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• Over 300 easy-to-follow lessons from distinguished Juilliard instructor, including more than 70 video demonstrations
• Interactive Instant Feedback works with both electronic keyboards and acoustic pianos, and shows you when you play the correct notes in a melody
• Songs and exercises are enhanced by live recorded audio, variable-speed MIDI keyboard tracks, MIDI accompaniments, and an animated keyboard
• Over 100 popular classical, blues, pop, and rock songs, including hit songs from artists such as Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, and Elton John
• When using a MIDI keyboard, personalized reports show your rate of progress, including scores for specific songs
• Interactive Evaluation Feedback - When Using A Midi Keyboard Gives Specific Feedback On Note And Rhythm Mistakes
• Offers Everything Needed To Learn How To Play The Piano
• Progress Tracking - Personalized Reports Show Rates Of Progress, Including Scores For Specific Songs
• Provides Instant Feedback
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 1.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 5.25 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 27 reviews |
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25 of 25 found the following review helpful:
 Learn To Play PianoJun 11, 2010
By Dale Sanders
I think this is a great product. It walks you through the basics through more advanced techniques and songs. It also does a great job of teaching you to read music.
It includes short videos of a person playing piano so you can see proper posture and such. Each song comes with (optional) accompaniment, which can make it funner to play (especially with the simple songs). You can also slow the songs down while learning them. The software grades your playing with a percentage score, and gives you details on your errors (if you want them).
This is a great program if you really want to learn to play on your own.
25 of 26 found the following review helpful:
Best I've seen for the adult beginner on pianoOct 10, 2010
By K. Harby
"LocustTrees"
I'm a musician but not a piano player, and I've had 4 piano lessons with 3 different people. It turned out to be very hard for these piano teachers, who learned as little kids and mostly teach kids, to understand the needs of a musician adult who is learning piano as an additional instrument. They don't have the appropriate method books, they don't know how to assess what I don't know, they don't know how to make appropriate assignments. I learned very little in those lessons.
This method is just fantastic for me because I can skip over all the things I already know, and I can take the same lesson over and over and over again if I'm having trouble with it, never trying the patience of the computer (unlike the humans!) I've been using it maybe two weeks? and I'm amazed at all the things I've learned, and all the songs I can play. The teacher's videos add just the right touch, the singing on the songs is lovely. There's an accompaniment track for the songs so you can get up to tempo and have fun playing with them. Guitar chords are provided (!) which means I can add the chords I know on selected simple songs to make the lesson more challenging. It's a heavily song-based curriculum, lots of Baroque music, but I'm also working on Piano Man by Billy Joel.
My feeling is once I finish this disk, I will be ready for piano lessons with a human. And I will be playing piano pretty darn well by then, too. I just can't recommend this highly enough.
20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Great way to begin practiceSep 03, 2010
By Snowman2010
This software is great to begin to practice, I have studied piano before, you always need a teacher and a schedule and practice, but nowadays without the necessary time, this tool offers a simple practice you can enjoy with around 300 lessons, being the first 70 very easy ones ( one handed slow pieces ).
Every time a lesson or song begins you can hear the teacher giving an insight about the song, which I particularly enjoy, it's not only practice but also about music periods, authors, styles, and the soft gives out that information to the student, to enrich the music experience.
Also you can see hear the teacher playing the piano and singing the song, and as the songs have the lyrics on them, you can practice singing along as well.
I look forward to continue practing and once I dominate the beginners songs , I will definetely go for the intermediate advance piano software offered by emedia.
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Great supplement to self learning (must have digital piano) and works with MacSep 19, 2010
By Sincerely Yours
I am a newbie and have been learning to play the piano for the past 3 months on my own, using the alfred's all in one adult course book and no teacher thus far. So far so good, and i decided that i needed to see if my tempo and count were correct, I decided to add this program to my learning tools. I have to say, this is a great program to see how much you have progressed on your own. I found the exercises helped to reinforce the beat, the sight reading of the left hand and music theory. Actually, I really recommend you learn from the text book and then come to this program, as you will get a lot more out of it than just using this program on its own:it does go a little fast.
The program offers music theory, sight reading, ear training tests, lots of little tests to see how much you have learnt thus far, video to explain the positioning of the hand, audio explanations; the finger tracker, which is the best part of the program as it tells at the end, the percentage accuracy of your playing. And if you get frustrated at not getting above 95%, for the perfectionist, you can hit a key that plays it back to you on how it should be played! Note that if you hit a wrong note that also counts against you as well as not hitting it or holding it for the right amount of time! You can go back to a previous lesson again and again, which helps to reinforce the point. There are so many little helpers on each lesson, like video or audio pointers.
There are over 300 lessons, so I am looking forward to plowing through them along with the Alfred's course, which compliments this program beautifully. You will need to have a MIDI cable to connect the computer/laptop to your digital piano, which Amazon also sells at a very good price. So worth the money in lieu of a teacher. I will update every couple of months to comment on this program.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Can Be Used With An Acoustic Piano!Oct 04, 2010
By 171st_paang
I have this software also. The previous reviewer is mistaken.
It says right on the box that it CAN be used with an acoustic piano. You need to use a microphone so the program can 'listen' to the piano.
This WILL work with an acoustic piano, as well as a digital piano or a keyboard with a USB/MIDI cable.
The software is really good! Like the previous reviewer, I use it with the Alfred's Adult All-In-One Course.
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