This groundbreaking DVD teaches you all you need to know to become a one-piece rhythm section, combining percussive techniques and chord progressions! Steve Trovato and Richard Smith cover a wide range of styles including Rock, Blues and Latin, showing you how to transform your rhythm playing by incorporating new ideas and patterns into your arsenal of techniques.

Check out this revolutionary platform for musical creativity and you won't look back. Songtrix Gold 3.0 supports musicians in the same flexible and open-ended way that a word processor supports writers. Compose a chord sequence and apply styles to produce a professional musical arrangement in seconds. Or create your own masterpiece from scratch, using intuitive events like strums and drum rolls for rapid drafting and refinement of musical ideas. Explore new and original harmonic progressions for your music, with integrated tools that bring the power of music theory directly into the creative process. Compile and print staff notation effortlessly, then take your completed songs to the world by publishing them securely on the ChordWizard Network.

See, Hear and Understand - ChordWizard Music Theory 3.0 contains How Music Works, a comprehensive suite of multimedia tutorials that explain music in clear, simple language you can relate to.

Packed with over 118 topics, and illustrated with 350 diagrams and 750 demonstration sounds, ChordWizard Music Theory 3.0 is approachable for beginners. It starts with the very basics of sound and music, but it also advances to topics which are valuable for professional musicians.
You will learn how to use all of the musical concepts in practical ways with your own accompaniment, improvisation and songwriting activities.

Just as you use a word processor to write your mail, you can write, play, record, print and publish your music with Pizzicato, a music notation software. Yes, your notes, your music on paper with a professional quality. At home. Before going further: remove any idea related to music being difficult or composition being impossible to learn without 10 years of study, because…

The legendary Josh White (1914-1969) is widely considered to be one of the most influential blues and folk artists of all time. His singing and guitar playing electrified a generation of fans with his dazzling technique and passionate renditions of blues, folk songs and ballads. We're delighted to present this DVD on the songs and guitar of Josh White by his son, Josh White, Jr., an accomplished actor, singer, performer and teacher. He knows his father's repertoire intimately and can replicate it with great accuracy. On this lesson he skillfully communicates Josh White's unique guitar style in a way that is easy to follow and accessible for all players. Learning guitarists with a knowledge of basic chords will be able to learn arrangements to his classic songs, along with blues chords, bass riffs, turnarounds, strumming techniques and more.

This unintimidating video presents the basics of playing guitar in an easy-to-follow format. By simply watching the instructor on screen and following along, you can learn to form chords, fingerpick and strum in different patterns, and play songs in a variety of styles—all without reading music! Guitar for Dummies provides step-by-step instruction of all the skills needed to become an accomplished guitar player. You start by learning to play in tune and in rhythm and then move on to left-hand chords and right-hand strumming patterns. From there, you apply these techniques to several different musical styles, picking up tips and tricks on playing authentically in each style. Along the way, you learn how to develop your own practice routine and focus in on the areas you want to improve.

This unintimidating video presents the basics of playing guitar in an easy-to-follow format. By simply watching the instructor on screen and following along, you can learn to form chords, fingerpick and strum in different patterns, and play songs in a variety of styles—all without reading music! Guitar for Dummies provides step-by-step instruction of all the skills needed to become an accomplished guitar player. You start by learning to play in tune and in rhythm and then move on to left-hand chords and right-hand strumming patterns. From there, you apply these techniques to several different musical styles, picking up tips and tricks on playing authentically in each style. Along the way, you learn how to develop your own practice routine and focus in on the areas you want to improve.

Here's an easy and fun way for beginners to play favourite bluegrass tunes. Happy teaches all the basic techniques and helps guitarists begin to build their own repertoire. He covers pick technique, elementary theory, song accompaniment, and how to play instrumental solos. Guaranteed the quickest and easiest way to get into playing the real country guitar! Happy Traum will get you started in this popular American guitar style and get you ready to move on to more advanced studies. You'll learn to handle a flatpick, play a basic scale, then master these techniques: accompanying songs in straight and waltz time; picking out melodies while strumming chords; adding bass runs, hammer-ons, pull-offs and other variations, and playing the famous bluegrass "G Run." Songs: "John Hardy," "Bury Me Beneath The Willow," "All The Good Times Are Past And Gone," "East Virginia," "Wildwood Flower," "Mama Don't 'Low," "Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms."

