It’s a blast.) You’ll need patience and practice practice practice to become a decent musician. (If you never saw the movie, rent it tonight. Rock Guitar Method is N-O-T a crash course for every kid who watched “School of Rock†and wants to play like Jack Black. If you’re a lefty or a Hendrix wannabee, your entire instruction can utilize the optional left hand and/or upside-down fretboard. Lessons can be printed, which is recommended for newcomers to the guitar. ![]() Icons to the left of the tutorial pages contain throbbing rollover buttons for playing the audio/video samples, without any hesitation or hiccups. His playing is clean and easy to follow, especially with help from the animated fretboard that appears as needed at the bottom of your display (full-screen at 800 x 600 resolution). Our friendly instructor is a youngish guy with short hair and a trimmed beard, who is heavy on distortion and amplified fuzz. Seventeen descriptive Appendix topics address a comprehensive range of essential info, from tuning and positioning to “Musical Alphabet and the Fretboard.†Production values are outstanding, including spoken instructions, animated musical examples, and demonstration QuickTime videos. Through 106 lessons, users proceed from elementary guitar instruction to advanced playing techniques. Rock Guitar Method works in every Mac OS from 7.5.3 to the present (bravo, eMedia!). I chose this older computer to test eMedia’s quality of coding and QuickTime audio/video, instead of my new G5, to simulate a typical user experience. Next came “Win a free guitar!†registration card, followed by brief installation instructions (Mac/Win), a promo brochure for all eMedia tutorials, and a single CD.ĭrag and drop installation of 56MB on my prehistoric G3 iBook was effortless. The first thing to fall out was a cute small red plectrum, medium density plastic, with the eMedia logo and URL. Not much resides within the colorful, standard-sized product box. Their new Rock Guitar Method is a superior product that helps beginners and intermediates to become better rock guitarists when used alongside diligent study and practice. Company employees were exhausted at the end of each day on the showroom floor, stumbling away from San Francisco’s Moscone Center knowing they have the best-selling cross-platform music instruction software. The eMedia Music booth at January’s Macworld Expo was bursting with sounds from guitars and MIDI keyboards and tutorial CDs.
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