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List Price: $59.95
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Manufacturer: eMedia
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: eMedia
EAN: 0746290080741
Feature: Over 300 step-by-step lessons starting from the basics; such as hand position, rhythm, and playing on black keys; followed by music notation, sight reading, scales, and much more
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: eMedia
Manufacturer: eMedia
Model: EK08071
Platform: Windows NT
Publisher: eMedia
Release Date: 2007-10-31
Studio: eMedia
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Features
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Over 300 step-by-step lessons starting from the basics; such as hand position, rhythm, and playing on black keys; followed by music notation, sight reading, scales, and much more
Get specific feedback on note and rhythm mistakes to help you get it right the next time; personalized reports show your rate of progress, including scores for specific songs
Over 70 high-resolution, large-format videos and a built-in recorder to help you hear your progress
Songs and exercises are enhanced by live recorded audio, variable-speed MIDI keyboard tracks, and colorful MIDI accompaniments
Animated Keyboard displays correct fingerings as the music plays or for any note or chord that you double-click
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Editorial Reviews:
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eMedia Piano and Keyboard Method CD-ROM offers over 300 step-by-step lessons starting from the basics such as hand position, rhythm, and playing on black keys, followed by music notation, sight reading, scales, and more. Professional piano instructor Irma Irene Justicia, M.A., who has taught at the renowned Juilliard School of Music, guides you with over 70 videos with demonstrations of techniques with enhanced quality. Many of the videos include split-screen displays with close-ups for a clearer perspective. The Piano fingerings help teach you the correct fingering for each note. Personalized reports show your rate of progress, including scores for specific songs. High-quality, multi-track recorded audio is included for every song and exercise. Audio playback options include piano only, voice only, and full audio including both piano and voice. Slows down the audio to any tempo, while the Animated Keyboard shows song fingering as the music plays. You can play along and learn at the pace best suited to your skill level. MIDI playback options let you select left or right hand only, or a tick metronome track to play along with. Colorful variable-speed MIDI accompaniments are also available and can be fun to play along with. When using an electronic MIDI-compatible keyboard, you can get specific feedback on note and rhythm mistakes made while playing to help you get it right the next time. Clicking on an individual feedback balloon brings up a keyboard showing you exactly what mistake was made and what should have been played. Also, an overall percentage score summarizes how well you did on the song. With the click of a button, you can get suggestions as to which Voice to use on your MIDI keyboard to get the best sound for the song. Interactive review and ear training screens help reinforce new concepts and develop your ear. This feature allows you to compare your recordings with the instructor's version, fine tune you
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: An excellent teaching tool
Comment: I have recommended this software to beginning keyboard players and have found it to be very helpful for them. I wish I had this available when I learned piano many years ago! For those already taking lessons, it makes an excellent supplementary tool. Visual and corrective feedback make learning much easier and the videos are well done.
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Summary: This is not a teaching machine
Comment: Potentially, a computer could really help a person learn piano. However, most of this product's features fall short of helpful. The midi preview of each exercise and tune is useful for anyone who cannot read music at all, but nothing you could not get with an audio CD. The animated keyboard is just a distraction. The course includes occasional video clips, but they add little. At least one potentially useful feature, the musical accompaniment, is actually broken, at least on Macintosh. If you turn on the accompaniment, you won't be able to hear your own playing. There is a volume adjustment control for it, but it does nothing. The company is aware of the problem, but they still advertise this feature, and keep shipping the product.
The program runs in a cramped little window. A menu command lets you make it full screen, but it just lowers the resolution of your monitor, making the contents of the window larger, but blurry.
I would recommend a book and audio CD (like the Alfred's All-In-One, level 1 piano method) over eMedia's Piano software.
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Summary: Computer doesn't help in this case
Comment: The easiest way to learn how to read music is to do it the hard way, which is to trudge through it on your own for extended periods of time, trying different songs, until you get the hang of how to read and play music. This process can take a very long time. It cannot be sped up with the use of this program. Don't give money to these people. They may have good intentions, but it doesn't change the fact that learning music is hard. Buy sheet music and get to work.
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Summary: piano and keyboard method v2
Comment: this makes it easy enough for a young person to do the work, but it takes an adult to supply the structure and to explain some more intricate issues.
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