eMedia Guitar Master Software: Learn to play rock guitar

Guitar Master will teach you to play for real with over 100 audio- and video-enhanced rock guitar lessons. You can start from ground zero, and eMedia's revolutionary teaching style will have you playing songs, chords and riffs within minutes. Soon you'll be playing hit songs found in Guitar Hero and Rock Band, including "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath and "You Really Got Me" as by Van Halen. 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! All these techniques are applied to playing hit songs, with an animated fretboard guiding you through fingerings as the music plays.

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!

• Enjoy hours of live recorded multi-track audio.
• Watch the techniques demonstrated in over 50 full-motion videos.
• Spoken tips and advice from the instructor are just a click away.
• Song looping lets you highlight and repeat any section of music you wish to practice.
• Slow the music down with variable-speed MIDI tracks.
• Music tracking highlights notes or chords as they are played.

Built-in Power Tools:

• Automatic Tuner - Tune your guitar quickly and easily!
• Tuner - Play into your computer microphone and tune up interactively. Reference tuning notes are also included.
• Chord Dictionary Includes fingering charts and recorded sound playback for over 250 chords. Helps you learn songs with new chords.
• 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.
• Digital Metronome Set your own tempo and keep a steady beat with audio and/or visual feedback.
• Digital Recorder Save your recordings and play them back to share with friends or compare to the instructor's version.

Guitar Master gives you everything you need to play for real!

System Requirements

• Windows: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 16 MB of free RAM, 78 MB of free hard disk space PC soundcard, CD-ROM
• Macintosh: Power PC (or faster), Intel OK Mac OS X 10.1 or later 16 MB of free RAM, 78 of free hard disk space CD-ROM