eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method - Macintosh

Enhance both rhythm guitar and lead guitar technique with eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method. This complete method features over 170 guitar lessons designed to advance your playing and was created by music professor and award-winning gutarist Kevin Garry, Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder.

Guitar scales, Travis fingerpicking, jazz chords, strumming patterns, bar chords (barre chords), and more are covered in these intermediate-to-advanced guitar lessons. Learn guitar songs with classic riffs like those played by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. The included rock and blues lessons use guitar scales, string bends, and vibrato to teach you how to play lead guitar. eMedia Interactive Feedback technology (not found in video guitar lessons) helps you to learn faster!

Interactive Feedback on Your Playing

Instant Feedback shows you when you play the correct notes on your guitar as you progress through an exercise. With a microphone connected to your computer and a guitar in your hands, play the notes in the exercise (or song) on any screen featuring the “ear” icon in the upper right corner and the computer will highlight the notes for you in green. You’ll discover that reading tablature and music notation is easier than you ever thought possible!

Note and Finger Tracker

The Note Tracker and Finger Tracker tools makes it easier to see what note you’re playing by displaying the note as music notation and on eMedia’s Animated Fretboard. You’ll be able to correct your playing quickly and learn to read music fast!

Over 170 Step-by-Step Guitar Lessons

You’ll learn to play solos like the ones Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix made famous, using newly acquired skills such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, vibrato, and slides. Barre chords and different strumming styles are covered in the rhythm chapters, and there’s a fingerstyle chapter as well. Intervals, scales, and the basics of improvisation are also covered in this comprehensive volume. As with Guitar Method, your instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., provides clear and friendly instruction.

eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method features songs in a variety of genres to make learning fun and memorable – including Rock, Blues, Folk, Country, and Classical! Our latest version includes dynamic, enhanced, multi-track audio playback of hit songs popularized by well-known artists

Over 30 Guitar Lesson Videos

Professional guitar instructor Kevin Garry, Ph.D., guides you in over 30 videos with demonstrations of techniques – now larger, with enhanced quality! You can even view them in full-screen mode if you want to.

Music Notation Display Options

Learn via guitar tablature or standard music notation through this easily accessible menu option.

Music Tracking

Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they’re heard makes it easy to follow along on guitar.

Variable-Speed MIDI

Slows down the audio to any tempo, while the Animated Fretboard shows song fingerings as the music plays. Learn at the pace best suited to you!

Scale Directory

Fingerings, recordings and variable-speed MIDI for over 150 scales make practicing and learning new scales easy. When scales are introduced in the lesson material, they are followed by sample songs applying those scales, making the learning experience practical and fun.

Music Theory

An interactive Circle of Fifths helps teach music theory and is linked to scales in the Scale Directory chapter in Intermediate Guitar Method. Intervals, chord construction, the basics of improvisation, and modes are also covered.

Animated Fretboard

Watch the fretboard come alive with real-time display of notes, including bends, vibrato, and slides! It displays fingering positions for you as the music plays. This allows you to see exactly how to play the song on a simulated guitar fretboard as you listen to the music and the music tracking highlights the notes. Since you can highlight and loop any section of the music (or even double-click on a single note in the music), you can use the Animated Fretboard to make difficult sections or quick changes easier to manage and learn. The Animated Fretboard makes it simple to follow along with the lesson content. Includes option for both right- and left-handed views, and, just for fun, choose from six different fretboard skins modeled after classic guitars!

Automatic Tuner

Tune your guitar quickly and easily. A precision gauge allows you to play into your computer’s microphone and tune up interactively. Reference guitar tuning notes are also included.

Chord Dictionary

Includes fingering charts and recorded sounds for over 1000 chords! Easy access helps you learn songs with new chords quickly. The Chord Dictionary is an indispensable reference tool.

Digital Metronome

Set your tempo and practice keeping a steady beat with audio and visual indicators.

Digital Recorder

Save your recordings and play back to share and compare.