| | |  | Instrument Instruction | Home » » » » Intermediate Piano and Keyboard Method (Win/Mac) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | eMedia Intermediate Piano and Keyboard Method incorporates the classics blues and improvisation to create an exciting musical experience. It contains over 150 lessons that will improve your playing help you master your keyboard and develop your musicianship. Take your playing to the next level with eMedia Intermediate Piano & Keyboard Method. System Requirements:Windows: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP or later 32MB RAM CD-ROM Mac: Power PC System 7.5.3+ or OS X10.2+ 32 MB RAM CD-ROMFormat: WIN 98ME2000XP/MAC 8.6-9.X (CLASSIC)X10.1 OR Genre: REFERENCE / LIFESTYLE Age: 746290190518 UPC: 746290190518 Manufacturer No: EK09051 | | | Features: | |
• Play pieces by famous composers in a broad range of musical styles
• Comprehensive music curriculum with 150+ lessons
• Conventional scales, chord progressions, and finger techniques
• Learn the blues form, scales, and patterns needed to improvise
• Video demonstrations of techniques and practical advice
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| 0.26 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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| Windows 98 / Windows 2000 / Windows Me / Windows XP / Mac OS X / Mac OS 9 and below | | Media:
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Convenient way to improve your piano skillsJan 10, 2009
By W. Emshoff
I recently bought this after reading the review at [...].
Despite a few technical glitches, I found this software met my modest goals, and I covered a lot of new material.
As an intermediate-level player that hadn't played in years, I wanted something to help me improve my skills in a more structured way than trying to find appropriate sheet music on my own, but without the financial and time commitment of private lessons.
First, if using software rather than paper sheet music, you need a digital piano with a MIDI interface to your PC, with the piano keyboard set in front of your PC's monitor. I'm using a Casio PX-120 an an Xmidi 1X1 USB interface.
Interesting aside: when I placed my keyboard on my metal stand, I got a horrifying sound when I hit D# - apparently the stand's resonant frequency, a problem solved with a bit of self-adhesive felt.
The Good:
For each piece or selection thereof, you can hear what the piece is supposed to sound like.
For some exercises, you can get automated feedback on how you played, with the errors tagged on the score, e.g. a missed or wrong note hit, or note held too long.
For other exercises, you can play along to a recorded ensemble.
Along with the music, audio clips are provided with interesting background trivia on the composers and their music but I'd rather read these than listen.
The not so good (are you listening emedia?):
There's not a good way to print a score as there is with online Scorch sheet music.
You cannot expand the window to see a whole page of music at once.
It's possible to lock the program up by trying to set various while audio is being played.
I found the metronome far too loud, with no obvious way to adjust its volume. I wound up just using the metronome built into my keyboard.
I had to keep the CD in my PC to use all the features.
The table of contents is too coarse, only allowing you to jump to the top of each section, rather than to a particular lesson or piece.
The "Animated keyboard" which displayed by default is a worthless waste of screen space for an Intermediate player. Fortunately, you can turn it off.
 Disappointing!Mar 19, 2012
By Thomas Y
I have been using the beginner's lessons and loved it. When I upgraded to the intermediate package, I was stunned to find out that the lesson pages turns out to be half the size as the beginner's lessons. This is a big problem for me as I do not see that well, esp trying to discern the music notes on the score lines and keeping up with the tempo.
Why in the world would they go backwards in user experience????
 The best and fast way to improve your piano skill from BeginnerMay 19, 2011
By Ken
The best and fast way to improve your piano skill from Beginner.
I finished some basic piano lessons and books, and even Garageband, and then I am looking for something more challenging, then I found this one at Amazon. I purchased a copy from a internet seller.
I installed it in my iMac. it works perfectly.
I wish I can play like a 50% Richard Cladman or 50% of Lang Lang SOOON. lol
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