Intermediate Guitar Coach

Guitar Lessons that really make a difference

Having mastered the basics of guitar playing, you quickly realise what a versatile instrument the guitar is, and what a great many possibilities there are for further study and enjoyment.

Intermediate Guitar Coach from Charanga provides you with a vast range of songs and solos to help you to build up an impressive repertoire. At the same time you will increase your skill level and understanding in many new areas.

An incredible array of multimedia features, including over 100 video clips, real audio ‘minus 1’ backing tracks, variable speed practice tracks and Guitar Karaoke tracks, ensure that you’ll enjoy every aspect of playing and learning and get all the help you need to progress smoothly

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Guitar Coach software has been reviewed extensively since its launch and the unanimous view of the reviewers is that both the acoustic and electric software is of the very highest quality. It has recently been awarded Millennium Product status by the Design Council of Great Britain in recognition of its innovative technology and success in teaching people of all ages and abilities how to play the guitar.

With Intermediate Guitar Coach you can learn great songs and improve your playing at any time and in the comfort of your own home. You get all the lessons, videos and backing tracks that you need and all for the price of one session with a teacher!

The Advantages of Multimedia

• Learn at your own pace
  
• Learn in your own space
  
• Refer back to lessons as many times as you like
  
• Six months of lessons for the price of a lesson with a teacher
  
• Play the songs you learn with a real audio backing band
  
• Video and audio synchronised with the score
  
• Practice loops let you select part of the score and loop it
  
• Interactive Digital Tuner keeps you perfectly in tune
  
• Over 100 videos including full-length versions of every track, and Charanga’s famous ‘behind the strings’ view
  

What will I learn?

Intermediate Guitar Coach explores 3 exciting areas of guitar playing..

Cool Songs
Learn to play, sing, and perform cool songs by famous bands and artists including The Eagles, Radiohead, Black Crowes, Everly Brothers, Squeeze and Robbie Williams.

These songs provide you with a wonderfully varied repertoire of guitar/vocal classics that you can perform on your own or with the Guitar Karaoke and real audio minus 1 backing tracks provided.

Flatpicking and Accompanying
Explore the rich musical traditions of Blues, Folk and Country and enjoy learning and playing songs made famous by great artists like Johnny Cash, Woodie Guthrie, Joan Baez, Chet Atkins, and Joe Cocker.

Learn how to use embellishments and inflections to re-enforce the character of traditional music and explore the possibilities of altered tunings and chords.

Solos
Enjoy playing impressive Fingerstyle solos in American, Irish, English Folk and Classical styles.

These attractive performance pieces, which you can play alone or with a real audio orchestral backing track, are great to play and perform at any occasion.

Intermediate Guitar Coach provides you with all the software tools you need to lean in a fast and fun way.

Video Coach

To use Intermediate Guitar Coach you need a multimedia PC with:

• Pentium IBM compatible PC 233MHz or faster
  
• 256-colour monitor supporting 800 x 600 screen resolution
  
• Windows™ 98/ME/2000/XP operating system
  
• 16-bit Sound Blaster™ compatible sound card
  
• 8x CD-ROM Drive
  
• 64MB of RAM