Best Instrument Instruction in 2026

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.

Everything you need to begin playing!

Over 75 lessons

Animated keyboard

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.

MUSIC THEORY - Interactive music theory course for beginners to learn or freshen up all the core aspects of music theory

EAR TRAINING - thousands of exercises to sharpen your listening skills and learn to sing, play, transcribe, and compose music by ear.

SIGHT-SINGING - Learn to sing from musical scores using EarMaster' s voice input and real-time pitch recognition.

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

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.

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.

CD

Size: 12" x 9"

Composer: Randall Faber

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

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

Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 4.

Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.

Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.

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

eMedia Bass Guitar For Dummies is a fun and easy way to learn bass quickly, with instant feedback to help you progress through each exercise.

Over 70 easy-to-follow lessons from professional bassist and instructor John Arbo from the New School in New York City with techniques demonstrated in 30 helpful videos, viewable full-screen.

eMedia’s Animated Fretboard displays fingering positions as the music plays, making it easy to follow along.

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.