Educational guitar learning software for beginners to intermediate guitarists plus some excellent freeware & shareware guitar tuners, chordfinders and tab authoring programs for all levels.
Guitar Learning Software
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GUITAR LEARNING SOFTWARE
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Guitar Method 1
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98
CD-ROM Features:
Stringing, Tuning and Holding the Guitar
Reading Chord Charts & Playing Chords
Double Strum, Accented Strumming
Folk Rock, Syncopation, Power Chords
The Blues, Rhythm & 12-Bar Blues
Tablature & Rhythmic Notation
Reading Music Notation
Playing Simple Melodies
Bass Note Strum, Country Style
Arpeggio & Travis Fingerpicking
Reviews
The Guitar is a very popular instrument, and many of us can strum a chord or two. But if you'd like to learn more, then you'll want a proper tutor. Guitar Method 1 is one of a series of multimedia tutors you can use to move out of the absolute beginner class. There are 60 lessons in all, broken down into six chapters, while a separate appendix covers musical notation.
You start from the very beginning. The first lesson walks you through different types of guitar, teaches you how to hold it, names bits of the instrument, and so on. Pretty soon, you'll be playing chords and singing along and moving through practical lessons. Animations help keep your fingers in the right place, and there are some videos on hand to help explain some techniques. You can listen to narrated explanations of each lesson, play along with your tutor, or record yourself and then listen to your performance. There is a handy metronome on board that you can set to tick-tick-tick away to the beat as you try to ensure your playing is in time, and a chord dictionary is on hand for quick reference.
This is a well constructed tutor with plenty of flexibility. The songs to be learned cover a good range including folk, classical and even some more modern tunes. --Sandra Vogel
Guitar Method 1 is eMedia's top-selling title in its Guitar Method series, aimed at beginners of guitar and consisting of 85 comprehensive lessons, over 100 songs and exercises which are accompanied by full-motion video and sound. Including over three hours of pre-recorded music and audio, an automatic tuner, animated fretboard, and fretonome. Also contains record sound playback, over 250 chords and much more. Users learn from tablature or music notation at a pace that best suits their skill...
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Blues Guitar Legends Lesson CD-ROM
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT
Learn to play guitar like the Blues Legends with this Listen, Watch and Learn system available on CD.
10 Classic songs performed by the original artist. See how the song is played using multiple layouts, including music notation, tablature, and on an animated fretboard in real time. With full-length artist biographies, text-based lessons for each song, controllable metronome,
dynamic or static tabulature, loop facility, an automatic tuner that allows electric or acoustic players to tune via a computer microphone and a recorder for recording your own tracks you'll soon be mastering the Blues!
Tracks include:-
B.B. King’s - The Thrill is Gone
Allman Brothers Band’s - Statesboro Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s - Crossfire
Freddie King’s - Hideaway and More!!
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PrintMusic! ME for Windows/Mac CD-ROM by CODA
Platform: Macintosh, Windows
Features
Easily and quickly create beautiful scores, for screen and print
Turn sheet music into editable files with any standard scanner
Enter a melody using a microphone connected to your computer
Automatically publish your work on the Internet
Enter in real time or at your own pace
Drag and drop editing
Automated setup 'Wizards' make common tasks a breeze
Extract every part with personalised page layout for each voice/instrument
Files are compatible with Finale and Allegro
Reviews
Producing sheet music is time-intensive and error prone. PrintMusic makes it fast and straightforward using a mouse, keyboard and even a MIDI instrument connected to your computer. The installation CD is Windows and Mac-compatible with a manual covering both.
The setup wizard enables you to define a name, paper size and orientation, choose instruments types--woodwind, brass and so on--and add instruments. PrintMusic then creates the sheet using the supplied editable templates. You can alter the key and the measure as well as add, alter or remove notes, rests, tuplets, beams, a variety of articulations and other musical annotation. PrintMusic dynamically lays it out to professional publisher standard.
