eMedia Music Masters of Rock Guitar (Mac, Download)

Playing classic rock guitar songs just got easier, thanks to eMedia Music’s downloadable Masters of Rock Guitar for Mac. Learn how to play guitar and bass parts for 14 songs made famous by legends such as Clapton, Hendrix, The Who, Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and more. Develop your rock guitar technique as you learn new rock guitar licks and chords.Benefit from note-for-note guitar tabs and standard music notation for “Behind Blue Eyes,” “All Along the Watchtower,” “Oye Como Va,” “Before You Accuse Me,” “The Sky is Cryin’,” “Baby, I Love Your Way,” “Magic Man,” and other well-known and beloved songs. You’ll learn more quickly and easily with eMedia’s Animated Fretboard, Interactive Feedback, and Performance Evaluation technology. This innovative guitar software listens as you play along with the recording and highlights correctly played notes in melodic lines and solos. Variable-speed MIDI playback lets you slow down the music as needed.Integrated guitar-software tools include an automatic digital tuner, complete with custom tunings as needed, in addition to a recorder and a digital metronome. With Masters of Rock Guitar, you’ll feel as though you’re learning how to play from the masters themselves. The program will inspire you and prepare you for rocking out with bands and playing at jam sessions.Features 14 classic rock guitar songs to help you learn how to play better and build up a repertoire of songs to play with others.Songs include “All Along the Watchtower” (Jimi Hendrix / Bob Dylan), “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” (Jim Croce), “Before You Accuse Me” (Eric Clapton / Bo Diddley), “Behind Blue Eyes,” (The Who), “Baby, I Love Your Way” (Peter Frampton), “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (Guns ‘N Roses / Bob Dylan), “Jet Airliner” (The Steve Miller Band / Paul Pena), “Magic Man” (Heart), “Oye Como Va” (Carlos Santana / Tito Puente), “Take Me to the River” (Talking Heads / Al Green), “That’ll Be the Day” (Buddy Holly), “Truckin'” (Grateful Dead), “Rock’n Me” (The Steve Miller Band), and “The Sky is Cryin'” (Stevie Ray Vaughan / Elmore James)

• Enjoy celebrity performances by Peter Frampton (playing “Baby, I Love Your Way”) and Roger Fisher, former guitarist of Heart (playing a special version of “Magic Man”)
• Play along with live-recorded, multitrack audio
• Real instrument multitracking lets you zero in on the guitar-only tracks, or turn them off and play along with the rest of the band. Bass-only, No Bass, and rhythm-only tracks are also included. Of course, you can also hear the full audio track in all its glory, complete with guitar, rhythm, and vocals. Professional studio recordings and authentic instrumentation ensure that what you hear sounds like the real thing
• Benefit from the ability to highlight and loop song sections to repeat any part you wish
• Variable-speed MIDI playback lets you slow down the music as needed
• Includes pro rhythm-section tracks for jamming
• Offers rock guitar licks, leads, and rhythm parts suited to guitarists of multiple skill levels and interests
• Guitar parts presented as both guitar tablature (tabs) and standard music notation. Additionally, music tracking feature highlights tablature or notation in real time as music plays, making it easy to follow along
• Animated Fretboard allows you to see fingerings, string bends, vibrato, slides, and other crucial elements in learning how to play rock guitar licks and songs correctly. Includes both right- and left-handed views from two perspectives: looking down at your own guitar or over at an instructor’s
• Interactive Feedback highlights as you practice matching single notes in riffs and solos. Play the notes in the song on any screen featuring the “ear” icon in upper right corner and the computer will highlight notes for you in green. Requires computer microphone/line-in
• Performance Evaluation technology scores how well you play the song in rhythm. Requires computer microphone/line-in. Notes are highlighted in green, yellow, or red depending on whether they are recognized as the correct notes, nearby notes, or notes far off the mark. You also get an overall score
• Guitar and bass performance notes on how to play in individual players’ styles, complete with tunings, chord voicings, and fingering choices
• Integrated guitar-software tools include an automatic digital tuner (complete with custom tunings as needed), a recorder, and a digital metronome. Tuner has precision gauge allowing you to play into your computer’s microphone and tune up interactively. Reference guitar-tuning notes and two alternate tuning modes are also included. The metronome lets you set your own speed and keep a steady beat, while the recorder enables you to save what you’ve played and replay it for others to hear
• Features photos as well as biographical information about songs and artists
• Program is an upgrade from eMedia’s Guitar Songs, offering many of the same great songs and adding features such as Interactive Feedback technology–plus new electric versions of “All Along the Watchtower” (as made famous by Hendrix) and “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (as made famous by Slash)