By moving one finger to a different fret, a familiar chord takes on a whole new quality! Move a chord shape to a different position on the neck and you have a rich, advanced-sounding progression! Welcome to Artie Traum s lesson in how to use chords to enhance basic folk, country, blues and rock songs. Artie has designed the perfect lesson for anyone who s looking for ways to make guitar accompaniments come alive. He focuses on the basic chord shapes you probably use all the time (D, G, E and C) and shows you how you can transform their sound by incorporating altered notes, open strings, bass lines, barre chords and a variety of other techniques that will help you create beautiful accompaniments. So, if your songs are sounding a little ordinary, or you want to jump-start a new one you re writing, this world-class player s easy solutions will simply make them sound better. Artie s lesson is fun, relaxed and filled with numerous guitar tips, musical ideas and easy songs, including Sloop John B, Corrina, Worried Man Blues, Barbed Wire, The Water is Wide and Diamond Joe.

Trainer: David Holt | Studio: Homespun Tapes | ASIN: B00021TDQY | Run Time: 45 minutes[/center]
You've bought a brand new banjo. You take it home and pull it out of the case. Now what? Well, you put this lesson in your player, tune up, learn the parts of the banjo... and before you know it, you're playing and singing the traditional ballad Tom Dooley right along with David. Add the "guitar strum" and "clawhammer" style to "Old Dan Tucker," "My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains" and "Oh, Susanna" and you're off to the right start, ready for years of musical adventures on your new instrument. With his easy-to-follow, good-humored manner, David Holt can get anyone started on 5-string Banjo. Here he teaches the parts of the banjo, how to hold it and get it in tune. Beginners will learn simple chords & strums.

This unintimidating video presents the basics of playing guitar in an easy-to-follow format. By simply watching the instructor on screen and following along, you can learn to form chords, fingerpick and strum in different patterns, and play songs in a variety of styles—all without reading music! Guitar for Dummies provides step-by-step instruction of all the skills needed to become an accomplished guitar player. You start by learning to play in tune and in rhythm and then move on to left-hand chords and right-hand strumming patterns. From there, you apply these techniques to several different musical styles, picking up tips and tricks on playing authentically in each style. Along the way, you learn how to develop your own practice routine and focus in on the areas you want to improve.

Finale PrintMusic is the fast, easy way to bring your music to life with professional results.
* Arrange full ensembles and extract individual parts
* Play your music with professional sounds and nuance
* Share your music with iPod-ready MP3 files
From the creators of Finale®, the world’s leading music notation software, PrintMusic is perfect for arrangers, composers, teachers, band and choir directors, church musicians, students, and other musicians.
Spend more time making music and less time learning software.

[center]MAGIX Music Maker 15 Premium is the easy-to-use music production software solution: If you've never made music, you can still get started right away and make your own songs. If you are are a musician, you will love all the software tools available to polish your masterpiece.

A multitrack tablature editor for guitar, banjo and bass.

Guitar Pro is the ultimate workshop dedicated to the beginner as well as the advanced guitar player. It is aimed at helping the user progress, compose, or simply accompany himself with the guitar.

Guitar Pro has been designed for 4 to 7 strings instruments (guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, ...).

With Guitar Pro you'll be able to learn how to play, compose and improve your guitar skills.

Dream Computer piano will turn your computer into a piano, do not need any musical knowledge, do not need to remember which key representatives of the notes, as long as the will to type, you can play professional piano repertoire.Unique support system allows you to play easy chords and music scores to deal with the paragraphs quickly, without having to deal.Scoring system would be intelligent to play for your score, each time at a glance the progress.Generate key sequence from MIDI file automatically.

Dream Computer piano will turn your computer into a piano, do not need any musical knowledge, do not need to remember which key representatives of the notes, as long as the will to type, you can play professional piano repertoire.Unique support system allows you to play easy chords and music scores to deal with the paragraphs quickly, without having to deal.Scoring system would be intelligent to play for your score, each time at a glance the progress.Generate key sequence from MIDI file automatically.

Learn to play the guitar using this quick and easy guide. Whether you dream of playing classical guitar, a B.B. King lick, or just the opening bars to "Stairway to Heaven," this book can get you there. This easy-to-use guide introduces the beginning guitarist to all styles of playing, from classical to jazz and pop. Using basic exercises and a selection of popular tunes, it shows how to do everything from reading tablature and chord diagrams to performing simple accompaniment. This book is designed for the child or adult beginner who wants a "user-friendly" introduction to the most popular musical instrument. It contains numerous sidebars and illustrations, making learning the guitar fun and easy. Z Features exercises in all styles from classical to rock and jazz Z Includes checklists of popular books, videos and instrument dealers, and tips on purchasing and maintaining your instrument. Frederick Noad is an expert guitar teacher and author of dozens of guitar thods, including The Virtual Guitarist, Solo Guitar Playing and Playing the Guitar, all from Schirmer Books. He is the inventor of Speed Score, the computer notation software and is universally known as a master teacher of the instument.

D'Accord Guitar Chord Dictionary 3.0 for Windows (95, 98, Me, 2000, XP) is the new version of the best chord dictionary software! Useful to beginners and skilled guitarists.