Inner voices support--like layers in a graphics package--is impressive. You can add up to four voices each of which can have up to 12 notes per chord for 48 notes per staff on any beat. Use the PlayBack controls to hear your composition at any time, including articulations. If you're using inner voices you can play them in any combination.
Because computer keyboards don't make a good fit with music the keys have special editing functions which take time to learn. Fortunately you're aided by seven excellent tutorials taking you from initial installation to the professional music notation features. Along the way you'll learn various speed entry techniques. For example, PrintMusic can even import a standard MIDI file and export to sequencing programs. The final result is a fast and flexible system for creating and editing professional quality sheet music--a must for any composer. --Steve Patient
PrintMusic! ME provides a fun way to create, play and print music from scratch, or from any MIDI file. PrintMusic! is easy to learn, fast to use, and provides the same quality sheet music as top music publishers. Why? Because PrintMusic! is created from Finale, the worldwide standard in notation software. And with PrintMusic!, you can turn 1000's of MIDI files, available free on the Internet, into sheet music instantly. You can scan sheet music into PrintMusic! and then have PrintMusic! play it back for you -- at whatever tempo you want. Slow it down as much as you want, using MIDI, and learn those riffs!
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Allegro ME for Windows/Mac CD-ROM by CODA
Platform: Macintosh, Windows
Features
32 staves of notation
Turn sheet music into editable files with any standard scanner
Enter a melody using a microphone connected to your computer
Automatically publish your work on the Internet
Automated music spacing for beautiful results
All-at-once lyric entry system
Extract every part with personalised page layout for each voice/instrument
Transpose, re-beam and rebar with a single command
Coda's unique Visual Index identifies most notation elements and symbols then explains their function
Files are compatible with Finale and PrintMusic
Reviews
For musicians who want professional quality music notation that's affordable, fast and easy to use, Allegro ME provides more power for less money than any other notation software. Unlike other lower priced programs, Allegro is both easy and powerful, because its features are selected from Finale, the World's Number One professional music notation software. It has all the MIDI and notation tools you need to create publisher quality scores.
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100 Superstar Guitar Sounds On A Stompbox Budget
Now you can duplicate the sounds of rock's greatest guitarists! Straight from the pages of Guitar Magazine's 'Sound F/X columns', here are 100 guitar sounds you can make with today's inexpensive effects pedals. Each effect setting is accurately illustrated on the accompanying CD using DOD pedals. Includes the guitar sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Korn, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Smashing Pumpkins and many more!
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Guitar Tracks Version 2
In a band? On a budget? Guitar Tracks 2 gives you the ease and simplicity of a multi track cassette recorder combined with the power of your PC. Get an 8-track 'portable studio', complete with a ton of effects and bonus gadgets for guitarists. Requires Windows 95(OSR2)/98, Pentium 200MHz, 32 MB RAM, 256 Colours or greater (600x800).
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Finale 2001 Windows CD-ROM
CODA
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000
Features
The world’s favourite professional notation package
Combines power with flexibility, catering for every musical style
Input notation using any acoustic instrument via MicNotator
Explode scores to create instant orchestration or implode scores to create instant piano reductions
Automatically publish scores over the internet
Now includes MIDIScan technology for sheet music scanning
Reviews
For professional musicians and educators who want publisher-quality notation that's easy to use, Finale provides more power and flexibility than any other notation program. Nothing else comes close. Finale is the world's number one music notation software used by more composers, publishers, educators, ministers and other professionals than any other, making it the standard against which all others are compared. Finale 2001 is easier and more powerful than ever. With a new instrument set-up wizard, automatic music spacing, a new professional music font and support for scanning, you will get superior printed output in less time. And with five different ways to enter music, you are able to choose the easiest and fastest method using your mouse, computer keyboard or Finale's patented real-time note entry method, HyperScribe, where you play music at your own speed, with or without a click track, and notation appears instantly on your screen.
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Finale Guitarist Notation Software for Guitarists More info at Piedog
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