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Beginners multimedia guitar course, CD-rom for PC/Mac
Learn to Play guitar - First Steps Left Handed version
• Guitar lessons especially developed for left handed absolute beginners • Learn to play electric or acoustic guitar - includes advice on buying a guitar • Teach yourself or your kids the first steps to playing the guitar • Kept simple by avoiding the most difficult chords • Guitar chords, scales and playing techniques and are explained in careful detail, left handed. • Left Handed version with chords and scales shown in left handed format. • Includes e-mail support
These guitar lessons are even helpful before you buy a guitar as they contain an interactive guide to the different types of guitars. If you can borrow a guitar, you can try the first few lessons to see how easy it to play. This course is also ideal if you have just bought your first guitar or you have bought a guitar as a gift for someone. This course teaches you the important first steps you will need to get your guitar playing off the ground.
These guitar lessons have been written to avoid the most difficult chords, scales and techniques in order to give the student the clearest and easiest start, it also makes it the ideal choice for a youngster.
Whilst this guitar course is very basic, it has the added strength of being a good starting place to continue through the GCH Guitar Academy award winning guitar course..
£7.99 FREE postage (UK)
Minimum system requirements
PC PC Win 98 / NT / XP /VISTA and Windows 7 P500, 128 MB RAM, 400MB of HDD(optional), 4 x CD or DVD-ROM, 16 bit sound card, 1024x768 video resolution
Mac Mac Power Mac G3 running OS 9.2 to OSX 128 MB RAM, 400MB of HDD (optional), 4 x DVD-ROM, 16 bit sound card, 1024x768 video resolution
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 all the illustrations are Left Handed. • interactive guitar exercises and lessons 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 guitar available. This is useful if you are thinking of buying a guitar, or want to know more about what 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 left handed chord chart 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 left handed scale chart 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 presentation 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 explains 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 apposed to a preprinted version of the documentation means you get the same material at a fraction of the price.
Also includes the e-books for unit one
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ABOUT US
GCH Guitar Academy was established in 1992, however the founder Gareth Hargreaves had been teaching, and playing in bands and as a studio artist since the 1980's. The course was developed to teach individuals, school classes and groups how to play the guitar. The course was developed because the commercially available material was and is so poor.
Combining the GCH Guitar Academy guitar course material with new multimedia technology, has produced a multimedia guitar method that cannot be beaten. We originally intended to pass the multimedia course on to a publisher to take over the sales and distribution. However we have remained the sole distributors of the course giving us the ability to provide far more personal customer support.
The multimedia course is now well established, having sold thousands of copies worldwide and having been featured in a number of high profile magazines, and the course continues to grow and improve.
The course has won numerous awards This are awarded for ease of install/uninstall, ease of use, quality and design of product and much more
Client testimonials
Email from Craig Stevens (UK) This is by far the best course I have used as it is straight forward and versatile, by that I mean you don’t have to sit in front of the computer in order to use it thanks to the fact you have broken down the course into bite size chunks you can print off and study away from the computer. It’s also good to know that you read and reply to emails sent and not rely on auto responders and frequently asked questions.
Email from Paul (UK) I have been trying off and on to learn to play guitar for a few years and decided at the age of 40 that I would bite the bullet and buy myself an American deluxe stratocaster and Fender amp and get serious. I could start a large fire with the guitar books and cd's that I have bought over the years and given up on, so I cannot express how fantastic and straight forward your course is. Last night I played for hours and it feels like I have 2 years of professional guitar lessons to work with not to mention saving the £20 per hour tutouring charges !!!! I can only say please quote me as a satisfied customer and get someone to market this great course through music shops. Keep up the good work.
Email from Bill (USA) Starting late in life, age 60, I began my quest for an education in guitar playing.Little knowing without proper guidance a person can very easily get lost, disgusted and disenchanted with it altogether. After two years, 6 expensive interactive programs, little structure and very sore fingers I have naught to show for it all save the ability to give Will The Circle Be Unbroken a decent lick. Since I started unpacking this program of yours I've been glued to this ole puter. I am fairly gnawing at the bits to work this thing. Thank you for your help from the masses like myself that have so little to work with yet wanting to accomplish so much. Your program really is great and I will definitely keep you abreast of my progress. Bill W.
Email from Kristy (USA) I absolutely love this Multimedia Guitar Course. I will recommend to everyone. It is very user friendly. A great product. Please let me know when Unit 2 becomes available because I wish to purchase that as well. Thanks so much for a great product. Kristy
Email from Mandy I'd just like to thank you for the terrific CD you have been very generous with your knowledge and hope you will be rewarded. On briefly looking it is well structured with very helpful tips of which I have been lacking. Thanks Again Mandy
Email from Kev I cant thank you enough for the DVD - I am 51 years old and have always wanted to play - bought a cheapo electric in my teens and got nowhere trying to teach myself. Now I can actually play a few songs on my Fender Strat copy! Thank you so much for a brilliant easy to learn tutorial.
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PAYMENT International customers should pay by PayPal or in UK pounds.
UK customers can pay by PayPal, cheque or postal orders. Postal orders or cheques should be in UK pounds and made out to G C Hargreaves and sent to the address provided on the invoice. Cheques will be cleared before the item is dispatched.
SHIPPING AND DISPATCH All items are normally dispatched within twenty-four hours of purchase or on the next working day. International customers International shipping is airmail, small package which usually take 5 and 10 working days, depending on the destination and time or year. UK customer Postage is by Royal Mail first class.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT is provided via e-mail and at our web site. We also offer help with the lessons, so if you get stuck with a lesson and need advice, feel free to email us and we will try to help you. NEW ... NEW ... We now offer Skype support.
RETURN POLICY Because of the nature of this product we have a NO REFUND POLICY. We will replace the item in the unlikely event that a CD-rom arrives with the client damaged or is faulty. However we will not give refunds. This policy is to protect ourselves from dishonest clients who copy the product and then returned it.
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