With this software you will learn everything about chords and scales. Browse, play and print guitar chord positions! You can also import chords from lyrics that you find on music websites. It works for all popular stringed instruments!

New Features:
* New and comprehensive scales module
* Multi-Instrument: 4, 5 and 6 string instruments and also customized tunings!
* Improved chord dictionary
* Improved printing features

Have you ever dreamed of the program that is dedicated only to the greatest ever band - The Beatles? Tired of seeking that kind of software? The Beatles 4ever! is really what you need. This is the most attractive Beatles multimedia center. The Beatles 4ever! comes with the complete Beatles UK & US discography. You can add lyrics to the song database and instantly search it. You can add music file of any format to the music database, create your own playlist and listen to it. You can do what you need, and even more!

The Beatles 4ever! is full of other useful features:
1) easy-to-use song database manager;
2) powerful editor (for adding lyrics, chords, tabs, etc.);
3) advanced mediaplayer (with sound effects and playlist support);
4) convenient music organizer;
5) complete UK & US discography;
6) Web-style navigation and hyperlinks;
7) nice interface (with sidebar);
8) attractive skins support;
9) useful game;
10) song search;

Easy Chords is the first and only plug-in that automatically identifies chords and guitar tabs to absolutely any song, right inside your Winamp.

You can even hear the chords mixed into the song as it's playing!

Check out this revolutionary platform for musical creativity and you won't look back. Songtrix Gold 3.0 supports musicians in the same flexible and open-ended way that a word processor supports writers. Compose a chord sequence and apply styles to produce a professional musical arrangement in seconds. Or create your own masterpiece from scratch, using intuitive events like strums and drum rolls for rapid drafting and refinement of musical ideas.
Explore new and original harmonic progressions for your music, with integrated tools that bring the power of music theory directly into the creative process. Compile and print staff notation effortlessly, then take your completed songs to the world by publishing them securely on the ChordWizard Network.

Automatic Styles
With styles, Songtrix can turn a simple chord sequence into professional arrangements for backing tracks, improvisation practice or rapid composition.
A diverse set of musical styles is supplied, and these can be mixed across tracks for literally millions of style combinations!
You can use substyles with Intro, Fill-In and Ending patterns to create rich and seamless performances of the finished work.
The process is flexible and transparent, so you can choose which parts of the song will use styles, and see the musical events that Songtrix generates.
You can progressively override and customize style events to get exactly the sound you are looking for.

Compose Yourself
Songtrix is also a blank canvas for developing your own musical themes. Use the rich palette of musical events to produce your original compositions or arrangements from scratch.
Audition and select chords from the menu, then design your own rhythms to play them with.
Tracks can split into repeating segments to automatically propagate your drum and rhythm patterns throughout the song.
Take full control of the creative process by adding and editing musical events within Songtrix, or with an attached Midi keyboard (or other instrument).
You can easily apply playing techniques - such as sustain, slide, pitch bend and vibrato - to achieve a stunningly realistic performance.

Music MasterWorks music editing software: create, play, record, edit and print music with this easy to use music editor. Now with voice-to-note and singing analysis. Record from your MIDI piano/keyboard or use the configurable quick keys and mouse with this music program. Choose between staff and piano views to make your own music, and print both. This unique music program also makes a great gift.

Make your own music with Music MasterWorks:
Create and Print sheet music.
Easy music editing & printing in either staff notation or piano roll scores.
Point and click mouse interface to make writing music simple.
Voice-to-Note conversion. Just sing into your microphone to create music!
A singing lesson feature using a tune you select.
'Basic Mode' so you don't need to worry about the complexities of writing music.
MIDI note & audio wave recording and playback.
Saves to standard MIDI ('.mid' file) notational format, can be opened in almost all other music programs.
Convert your MIDI notational song to a wave file (so you can burn your song to a CD).
Configurable keys for the music editor, to write music quickly with the keyboard.
Instrument Selection.
Special Effect MIDI Controller editing (Expression, Sustain, Timbre, Brightness, etc.)

Digital Music Mentor is a software that helps you get the guitar chords and bass tabs for any song. It even shows you how to play the chords! It is so simple to use.

Digital Music Mentor can process any music, from any genre, and reveal the chords and bass tabs more accurately than any other program. Our goal is to provide every customer with the opportunity of playing along with your favourite songs and take your instrumental skills to a higher level!

Features
·Reveal the chords
·Reveal the bass tabs
·Find "hidden" tones
·Slow down
·How to play the chords
·Loop selected sections

Encore is the standard application in professional music notation.
Its powerful transcribing and editing capabilities help musicians of all levels get their ideas into print. Fast, accurate, and easy to use, Encore allows you to create beautiful printouts of your scores - using up to 64 separate staves.

Whether you're creating motion picture scores, orchestral arrangements, choir songbooks, or teaching music in school, Encore is second to none.

