Learn To Play The Guitar and Guitar Mode Maker 2 Software for Windows

How to Play the Guitar Vol1
$28.9 - Terre Mouvante Cie

How to Play the Guitar - Volume I, is a guitar tutorial that makes it easy for absolute beginners to learn to master the instrument. Developed by a professional guitar player and trainer, this multimedia tutorial takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals of playing blues, rock, folk, arpeggios, and even classical music on the electric or acoustic guitar.

The lessons are designed for guitar enthusiasts with no prior musical knowledge. All lessons are written in both tablature and standard musical notation. You'll learn how to move fingers of the left hand while playing simple, repetitive patterns with the right hand.

Recreating the atmosphere of a private guitar lesson, the program covers common mistakes encountered by most students, including difficulties in keeping rhythm, fingering, and musical interpretation. Each lesson is progressively more difficult, and builds on prior lessons.

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NSA Song Player
$29.95 - NSA Software LLC

The NSA Song Player is designed to help you learn and create songs for the guitar. You can import tablature and hear it as it is played to the Metronome speed you choose, or create your own songs and progressions. Now with alternate tuning, staff and a capo, you can enter virtually any song, see and hear it played, and find scales and arpeggios to play over it.

You can learn from the Song Player in several different ways. It can be an invaluable reference tool, with over 1200 chords and thousands of scales in standard tuning alone. As notes are displayed, you can choose several options for additional information, such as note names or relative positions. So as you play songs you will become more familiar with the fretboard and how songs are built.

You can use the Metronome to start your practice slowly, and then build up to speed as you become more comfortable with a song or piece of tablature. You can also navigate through songs easily to find the parts that are difficult for specific practice.

Once you are familiar with a song, you can test your skills by playing it in a different key (with the click of a button), or change the fret position to learn different variations of its chords.

The Song Player comes with a complete Guided Tour to get you started quickly. The tour walks you through all the steps of working with chords, scales, songs and tablature. It is completely interactive, so you can do everything as it is explained to you.

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Fret Fun
$4.95 - Heron Creek Music

Fret Fun is the interactive guitar flash card game that helps you learn the note names for the guitar and get you on your way to reading music. It's very simple and fun to play! Each game presents a random selection of 20 notes, displayed one at a time, and you will be asked to identify where it lives on the fingerboard by selecting its name, string number and fret number. Three challenge levels, review of missed notes at end of every game. Here's how it works:

First select the challenge level to play:

Level 1 (Just Got a Guitar) covers the notes in what we call Zone 1 - all the notes on every string up to and including the 4th fret (and the open strings). As you know, some notes have two names, such as F# (also known as Gb); both 'spellings' are included making a total of 50 possible note names to master (48 in Level 2 and 47 in Level 3). Each game presents a random selection of 20 notes, displayed one at a time, and you will be asked to identify where it lives on the guitar by selecting its name, string number and fret number. If you entered the right answer, you can advance to the next selection by clicking 'Next'. If you're answer was incorrect, you have the option of entering another answer ('Try Again') or skipping to the next note ('Next'). You get points for correct answers (5 points for first try answers, 2.5 point for second try answers) and at the end of the game your score is expressed as a percentage (after any notes you missed are be presented for review).

Level 2 (Have Some Chops) covers the notes in what we call Zone 2 - all the notes on every string from the 5th fret to the 8th fret, all spellings.

Level 3 (Virtuoso) covers the notes in what we call Zone 3 - all the notes on every string from the 9th fret to the 12th fret, all spellings.

Free practice/study sheets for each level are available at www.Music4ClassicalGuitar.com (Look for "Notes on the Guitar" in the Technique section).

Good hunting and have fun!

Kevin and Mark

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Guitar and Drum Trainer
$49.95 - Renegade Minds

Guitar and Drum Trainer is the ultimate musician's MP3 player to help increase practice time quality, improve playing faster and easier, or transcribe music.

Here are some ways that Guitar and Drum Trainer can help you:

Slow down music to practice and learn at your own pace.

Set loop points to practice only the parts of a song that you need to learn.

Pitch shift music to match your instrument's tuning.

Use the GDT Speed Trainer to gradually increase the music speed to build both accuracy and speed.

A full wave and zoomed wave form let you see the music that you are playing along to. Zoom in to the second.

Filter out unwanted musical parts with a powerful 31 band equalizer.

Shift the stereo balance to hear musical parts played in the left or right channels more clearly. Just double-click it to reset back to normal.

View real time EQ visualizations for a graphical intrepretation of the musical frequencies. Hover your mouse over the EQ visualizations to discover notes. Pause them and hover, or set tiny loop points and hover to find notes in music.

Choose your own color schemes for wave forms and EQ visualizations to match your personal style.

Open and play MP3, FLAC, WMA, OGG and WAV audio files.

Use the Count In feature to set playback delays that give you time to return to your drum kit, piano, or keyboard racks.

Adjust CPU controls for optimum performance of visualizations.

Control volume and gain seperately for complete volume control.

Save loops, EQ settings and color schemes for fast recall.

Save and open song configurations to continue practice sessions later.

Set preferences to work the way you feel most comfortable.

Language learners, dancers and vocalists can also use the same features to help them achieve their goals.

The rich feature set is carefully crafted to provide a smooth and easy user experience, while maintaining a high functionality for demanding professional musicians.

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Chord Miner
$22.99 - Charanga Ltd

Chord Miner is the ultimate chord reference and repertoire tool for all levels of guitarist.

With over 7,000 chords including multiple voicings of 41 chord types in every key you'll always be able to find the chord you need. Once you've found the chord you can easily see alternatives that would help you to create your own individual sound.

How many times have you played a chord that sounds great but you don't know what it's called? With the Chord Identifier feature you can solve the mystery and name any chord simply by clicking the fret positions on the interactive fretboard.

Being able to listen to the chords not only allows you to check and correct what you're playing, it makes it easy to compare different voicings and then to choose the one you want to play.

With the Chord Set feature you can create and store with full chord diagrams, a group of chords that go together. These may be a favourite chord progression or simply the set of chords used in a particular song. If you're working on a particular lesson with a teacher, you can see in one place all the chords you're supposed to be learning. Thousands of chord sets have already been created so you can easily download the chords used in the majority of popular songs.

Whatever your playing level, Chord Mine is a unique feature that connects the chords you're learning and playing to the same chords as they are used in thousands of the worlds most popular songs.

If you're a beginner and you've just learnt G, C, and D, Chord Mine will show you all the songs its possible to play with your 3 new chords. If you're an advanced player or teacher wishing to explore or explain the use of a complex chord or group of chords, Chord Mine will show you all the songs that use your example
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You can easily look at the chords favoured by particular bands and artists, get an insight into how they write songs, and use this knowledge in your own song-writing.

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Guitar Mode Maker 2
$14.99 - Two Brothers Software

Guitar Mode Maker 2.0. Easy to use graphical interface allows guitar players to learn to create and modify guitar scales, modes and chords. Initial installation comes with over 750 chords and scales to use. GMM 2.0 allows the user to hear what thier scales sound like, through computer speakers using three tones, guitar, 12-string guitar and piano. Save your scales with a new GS2 file, which is easily sent to your guitar or bass playing friends! GS2 file intechangeable through Guitar Mode Maker and Bass Guitar Mode Maker. Piano teachers will love GMM 2.0 as the scales will show up on a piano keyboard as well as the guitar fret board. Easily save and printout your scales in a text file! Initial use limited to 10 uses, registration allows for full use of all GMM 2.0 features.

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