The Guitar Encyclopedia for Windows

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By Mussida Music Publishing

Learn how to play the guitar on your own or improve how you play now.

Would you like to learn how to play the guitar on your own or improve how you play now? Would you like to be able to express yourself more confidently through your instrument? The ultimate method for those who want to improve their technique, expressiveness, and personality in playing the guitar has finally arrived. A definitive course that reveals all the secrets and techniques you need to improve, evolve, and leave your mark through the experience of CPM Milan teachers and under the guidance of one of the greatest guitarists and teachers of all time, Franco Mussida. You can now find all the technical help you need in The Electric and Acoustic Guitar Encyclopedia--the essential tool for cultivating your passion for music. Because the guitar lessons are organized progressively by difficulty and materials, it doesn't matter whether you are a beginner or an expert. You can study various performance techniques as well as modern styles and interpretations of guitar playing - all on your own time and at your own pace. This revolutionary software also offers you the opportunity to observe your teachers in videos, slow down the recordings, set loops, record and print the lessons, and even send recordings of your performances to the teachers for an evaluation. All this will be available to you whenever you want, any day, any time. Select an exercise, observe and enlarge the details, listen to different sounds, observe every movement, slow down the bases, and follow the scrolling musical score; it follows you, you just play. Learning to play the guitar has never been so easy. Each exercise, study, and piece is recorded in a variety of formats: audio, MIDI, video, text, and graphic.

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GENERAL

Release: July 20, 2009

Latest update: September 3, 2015

Version: 1.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 2000
Windows 2003
Windows NT
Windows 98
Windows 10
Windows Vista
Windows ME
Windows XP

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 3,595

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Great idea. Tragic flaw.
joeosakaAugust 22, 2009
Pros
An extensive amount of material available to learn about playing the guitar. The title says it all. This is truly an encyclopedic amount of information.
Cons
The window size is locked. Like some Flash apps, you cannot expand the window to full screen. Cannot "play along" with the video clips, because the sheet music does not scroll along. Everything is just too damn small!
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Why on Earth, in this day and age of big roomy HD quality monitors, would any software designer limit the size of their application window? Particularly one that relies so heavily on reading from the screen and seeing what the people in the videos are playing. This is the tragically annoying and inexcusable flaw of Guitar Encyclopedia 1.0. I have the Syncmaster 23.6 inch monitor. When I first popped open GE 1.0, the application's window barely took up half the screen. The window is non-expandable and locked at around 1020x740 pixels. Starting at this size for the main window means everything else is only going to be smaller. None of these items could be expanded to a larger more comfortable size: VIDEO CLIPS: 320 pixels wide SHEET MUSIC: Only 3 bars can be seen, and the music only scrolls when playing the midi-clip, not with the video clips. This means that you will be constantly taking your hand off the guitar to drag the mouse to the next section of the music. Horrible. STUDY NOTES: Open in (once again) a non-expandable box only 600 pixels wide. You can't change the size of the text. Serious eye-strain. SHEET MUSIC: Open in the same non-expandable 600 pixel box as PDF files. In addition, unlike other guitar teaching software, you cannot highlight a particular section of the music and play it over and over. You can only jump to a point in the music, and then play it from there. Perhaps the software designers would argue that all the sheet music is printable. But why did I buy SOFTWARE to learn guitar if I have to burn through an encyclopedia's worth of ink and paper on my printer? What a waste. I wouldn't have to print anything out if I could just expand the damn window to see an A4 sized sheet. No luck here. In short, for something released in late 2009 and at a cost of $200, Guitar Encyclopedia 1.0 falls well short of the features and flexibility of other teaching software published five years ago for a fraction of the price (eMedia's $60 Guitar Method series anyone?) Really excited when I found this, but desperately disappointed in its limitations. Try the demo and see for yourself, but save your cash and hope for a better version someday.
clear,simple,progressive,quality,very innovative
francemuxJuly 21, 2009
Pros
Fantastic! This is the best mnethod in the world, finally! There are various performance techniques as well as modern styles and interpretations of guitar playing, and you can make a loop or recording your exercise. Very good the quality of contents
Cons
A little bit difficoult to find my audio recordings, but i'v writing a mail to assistance and quiqly i'v recive the answer.
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