on guitar.
	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!
(Click image to enlarge)	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.
(Click image to enlarge)	Music Theory An interactive Circle of Fifths helps teach music theory and is linked to scales in the Scale Directory chapter. Intervals, chord construction, the basics of improvisation, and modes are also covered in Intermediate Guitar Method.
(Click images to enlarge)	Animated Fretboard Watch the fretboard come alive with real-time display of notes, including bends, vibrato, and slides! It displays fingering positions for you as the music plays. This allows you to see exactly how to play the song on a simulated guitar fretboard as you listen to the music and the music tracking highlights the notes. Since you can highlight and loop any section of the music (or even double-click on a single note in the music), you can use the Animated Fretboard to make difficult sections or quick changes easier to manage and learn. The Animated Fretboard makes it simple to follow along with the lesson content. Includes option for both right- and left-handed views, and, just for fun, choose from six different fretboard skins modeled after classic guitars!
(Click image to enlarge)	Automatic Tuner Tune your guitar quickly and easily. A precision gauge allows you to play into your computer’s microphone and tune up interactively. Reference tuning notes are included.
(Click image to enlarge)	Chord Dictionary Includes fingering charts and recorded sounds for over 1000 chords! Easy access helps you learn songs with new chords quickly. The Chord Dictionary is an indispensable reference tool.
(Click image to enlarge)	Digital Metronome Set your own speed and keep a steady beat.
	Digital Recorder Save your recordings and play back to share and compare.
An Educational Edition of Intermediate Guitar Method is also available. Please contact our Educational Sales Department for details. Remember to ask about lab packs!

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Contents

Contents summary

Introduction
Contents; review of basics including tablature, music notation and notes on the fretboard.

I. Melodic Guitar – Left-Hand Techniques
Hammer-ons, pull-offs, triplet slurs, trills, vibrato, slides and bends introduced in riffs and songs such as “Crawdad Hole,” “Jesu,” “Largo,” “Scarborough Fair,” “House of the Rising Sun” and 12-bar blues solo.

II. Rhythm Guitar – Barre Chords
E-shape and A-shape barre chords; chord progressions; interactive chord charts for all positions, barre chord excerpts for “Midnight Special,” “Watchtower” and “Touch of Grey;” chord charts; symbols.

III. Strumming Styles – Folk, Country, Blues & Rock
Bass-strum techniques; shuffle rhythm; palm muting; songs including “All Along the Watchtower,” “Drive On,” “Touch of Grey,” “Jet Airliner,” “I’m Your Captain,” “Sloop John B.”

IV. Using Scales and Building Chords
Intervals; scales (major, minor, blues, country, rock and other); chord construction (triads, seventh, extended and altered chords); circle of fifths; improvisation basics.

V. Guitar Solos
“Spoonful” (Dixon- and Clapton-style); “Touch of Grey” (Garcia); “Too Much to Lose” (Jeff Beck); “All Along the Watchtower” (Hendrix-style).

VI. Fingerstyle Guitar
Travis and arpeggio style; picking variations; harmonics; songs including “Dreamboat Annie,” “Time in a Bottle,” 12-bar blues, “Greensleeves,” “Für Elise,” “Malagueña,” “Romanza.”

Scale Directory
Major, natural minor, blues, major pentatonic (country), minor pentatonic (rock) in open and closed (movable) fingerings.

Appendix
Button symbols; program commands; tuner; chord dictionary; recorder; metronome; etc.

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

" — 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

From survey responses, our customers rate this product:

4.6 out of 5.0, based upon 54 survey responses.

What our customers are saying...

"I rate it 5/5 stars. Would recommend it to anyone looking to improve their playing. The reason I play in the first place is because of the beginner method."

– Colin H. of Boynton Beach, FL

"It’s really a pleasure to learn playing guitar with this method."

– Jacques Szymanski of France

"I like it because it is easy since it has a good methodology; I mean the step by step teaching makes the learning process easy to follow and enjoy. I tried other methods, and I think this is the best."

– Ernesto Veliz of Houston, TX

"I love the Intermediate eMedia disk. It provides me with hours of enjoyment, and I’m learning such great stuff. Keep them coming!"

– Barbara Rosa of Edmonton, AB

"Easy to follow lessons, very good!"

– Noah Smith

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Requirements

System requirements

(Internet connection recommended for online activation.)

Questions about system requirements? Contact our technical support department.

Academic Version

Educational Edition

Please visit the Academic Product Page for more information on using this product in schools and for private or group instruction.

Upgrade

Upgrade to Version 3.0 from any previous version of the software

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