Electric Guitar Coach
September 7th, 2005
Electric Guitar Coach
Manufacturer: Navarre
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Electric GuitarCoach does exactly what it says on the box: it introduces electric guitar techniques–riffs, soloing and chord positions–and gives a graded series of lessons that build towards playing a selection of popular songs that include Black Sabbath’s old warhorse “Paranoid” and the Bryan Adams’ “Run to You”. The easy-to-use interface will be familiar to anyone who has used the acoustic GuitarCoach, as will the on-screen tabulature and video clips that show both right and left hand positions. As with its acoustic counterpart, this is a real improvement on the many instructional videos on the market. But for the absolute beginner it should be seen as a supplement to learning with a good teacher, not as a substitute.–Mark Walker
Problems Running Under Win XPI’m just learning to play so as yet cannot comment on the quality of the coaching in this software.
What I can comment on is the dreadful problems I had getting it to run under Windows XP. It installed no problem. You then need to have the disc in the drive to run it. I clicked on the icon and got an almost endles variety of error messages. It would not run. It froze XP almost every time forcing a re-start. I’m a very experienced computer user, but nothing I tried worked. I even tried it on a completely fresh XP install with no other apps installed, it still wouldn’t run. I called the tech support line and they were unable to provide an answer. Apart from the usual lame, “we don’t have a clue - so it may be a virus” excuse. My system more than met the minimum requirements and is clean and virus free. I eventually solved the problem by mounting an image of the disc on a virtual CD Drive on the hard drive. It now runs perfectly. But no way would it run from my CD or DVD hardware drives as it’s supposed to.
One thing to note, this is old style 16 bit software! It even talks about running it under Windows 3.1 in the leaflet!!!
I only hope it helps me learn to play better than it runs “from the box”.
I’m also still waiting, a week on, for the promised return call from their tech support.
I hope you don’t experience the problems I did, but if you do I hope my solution will be of help.
Electric Guitar Coach
This software is EXCELLENT!
After hours of searching the internet looking for some good guitar software ive finally found it.
There are 5 Different levels of difficulty to tackle which will leave you sitting at my cumputer actually “Playing” for hours not wanting to put your guitar down. Popular songs with Video makes things so much easier. You can even play at half tempo until you get used to playing and then play at full tempo.
With nice easy to follow lessens in sections anyone will be able to follow and make quick progress with this program!
I cant say enough good things about it, my playing has come on really well and quickly i cant wait to complete it and get Intermediate Guitar Coach.
Fantastic
I was too embarassed to go and have guitar lessons because I was an absolute beginer - this program has been brilliant - after only two weeks I feel confident enough to go into guitar shops and try out guitars (very intimidating normally)
Recomended to anyone who wants to learn, very very good at what it does. The interface is a bit dated but - hell if you have a guitar in your hands who cares 
Guitar Coach haphazard
Poor for beginner
