The eMedia Guitar For Dummies CD-ROM is a fun and easy way to learn guitar quickly. Learn to play acoustic or electric guitar at your own pace with techniques demonstrated in full-motion videos. Have fun playing along with live recorded songs or MIDI tracks that you can slow down or speed up. Interactive Educational Software includes over 80 step-by-step video-enhanced lessons, over 50 songs with recorded audio and variable-speed MIDI tracks, over 40 high-quality videos with full-screen option and animated fretboard displays fingering positions as the music plays. Your teacher is professional guitarist Kevin Garry, Ph.D., from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The excellent teaching he offers in this method will help you become a good guitarist. Discover how to string and tune your guitar, play simple chords, full chords, power chords and slash chords and use different strumming styles, such as folk, rock, blues, as well as syncopated rhythms.