How to play the Guitar - Volume II is the sequel to the 1st volume. How to Play the Guitar Vol2 is developed by a professional guitar player and trainer. This multimedia tutorial takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals or playing folk, rock, blues, finger picking on the acoustic or electric guitar.

Volume II is for beginning and intermediate musicians. Its 23 lessons cover guitar skills, technique, and musical theory. It uses both tab and standard musical notation to teach students to master the pick, arpeggios, finger-picking, hammering-on and pulling-off, slide, chords, and performing basic rhythms to a steady beat.

Recreating the atmosphere of a private guitar lesson, the program covers common mistakes encountered by most students, including difficulties in keeping rhythm, fingering, and musical interpretation. Each lesson is progressively more difficult, and builds on prior lessons.

In addition, all of the exercises are provided in standard MIDI format, and some guitar parts can be played with a bass and drums accompaniment to keep time. The course has a metronome to keep time, and a tuner to ensure that the guitar has the right pitch.

Limitations:

· 30 day trial

How to Play the Guitar - Volume I, is a guitar tutorial designed for absolute beginners. Developed by a professional guitar player and trainer, this multimedia tutorial takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals of playing blues, rock, folk, arpeggios, and even classical music on the electric or acoustic guitar.

In this guitar course you will find eleven studies inspired by various forms of the Blues: major, finger-picking, minor, played with a pick, and more.

The cyclic structure of this musical style produces pieces which are easy to remember, however the majority of these songs are not meant for beginners. How to play the guitar also features a metronome and a guitar tuner.

Limitations:

· More lessons in full version
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Guitar Ensemble Dream is a surreal menagerie of over 40 guitar photo-images moving about on your display. Guitar Ensemble Dream is a must-have for all guitar fans.

Desktop Guitarist - Fully functional guitar shareware. Easily create chord charts, tablature and midi files. Intuitive user interface lets you enter music by clicking on the guitar neck. Many play back options, including step mode.

Teaching mode allows display of text files and BMP graphics for students while the on-screen guitar plays examples and lesson material. Includes a lesson on chord theory and a lesson designed to help beginners have some fun with their guitar. Help file included with step-by-step tutorial.

Desktop Guitarist can play background chords while you practice. Sections can be looped, playback speed can be adjusted for learning tunes or the music can also be played one line at a time. The Chord Finder is a full chord reference which provides your choice of voicings for just about any chord.

The Scale Finder, can find any scale and display it on the guitar neck. Chord charts and text tab can be printed or copied to the Windows clipboard for use in other programs. Includes music: chord solo for guitar plus rock, jazz & pop riffs as well as popular classical songs arranged for guitar.

Things to try with Desktop Guitarist:
· Go through the short tutorial and learn how to input chords by clicking on the guitar neck. Then you can press a function key to instantly generate tablature, a chord chart or a midi file.
· Play the song Desktop Theme on the Welcome screen and watch as the current chord and scale are displayed on the top status bar while it plays.
· Find any chord instantly with the Chord Finder. Or you can find a bunch of chords and then print out a page of chord diagrams.
· Take the lesson for beginners and have some fun with your guitar.
· Take the lesson in chord theory and learn about music theory.
· Tune up your guitar with the Tuning Notes screen.

Whats New in This Release:

· Many improvements over previous version

How to Play the Guitar - Volume I, is a guitar tutorial that makes it easy for absolute beginners to learn to master the instrument. Developed by a professional guitar player and trainer, this multimedia tutorial takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals of playing blues, rock, folk, arpeggios, and even classical music on the electric or acoustic guitar. The lessons are designed for guitar enthusiasts with no prior musical knowledge. All lessons are written in both tablature and standard musical notation. Youll learn how to move fingers of the left hand while playing simple, repetitive patterns with the right hand. Recreating the atmosphere of a private guitar lesson, the program covers common mistakes encountered by most students, including difficulties in keeping rhythm, fingering, and musical interpretation. Each lesson is progressively more difficult, and builds on prior lessons.

How to play the Guitar - Volume II is the sequel to the 1st volume. Developed by a professional guitar player and trainer, this multimedia tutorial takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals of playing blues, rock, folk, finger picking, on the electric or acoustic guitar. Volume II is for beginning and intermediate musicians. Its 23 lessons cover guitar skills, technique, and musical theory. It uses both tab and standard musical notation to teach students to master the pick, arpeggios, finger-picking, hammering-on and pulling-off, slide, chords, and performing basic rhythms to a steady beat. Recreating the atmosphere of a private guitar lesson, the program covers common mistakes encountered by most students, including difficulties in keeping rhythm, fingering, and musical interpretation. Each lesson is progressively more difficult, and builds on prior lessons. In addition, all of the exercises are provided in standard MIDI format, and some guitar parts can be played with a bass and drums accompaniment to keep time. The course has a metronome to keep time, and a tuner to ensure that the guitar has the right pitch.

Great looking wallpaper of a Yamaha Guitar. High resalution (1024x768) From Guitar art.

Song Writer will help create and maintain the popular chord/lyric song format. It can transpose a song to any key and create a transparency for the song. If there is an audio file(mp3, wav,...) on the hard drive, it will link to the song and play it from within Song Writer. Song Writer also has a graphical chord database that shows guitar chord structures as well as chord theory tutorial.