Learn to Play Guitar
Guitar Method
- 165 comprehensive lessons with options for either tablature or music notation
- Over 50 high-resolution, large-format videos including split-screens and close-ups of both hands
- Over 70 hit songs from artists such as the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Steve Miller, and more
- Animated Fretboard displays fingering positions as the music plays; support for left-handed animated fretboard with custom skins
- Includes automatic tuner, metronome, digital recorder and 250-chord dictionary
Product DescriptionThe new version of the world’s best-selling beginning guitar CD-ROM! Over 160 comprehensive lessons cover everything from the basics to chord strumming, playing melodies, and fingerpicking. A modern rock chapter includes various strumming styles, movable power chords, and power chord riffs. Over 50 large-format videos from instructor Kevin Garry, Ph. D. , include split-screens and close-ups of both hands. Learning guitar is made fun with over 70 songs, including f. . . More >>
Guitar Method
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This is a good way to get started and familiarize yourself with guitar. It’s easy to use, though doesn’t load as smoothly on a Mac as on a pc. It’s easy to follow and gets you strumming right away. Not very strong on technique–it’s a big help to have someone show you the right way to hold your fingers, change strings, tune your guitar, etc. Overall, a good value for the money.
it is helping me get where I want to with learning to play a guitar
I purchased this with a new guitar as a beginner. After a few weeks, I find myself disappointed that I have learned more from free advise on the internet then what this software has offered. Here are my biggest gripes:
1) Flashback to 1976. I don’t know if the video instruction was filmed in the 1970′s, or the instructor just refuses to update his wardrobe and hairstyle, but it feels like I am stuck in a bad re-run of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. Also, it almost feels like he filmed it himself. I can almost see him running back to the camera after a take to stop the camera.
2) Breezes over some very important fundamentals. Without realizing, I was picking up some bad habbits b/c the instruction does not emphasize some key tips on fingering chords, using the pick, etc. After browsing the net later on some guitar sites, I realized I had developed some bad habbits that could have been prevented with just more time and tips spent on some basics.
3) Unrelatable – the songs you practice to work on chords are absolutely horrible. Too much dumb folk music. I like a variety of music, including some Peter, Paul and Mary. But this is just too much folk and it’s depressing. I find myself not learning b/c I don’t want to hear myself play that aweful music. Some searching on the net revealed I could be practicing some Johnny Cash (who played a lot of 3 or 4 chord songs).
4) Not so user friendly. I found it difficult to move around in the software. The product doesn’t have the user-friendly feel that should be expected this day and age. This software could have been written in early 90′s for all I know. Not impressive.
I have some more gripes, but I think you get the point and I am tired of typing about a product I probably won’t use much more. Basically, I am just DISAPPOINTED. I would recommend some on-line lessons which I have found much more modern and useful. This software costs about 4 months worth on unlimited online lessons. I found it’s worth going that route instead.
The product is all that it says it is. It is very basic, good for practice. I think the internet and live lessons are better.
I have had this program for about 4 months and still find myself trying to master some of the most basic songs. The longer I have used the more it seems that it focuses on “campfire songs”. There are a few licensed tracks like Knockin on Heavens Door by Dylan, but when you get to that point with the software it feels awfully difficult. It would have been nice if there was a little bit more tutorial and a few sections that described things to watch out for when playing. Instead we move from song to song with a new chord thrown in. No practice routines or finer exercises are present from what I have found.