Best Emedia in 2026

Interactive Educational Software

Over 50 Songs With Recorded Audio & Variable-speed Midi Tracks

Interactive Feedback On Playing Mistakes With Midi Keyboard

Over 300 easy-to-follow piano lessons from distinguished Juilliard instructor including more than 70 video demonstrations.

Learn over 100 popular songs in a variety of genres: classical, blues, pop, and rock. Includes hit songs from artists such as Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, and Elton John!

eMedia’s Animated Keyboard shows fingerings as the music plays.

Over 160 lessons featuring basic techniques, rhythm tunes and popular songs

Over 70 large-format full-motion videos guide kids through playing techniques

Animated Fingerboard shows correct fingerings as the music plays

Everything you need to begin playing!

Over 75 lessons

Animated keyboard

Learn How Music Works with Over 430 Interactive Lessons - Learn to read music and how rhythms, scales, chords, and chord progressions are created and interact

Learn More Advanced Rhythms, Scales, Chords, and Concepts - Learn about the construction of augmented and seventh chords; harmonic, melodic, and natural minor scales; modes; musical keys; the circle of fifths; and more

Learn sight-singing skills and know how compositions will sound as you read the sheet music. Use sight-tapping and practice reading rhythms and Rhythm Imitation studies help you recognize rhythmic form

Learn rock, punk, grunge, and metal guitar through this interactive teaching system

Receive interactive feedback on melodies and riffs you play into your computer

Learning songs and exercises is easy with an animated fretboard, song looping, music tracking, multi-track recorded audio, variable-speed MIDI tracks and more

This edition includes an additional 170 lessons from eMedia Intermediate Guitar Method

New v6 features: chord recognition, jam tracks, new songs, and much more

Instant Feedback on your playing for both chords and melody

Learn how to play bass guitar with over 140 step-by-step lessons carefully crafted by professional bassist and bass instructor, John Arbo.

Over 200 songs and exercises include lessons on walk ups, walk downs, scales, rhythms, technique, and much more. Songs include hits made famous by Bob Dylan, CCR, Steve Miller, and the Grateful Dead.

Instructional videos feature split-screen close-ups for helpful guidance.

Learn rock, punk, grunge, and metal guitar through this interactive teaching system

Receive interactive feedback on melodies and riffs you play into your computer

Learning songs and exercises is easy with an animated fretboard, song looping, music tracking, multi-track recorded audio, variable-speed MIDI tracks and more

Piano-learning software with animated character, Pam the Piano

100+ lessons taught by former Juilliard School of Music instructor

Animated keyboard; interactive feedback; full-motion videos

eMedia Guitar For Dummies Level 2 elevates your playing with over 90 complete guitar lessons by Kevin Garry, Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder, award-winning guitarist and music professor. Lessons teach more chords and strumming styles, fingerpicking, reading guitar tablature and music notation, and other guitar techniques.

Learn popular songs including hits made famous by Heart, The Animals, and others to keep practicing fun. These include “Scarborough Fair,” “Dreamboat Annie,” and others.

eMedia’s Animated Fretboard showing fingerings for chords and notes played in the lessons.

Over 100 lessons from a Guitar Institute of Technology graduate

Hosted by radio personality Steve Rock of KISW’s “Metal Shop”

Techniques include movable power chords, hammer-ons, distorted riffs & more

MAC Users: Please note - 32-bit ONLY. MAC OS 10.5 to 10.14 ONLY

Over 150 intermediate-to-advanced piano lessons designed to help you improve piano technique, understand music theory, learn how to play blues piano and get started with piano improvisation.

The lessons were carefully crafted by Vadim Ghin, M.A., who has taught at the renowned Juilliard School of Music for students who have finished eMedia Piano and Keyboard Method.

Over 230 Interactive lessons teach you to sing better by understanding breathing, Resonance, how to form vowels and consonants, and much more

Performance Evaluation technology that will Listen to you sing the whole song, give specific feedback on mistakes, and provide an overall score

Over 30 videos and animations teach you about your voice and proper technique, and show how sound is produced by your body

Music notation software for creating, hearing, and printing sheet music

Free music scanning and SmartMusic instrument sounds

Write songs up to 24 staves; create scores and print out parts

Includes full-motion large format videos which clearly demonstrates techniques, styles and explains music theory

Learn from over 100 step-by-step lessons

Includes a digital Recorder, Digital metronome & Chord dictionary

Learn music theory with a step-by-step curriculum designed by Dr. Gregory Simon, who has a Ph.D. in music composition from University of Michigan who has taught at the University of Colorado

Intelligent Practice tracks your progress as you learn music theory and automatically selects questions to improve weak spots

Both music theory lessons and basic ear training combined into one music theory software solution

Over 60 lessons featuring popular songs

Teaches over 30 guitar chords

Covers reading guitar tablature notation & playing melodies

This acclaimed guitar software provides beginning guitar lessons for electric and acoustic guitar and teaches you how to play guitar across rock, country, blues, and other guitar styles.

Over 40 professional videos, many with split-screen view, make it easier to learn how to play guitar by seeing both hands.

Play along with over 40 easy guitar songs, including famous hits by Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, and Steve Miller.

Height: 7.75in / 20cm

By Michael Ochs

Hardcover

Melodious Etudes for Trombone (Book/CD) - Joannes Rochut BOOK 1

A staple in brass methods, Melodious Etudes for Trombone, Book 1 has been re-engraved, corrected by pedagogue Alan Raph, and printed with a lay-flat binding for ease of use

Additionally, Bordogni's original piano accompaniments, written specially for the vocalises, are presented with these etudes for the first time

Over 120 songs and exercises

Tips on technique

Well-tested learning method

Used Book in Good Condition

150 four-color illustrations, Foreword by Jonathan Van Meter

Height: 9.75in / 25cm

By Editors of American Vogue

Once-per-day exercises cover:Alternate pickingArpeggiosSweep pickingString skippingLegatoString bendingRhythm guitar