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eMedia Music Corporation is a music software developer dedicated to producing high-quality, multimedia music instruction software. Formed in 1994 by Adrian Burton, formerly a manager at Microsoft Multimedia Publishing, eMedia is now the world’s leading publisher of music education software and DVDs. eMedia’s titles have been critically acclaimed by sources such as Newsweek, Guitar One magazine and PC Magazine and have been endorsed by guitar legends such as Nancy Wilson of Heart and Peter Frampton, who hosted a famous, nationally broadcasted infomercial for eMedia Guitar Method.

As computers and digital learning devices have increased in use, eMedia remains the most successful provider of digital tools and content for music education. With interactive multimedia capabilities incorporating audio, video, pitch recognition, 3D graphics and user participation – eMedia software surpasses any traditional printed method of education and video-only lessons. eMedia titles are currently available for Macintosh, Windows (PC) and the Apple iPad.

The company has many innovative technologies it has introduced to make learning music easier.

eMEDIA INTERACTIVE MUSIC TECHNOLOGIES INCLUDE:

Animated Fretboard/Keyboard/Fingerboard

Is a 3D visualization of instrument fingerings and techniques used in the lessons and songs. This also displays user input via the Note Tracker

Finger Tracker

Allows the student to see the melody notes they are playing on their instrument by recognizing the pitch being played into the computer's microphone/line-in and displaying it on the Animated Fretboard/Keyboard/Fingerboard in real time as they play. Note that Chord display is available with MIDI keyboard input.

Note Tracker

Shows the input from the microphone (or MIDI device with Piano and Keyboard titles) as music notation in a separate window so the user can see the note they are playing or singing.

Interactive Feedback

Uses Note Tracker technology to show the note the user plays or sings as part of the current lesson or song. Notes are color-coded to show when the user is flat, sharp or hitting the correct note.

Performance Evaluation

Performance Evaluation scores a student's ability to play a song or lesson as a percentage of correctly played/sung pitches and rhythms in a piece. The feature is exceptionally effective when used with a MIDI keyboard. There are academic versions of the Piano and Keyboard Method which allows this to be used as piano software for school MIDI labs so a music teacher can teach a role class the basics of music and piano/keyboard skills.

ALL eMEDIA TITLES STRESS


 * Qualified Instructors


 * Complete Instrumental Methods


 * Interactive Music Technology


 * Popular Songs

The company has been recognized with several prestigious awards. eMedia has been honored with a Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 award recognizing Washington state’s 50 fastest-growing technology companies as well as the Puget Sound Business Journal Washington’s 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies. In addition, eMedia they has been named one of the state’s Top 100 software companies for two years in a row by Washington CEO magazine and one of the state’s Top 40 software companies. Impressively, the company has also won the best music software award from the renowned Music and Sound Retailer Magazine for an unprecedented 5 years in a row!

eMedia is dedicated to producing and distributing innovative software with broad appeal to an international audience. Their products are currently distributed throughout North America and countries on every continent around the globe (see our list of international distributors). German and French versions of many titles are available from eMedia international distributors.

The company also distributes other music-oriented titles from around the world, including products by PG Music, IPE, Arobas, and MakeMusic.

PRODUCT FAMILIES:

'''Guitar Method'"

eMedia’s flagship titles are the best-selling eMedia Guitar Method and eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method cross-platform guitar lesson software (Win/Mac).

Piano and Keyboard Method

Piano and Keyboard Method and the follow up eMedia Intermediate Piano and Keyboard Method were the first complete multimedia piano and keyboard lesson titles. This series features eMedia Performance Evaluation technologies which score a student's ability to play a song or lesson. The feature is particularly effective with a MIDI keyboard. There are academic versions of the Piano and Keyboard Method which allows this to be used as piano software for school MIDI labs.

Singing Method

eMedia has introduced a Singing Method to be shipped in the Spring-Summer of 2013. It features pitch recognition so a user can see their singing accuracy and Performance Evaluation to score them singing a song or exercise.

Interactive Rock Guitar

Interactive Rock Guitar, teaches rock guitar techniques including power chords, the blues scale and some lead guitar plus guitar tricks like string bending, how to use a whammy bar and rock guitar basics that include distortion and effects pedals. Popular songs are used to learn and practice the techniques.

Bass Method

Bass Method was the first comprehensive multimedia bass tutorial available.

Guitar Songs

Is a collection of classic guitar hits that leverage eMedia interactive technologies to make them easier to learn.

Blues Guitar Legends

This title teaches blues songs, techniques and some history using the original artist recordings. eMedia interactive music technology uses a 3D Animated Fretboard to display techniques that are usually hard to visualize such as string bends and double-stops.

My Guitar/Electric Guitar/Piano/Violin

The eMedia “My” series presents a groundbreaking, enjoyable set of multimedia youth educational titles including: eMedia My Guitar, eMedia My Electric Guitar, eMedia My Piano and eMedia My Violin. These titles are specifically designed to teach kids ages 6 and up to learn musicianship on these popular instruments. Slightly more limited versions of these Macintosh/Windows music application are available as interactive DVD titles.

For Dummies

eMedia has a relationship with the For Dummies brand, and offers subsets of their Guitar, Rock Guitar, Keyboard, Singing and Bass Method products as part of the "For Dummies" titles.

DVD Titles

Some of the content from eMedia Methods are used in the Essential series of interactive DVDs. While not as full-featured as the Method software, they push the bounds of what is available in DVD interactivity to provide a more engaging learning experience than simple video playback.