Whether you play directly into Encore or transcribe your MIDI files, you get accurate notation and beautiful printouts every time. You can extract parts, transpose for different instruments, and play your music as you originally conceived it. Encore graphically displays and plays back dynamic marks, repeats, multiple endings, pedal marks, or any MIDI controller.

Flexible Page Layout and Guitar Tablature Expand Your Options
Encore scores can be fine-tuned with a simple move of the mouse.

On-screen palettes let you enter dozens of marks and symbols. Lyrics and text are easily added. Powerful features such as page layout control, TrueType® and PostScript® support, polyphonic part voicing
, and editable expressions palettes provide an inexhaustible set of capabilities for presenting your music on paper. Instantly transcribe your music into guitar tablature with correct fingering and guitar fret diagrams.

Music MasterWorks music editing software: create, play, record, edit and print music with this easy to use music editor. Now with voice-to-note and singing analysis. Record from your MIDI piano/keyboard or use the configurable quick keys and mouse with this music program. Choose between staff and piano views to make your own music, and print both. This unique music program also makes a great gift.

Make your own music with Music MasterWorks:
o Create and Print sheet music.
o Easy music editing & printing in either staff notation or piano roll scores.
o Point and click mouse interface to make writing music simple.
o Voice-to-Note conversion. Just sing into your microphone to create music!
o A singing lesson feature using a tune you select.
o 'Basic Mode' so you don't need to worry about the complexities of writing music.
o MIDI note & audio wave recording and playback.
o Saves to standard MIDI ('.mid' file) notational format, can be opened in almost all other music programs.
o Convert your MIDI notational song to a wave file (so you can burn your song to a CD).
o Configurable keys for the music editor, to write music quickly with the keyboard.
o Instrument Selection.
o Special Effect MIDI Controller editing (Expression, Sustain, Timbre, Brightness, etc.)
o Filtered editing and viewing.

The most powerful guitar
chord dictionary in the world!

With More than 1 Billion Chords available for you, with thousands charted chord variations. You can even get impossible chord combination structures, or the most difficult chords in the world. Better yet, you can transform any chord position to an easier chord to better suit your ability.
Finally: you can type in any chord, click the button and learn hundreds of chord positions instantly!
You won't find a chord dictionary like Billion Chords anywhere else on the internet.

Billion Chords Features List:
• Ability to find any chord possible
• Ability to construct any chord by choosing the abbreviations on a list
• Ability to listen the chords sound
• Ability to change the sound by choosing an instrument
• List of all synonyms of each chord
• Drawing of the chord along the virtual fret diagram
• You can choose a common tuning
• You can change to your personal tuning
• Find chords and omit barre chords
• Display only easy chords

D'Accord iChords 2.0 is a harmony (chords) transcription software. It recognizes chords from CDs and audio files (MP3, WMA and WAV) and presents them on a virtual guitar or keyboard. With iChords you will be able to learn and play the chords of any song, without having to search for tablatures and sheet music. It's fast and easy to use, after opening a song file the software automatically processes and extracts the chords!

Check out the unique features that iChords 2.0 offers to you:
# You can edit the song adding chords and lyrics in an easy and fun way;
# Export songs as videos files! This enables you to have the song, chords and lyrics everywhere in your iPod, MP4 player or mobile phone;
# View and Print your chords also on the keyboard mode;
# Choose the level of complexity and learn in the way that suits your skills: easy, normal and difficult chords!
# Works with DRM-enabled WMA files found in online music stores.

Include:
D'Accord iChords v2.0: Learn the chords from your MP3 files and watch them on your iPod or mobile!
D'Accord Metronome v1.0: Play and learn with our full-featured free metronome!
D'Accord Easy Tuner v3.0: Tune your guitar or other stringed instrument now !
D'Accord Drums Player v1.0: Learn how to play with the virtual drums and MIDI files!
D'Accord Mobile Chords v1.0: Get your chords everywhere on your Handheld!
D'Accord Personal Guitarist v1.2: Editor, Player, Chord Dictionary, Metronome and Tuner!
D'Accord Guitar Chord Dictionary v3.0: Learn, hear, transpose and print guitar chords !
D'Accord Keyboard Chord Dictionary v1.0: The best chord encyclopedia for Keyboard and Piano.

D'Accord iChords
D'Accord iChords 2.0 is a harmony (chords) transcription software. It recognizes chords from CDs and audio files (MP3, WMA and WAV) and presents them on a virtual guitar or keyboard. With iChords you will be able to learn and play the chords of any song, without having to search for tablatures and sheet music. It's fast and easy to use, after opening a song file the software automatically processes and extracts the chords!
With iChords 2.0 you will be able to play any song!
iChords is based on D'Accord's unique audio processing technology.