Whiter Shade

‘THE LEAD GUITARIST is a guitar course on autorun CD-ROM, which you simply insert into

your computer’s CD, or DVD-ROM drive. It’s aimed at guitarists who, having mastered strumming, and learned the basic chords and keys, would now like to learn to play lead. It uses no musical notation of any kind. Many people do not want to take formal music lessons and have no interest in learning how to read music. This course is for those people who want to learn to play the guitar by ear.

1.) A menu comes up with the first page telling you what kind of guitar to buy if you haven’t already got one.

2.) The next page is the tuner – you click on the button for the corresponding string and hear guitar string played.

3.) The next page explains the rudiments of guitar: What is a chord, what is a key? Which chords go together. Which chords should be learned first.

4.) The chord reference page shows the chords and plays them when you click on the corresponding button. It’s complete, you won’t have to go out and buy a chord book 

5.) The lessons page has 11 interactive lessons.

Click on the video button and a video of a professional guitar tutor plays giving the lesson.Other buttons activate drum rhythms, show and play chord structures and the like 

6) Other Stuff: This page has a lesson on how to use a cappo and transposing, as well as other information you will find useful

 This is a CD-ROM and is designed for PC’s running Windows, with a CD-ROM drive.