12 best emedia guitar dvds

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In the media My Guitar DVD, an animated character named Gary the Guitar leads kids through 60 lessons by Kevin Garry, Ph.D. My Guitar covers the basics such as tuning your guitar and learning chords, and moves on to reading music, playing songs and much more. media's Animated Fretboard shows you where to put your fingers as the live recorded audio plays. Special features such as our Automatic Tuner, Metronome, Chord Dictionary, and Digital Recorder are available as separate Windows/Mac software downloads to registered customers. Research has proven that children who play an instrument do better in school, make friends more easily, are more creative, learn self-discipline and gain self-confidence. media My Guitar is the perfect way to introduce children to playing guitar!

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eMedia Essential Rock Guitar's 45 easy-to-follow lessons range from basics such as stringing and tuning your electric guitar to playing power chords and lead licks. The lessons were developed by professional rock guitar instructor Charles McCrone, a graduate of the cutting edge Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT), whose more than 25 years of teaching experience will get you rocking in no time. The eMedia Essential Rock Guitar DVD offers interactive guitar lessons featuring an animated fretboard with right and left-handed views, split-screen video with close-ups, a song-based curriculum, English and Spanish instruction, tuner, interactive chord charts, music tracking, and live performance audio. Bonus Downloadable Toolkit includes: Automatic Tuner Chord Dictionary Metronome Recorder - a $4.95 value!

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eMedia Essential Acoustic Guitar's 45 easy-to-follow lessons range from basics such as stringing and tuning your guitar to playing chords and strumming techniques. Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you with video demonstrations of techniques. With these song-based lessons, learning to play acoustic guitar is fun and easy!

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eMedia Essential Bass Guitar's 34 easy-to-follow lessons range from basics such as stringing and tuning your bass to major scales and creating bass lines. Professional bass instructor John Arbo guides you with video demonstrations of techniques. With these song-based lessons, learning the bass is fun and easy!

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• eMedia Bass Guitar For Dummies is a fun and easy way to learn bass quickly, with instant feedback to help you progress through each exercise.
• Over 70 easy-to-follow lessons from professional bassist and instructor John Arbo from the New School in New York City with techniques demonstrated in 30 helpful videos, viewable full-screen.
• eMedia’s Animated Fretboard displays fingering positions as the music plays, making it easy to follow along.
• Includes convenient practice tools such as an eMedia’s Automatic Bass Tuner, Metronome, Recorder, and Guitar Chord Reference.
• The Note Tracker and Finger Tracker tools show you the note you're playing in music notation and on a virtual fretboard.

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An Exceptional Value on Bass Lessons

Now you can learn bass the fast and easy way with a great combination of 'For Dummies' fun and eMedia interactive music technologies. Accomplished bassist and teacher John Arbo takes you through a complete bass tutorial with over 70 bass lessons that show you how to master common bass parts.

eMedia Interactive Feedback technologies, like the Note and Finger Tracker, make learning bass faster. Bass lessons use popular, easy bass songs like 'Rock’n Me' by Steve Miller and the Grateful Dead’s 'Uncle John’s Band' to make learning how to play bass fun. Songs include bass-only and no-bass options so you can play along with the band plus MIDI versions of the bass part you can loop, slow down, or speed up.

Learn Conveniently at Home

Your teacher is professional bass instructor John Arbo. The excellent teaching he offers in this curriculum will help you become a good bass and offers exceptional value. Discover how to string and tune your bass guitar; create bass lines; play walkups, walkdowns, and fills; read bass tabs and notes; and play bass scales. Play along with songs as the Animated Fretboard guides your fingerings. Split-screen videos display both right- and left-hand bass technique.

Built-in Bass Guitar Tools

Tuner-Use the computer’s built-in microphone or an external one to tune up quickly and easily.

Metronome-Set your own tempo and practice playing on the beat.

Recorder-Use the computer’s built-in microphone or an external one to record your performance. Listen and share it with your family and friends.

Guitar Chord Reference-Includes recorded sounds for over 250 guitar chords so you can easily check how you sound playing along with a guitarist.

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Included is a PIP video, manual, tab, notation, power tab, and practice rhythm tracks.

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The Blues Harmonica Blueprint DVD is part of media Music's Guitar Lab DVD series, which employs a hands-on approach allowing students to play their way through the curriculum rather than struggle through tedious theory and exercises. It features PIP (Picture in Picture) video, manual, standard notation, tab, power tab files, practice rhythm tracks and bonus material. This DVD has a running time of 263 minutes.

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Rich Maloof is an editor, musician, writer, and former editor-in-chief of Guitar Magazine whose work has appeared in numerous publication and web sites. As your host and instructor for Guitar Lab's 50 Acoustic Licks You MUST Know! DVD, Rich will guide you through the some the most essential and commonly used phrases and licks used by acoustic guitar players. The Guitar Lab DVDs employ a hands-on approach allowing students to play their way through the curriculum, rather than struggle through tedious theory and exercises. Features PIP (Picture in Picture) video, manual, standard notation, tab, power tab files, practice rhythm tracks and bonus material.

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Top recording artist and monster jazz guitarist Sheryl Bailey dug wide and deep into the bebop soundscape to select the lines and approaches that comprise this essential vocabulary of bebop phrases. You'll learn lines inspired by bebop giants such as Charlie Parker, Joe Viola, Joe Pass, John Coltrane, Pat Martino, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderley, Mike Stern, Dizzy Gillespie and so many more.

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An up-tempo musical hybrid of country, rock and blues with rhythmic influences borrowed from bebop and swing, Rockabilly has been attracting audiences for decades and will likely do so for many millennia to come. Guitarists likewise love the genre and never seem to tire of adding Rockabilly moves to their bag. Ready to shred on a trunkful of tasty, prime Rockabilly riffs, licks and tricks? Top educator, recording artist and supreme Rockabilly guru Jason Loughlin presents 50 Rockabilly Guitar Licks You MUST Know! Loughlin's handpicked collection of Rockabilly licks will further guide your mastery of the vocabulary and techniques required to solo and swing with the best of them; Travis picking moves, double stops, bending, major and minor shuffles, chord substitutions, hybrid picking, boogie lines, Truckerbilly grooves, dead thumb techniques, Les Paul trills, killer western swing lines, Bigsby tricks, lap steel voicings, diminished scale licks, whole scale licks, turnarounds, intros, outros and a wide variety of Rockabilly accompaniment patterns. Master these 50 Rockabilly Guitar Licks You MUST Know and you'll be well prepared to step on any Rockabilly stage, jamming or performing this timeless and exciting musical genre! Guitar Lab's innovative learning systems employ a hands-on approach where students ""play"" their way through the curriculum using learning tools such as PIP video, practice rhythm tracks, and interactive tab and notation, which allows the student to play along with the tab and notation, at any tempo, without change in pitch.

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Virtuoso recording and performing artist Neil Zaza generously shares valuable insight and an extraordinary collection of techniques, harmonic approaches and premium lickage in 50 Melodic Rock Licks You MUST Know.

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The Modal Rock Soloing DVD is part of media Music's Guitar Lab DVD series, which employs a hands-on approach allowing students to play their way through the curriculum rather than struggle through tedious theory and exercises. It features PIP (Picture in Picture) video, manual, standard notation, tab, power tab files, practice rhythm tracks and bonus material. This DVD has a running time of 170 minutes.