Great tool for self learning
Jan 11, 2009
agfillion
from Coeur d Alene, Idaho,
Rating:4.0
I bought this software for my husband who has had some basic guitar lessons in the past from a tutor. He decided he wanted to get a guitar and learn again so that was his gift this Christmas.
He says that the program is very easy to learn from. He stated that even if he didn't know anything about guitar he would have been able to learn from this software. As it is, he is fairly flying through the lessons and picking up a lot of new chords and frets that he didn't know before. He likes that you can see the fret or chord finger placement and you can also hear what it is supposed to sound like so you can compare how you're strumming is compared to the real thing.
The songs that it has are actually links to the internet that connect you to an individuals recording that will instruct you to play the song and give you verbal instructions as to what cords to play, etc. My husband says this works well. He's been forcing himself to do this in the early lessons for practice of the cords even t...