This guitar Course contains

• interactive chord and scale charts
especially designed for beginners. These charts go into extreme detail, you can pick out and listen to each note one by one.
• interactive guitar exercises
you can hear and see the exercises to make them easily understood
• printable e-books
all the exercises and tunes can be printed out, so you can study the material away from the computer.
• backing tracks
to play along with or help you with tunes you don't know
• a metronome
to help you get used to playing in correct time
• a guitar tuner
so you can develop an ear for the guitar
• a backing player
so can listen to the backing directly from the program
• Some fun tunes included
Twinkle twinkle, Frera Jaqua, Pop goes the weasel, Coming round the mountain, crazy frog-Axle F (riff), Gorillaz–Feel Good Inc (riff), Amazing grace, Oasis–Live forever, Bob Dylan-Blowing in the wind.

Guitar Guide

This is a guide to the various types of guitars available. This is useful if you are thinking of buying a guitar, or want to know more about guitars.

Wit the guitar guide is a detailed guide to guitar parts both by guitar and by component. This will help you understand the various features available and help you decide what features you would like.

Interactive
chord charts and exercises

The interactive chord charts allow you to hear the chord you would like to learn. The chord chart will then take you to a dedicated page for each chord that will allow you to hear the chord played normally, raked, or give you the option of playing each note in the chord one by one so you can compare it more carefully with your own rendition of the chord.

There are also a number of chord exercises including tunes with backing tracks that allow you to practice and improve your chords and chord changes.

Interactive scale charts

The interactive scale charts allow you to hear the scale you would like to learn. The scale chart will then take you to a dedicated page for each scale that will allow you to hear each note played one by one so you can compare it more carefully with your own rendition of the scale.

Interactive
Tablature explanation and exercises

Tablature or Tab is one of the most common ways of writing guitar music. All good music shops have guitar books written using tablature and there are many sources on the internet of tablature music. So to learn tablature is a definite must for the modern guitarist.

The interactive tablature explanation explains in an easily followed way how to read tablature, and allows you to hear how the tablature should be played. You can hear the tablature exercises played normally or played note by note so that you can compare it more carefully with your own rendition. This will help reinforce your confidence in your understanding of tablature.

Choosing a guitar and the basics
presentations

These two presentations are video/animation style presentations which take you through the various types of guitars available and give you advise on choosing the right instrument for you. The presentation goes through a cross-section of guitars and compares them.

The basics presentation takes you through all the important basic elements you will need to know to progress as a guitarist. These really are the basics, and are explained simply.

• Elements of the fingerboard
• How to read a chord map
• How to read a scale map
• How to read tablature

Printable PDF e-book

The e-book is a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) document that can be printed out and kept as a valuable addition to the material on the CD-rom. Having a printed copy of the exercises allows you to study them more carefully, you can return to the interactive versions of the exercises when you need the extra help of the interactive material.

The chord chart, scale chart, tablature and playing techniques are all documented in the e-book.

Providing an e-book as opposed to a preprinted version of the documentation means you get the same material at a fraction of the price.

FREE GIFT
Also includes the e-books for unit one