eMedia Guitar For Dummies

3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars | 133 ratings

Price: 29.95

Last update: 12-28-2024


About this item

This acclaimed guitar software provides beginning guitar lessons for electric and acoustic guitar and teaches you how to play guitar across rock, country, blues, and other guitar styles.
Over 40 professional videos, many with split-screen view, make it easier to learn how to play guitar by seeing both hands.
Play along with over 40 easy guitar songs, including famous hits by Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, and Steve Miller.
An automatic guitar tuner that makes learning how to tune your guitar easier, interactive guitar chord chart (chord dictionary) to learn guitar chords, a metronome to help you keep the beat, and even a recorder so you can judge your progress.
Songs and exercises as both audio and variable-speed MIDI tracks where selections can be looped, slowed down, or sped up

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  • Mamacat
    5.0 out of 5 stars Guitar for Dummies (emedia version)
    Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2013
    I bought this for my husband, who is learning to play the guitar; and, managed to lose the CD provided with the original 'Guitar for Dummies' book. He didn't even want to open the package because then you can't send it back and because he is not very computer savvy. Long story short: the first lesson convinced him this is the way to learn. Chords are clearly presented, played so finger position is displayed and then chords are used in a song. Computer savvy is obviously not a necessary ingredient! Presents the basics in an easy, interesting and musical way. Now I have to wait (interminably) to use the computer.
  • Northwest
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good
    Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2013
    This program is exactly what the title says it is. It gives a pretty good introduction to guitar playing. Most of the songs have an option to view a picture of the top of the fret board while someone else is playing the song. What I dont like about this feature is that the "fingers" show up as simple dots, and don't really show how a persons hand is supposed to move for the chord changes. This program also gives the option to watch someone else play the song, which sounds like a great idea but it really doesn't add much. My biggest problem with guitars is that I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong in some sections. I was really hopping that the feature where you get to watch someone else play would help me figure it out. What I really learned is that wrong or right people look the same playing the guitar. This program does not help you figure out problems. If you started from a cold start not knowing anything (as the Title says "For Dummies") then this might have worked better for me, but I'm not sure I wouldn't have run into the same problems. Previous programs by Emedia have allowed for the option of plugging in a MIDI device that allows the program to test and tell you based on what you are playing if you are doing something right. I was really looking forward to being able to use that on this program, however there is no such thing on this program. I felt that was a draw back to other EMedia Programs, and this product is made by Emedia and "For Dummies" so I felt that was disapointing. The other problem with the program is that once you get past several lessons they get into real songs, and instead of focusing on the guitar playing they have someone singing and its very distracting. As a musician of many instruments (Brass/strings) any musician practices again and again the parts they are having difficulty with and the goal is to play your part correctly. The singing on a guitar playing tutorial program was very distracting. The good parts of this program are that it does explain concepts very well. The idea of the slash chord vs power chords are explained well and the exercises reflect the lessons they are teaching in each chapter. I feel that this is a great alternative to taking a class filled with other people- however I'm not convinced that its much more effective than a book and a music CD could have been. This program is focused on rock/blues and does NOT touch at all on standard music notation or classical guitar in anyway. Once a lesson is done there are "review" screens that go back and quiz you or become reference screens for chords. It is very easy to see this book as a sequence and really see how to have a great foundation for guitar playing.
  • Addy Daddy
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2015
    Still can’t play, but I can follow the chords
  • RO
    1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't seem to work with all Macs
    Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2013
    The program did not load up on a Mac using System 10.8.2 even though product info on box states the program works with Mac computers with System 10.4 and above. The program itself is 3 years old and it's obvious the creators had not anticipated System 2.6 and above. Contacted eMedia and they concluded the disc, Version 1.0 was bad. Version 1.0 is three years old, which indicates how long the product may have been sitting on Amazon stock shelves, but maybe not. The eMedia folks immediately sent me a new one. Just tried it out, and it doesn't work either, exhibiting same symptoms of the same script error. Did some research and found out that a later version of the program does exist for newer Macs called Version 1.0.1, but this has to be downloaded from the Apple Store. Product may work fine on PC machines, but be careful with newer Macs. Like most digital products these days, it is one disc in an oversized box with no real documentation. The diagnostic program to troubleshoot problems can be downloaded from the eMedia website, but it doesn't work either because the diagnostic program presumes there is a Serial No. for the product. Emedia said there is no serial no. I have not even contact Amazon yet.
  • Marc K.
    2.0 out of 5 stars windows
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2013
    this product didn't work for me it does not work on windows 8 it is not compatable kinda waste of money on my part it did not teach me anything
  • IIIIISIIIII
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great deal!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2013
    great product, easy to use and easy to understand! I bought this as a gift and the person loved it! He is playing very well and seems to enjoy the program in general! Nice gift for the beginner!
  • Ronald M. Chaplin
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great for novices like me
    Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2011
    So far, I'm impressed by the quality of this software. The only qualification to this is that it is like traditional musical instruction - that is, it starts with the most granular building blocks and works its way upward. For many students, especially younger ones, this might be a bit too slow. There's always a desire to try and jump right into more advanced techniques. The only other thing to mention is that to really use stuff like the built-in tuner, you need some method to get the input into your PC. I took the simple route of just plugging the guitar into the amp, then running the headphone jack on the amp to the line-in on the PC. Honestly, I'm not quite sure what I would have done if I were using an acoustic guitar. The times I just tried to use the PC's built-in microphone, it picked up far too much environmental noise to be of any use. Still, I like this software a lot and unhesitantly recommend it for a complete guitar beginner like me.
  • Robert
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great product for beginers or those who just want to refresh there style
    Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2013
    I tried learning the Guitar several time. All with instructors and never felt like I la\earned anything . I was shown several cords and a wheel which I still do not understand. But this product teaches everything as a beginner should be show. You learn at your own pace and you start off with very simple cords and proceed on . The best thing I LIKE about it you start plating songs from the star. I only have this teaching guide a few weeks and i am playing better than I ever did paying for instruction . I just enjoy this product so much . I am spreading the word to others of my age group to try it. I am a senior citizen. Young teens and others will be rocking i9n no time at all.

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