The Master Flatpick Guitar Solos

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The Master Flatpick Guitar Solos program is a fully-featured interactive music program with professional flatpick arrangements of 50 songs. Each song features a flatpick guitar solo played by top studio musician Marty Cutler, as well as accompanying piano (comping), bass, drums, and strings. There are almost 3 hours of flatpick guitar soloing in this program.

The purpose of this program is to help you to learn the art of flatpick improvisation. The student who wants to learn to improvise flatpick music is usually told to listen to some flatpick solos, and learn from them.

Unfortunately, the student often encounters some obstacles after receiving this advice.

Many solos that are written out are of very advanced material, beyond the playing ability of the student. For example, the student may struggle to learn 16 bars of a complex solo based on a modal scale, but finds it difficult to widely apply this information to more mainstream flatpick songs with typical chord progressions.

All of these solos are "mainstream" playing, based on typical chord progressions.
Most of the soloing uses eighth notes, or triplets, so it is playable by most musicians.
Each song contains 3 or more full choruses of music.
Optional guide-notes display scale tones in the correct key. Note names are provided to aid in note/fret recognition.
You can see the solos on the on-screen fretboard, hear the solos, slow them down, or step through them one note at a time.
You can play along with the accompanying instruments as you learn the solos.
The solos may be printed out for further study.

How to use the program - This program contains flatpick guitar solos covering various styles, from easy-to-play to advanced phrases. We suggest that you learn the phrases by first watching the On-screen guitar fretboard, while the notation scrolls by. You'll notice that the notation also contains TAB. To study a particular phrase, the program includes advanced looping features. You can loop a number of bars, what you see on the screen, or the entire song. If the song is playing too quickly, you can adjust the tempo, or even the key.

Includes Band-in-a-Box Files - As an additional bonus, we've included the 50 songs in Band-in-a-Box format, free with this standalone product. If you're a Band-in-a-Box user, you'll find the songs in the FGSOLO50 directory in your main install directory.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows� 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

16 MB RAM

PC Soundcard or MIDI module.

CD-ROM Drive.