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eMedia Piano and Keyboard Method CD-ROM offers everything you need to learn how to play. Over 300 step-by-step lessons start with basics such as hand position, rhythm, and playing on black keys, and moving on to music notation, sight reading, scales, and much more! Piano teacher Irma Irene Justicia, M.A., who has taught at the renowned Juilliard School of Music, guides you with over 70 video demonstrations of techniques.
Learn songs and exercises from either the music notation or an animated keyboard that displays fingerings in-time with the music. Songs and exercises are enhanced by live recorded audio, variable-speed MIDI keyboard tracks, and colorful MIDI accompaniments. You will learn from over 100 popular classical, blues, pop, and rock songs, including hit songs from artists such as Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, and Elton John!
Interactive review and ear-training screens help reinforce new concepts and develop your ear. When used with an electronic MIDI keyboard, you can get specific feedback on playing mistakes, including wrong notes and rhythms. Other accessories include a built-in digital metronome and one-track recorder.
Over 100 songs including:
- "Piano Man" - Billy Joel
- "Candle in the Wind" - Elton John
- "Ode to Joy" - Ludwig van Beethoven
- "America the Beautiful" - Samuel Ward
- "La Bamba" - made famous by Los Lobos
- "Minuet in G" - J.S. Bach
- "Tishomingo Blues" - Spencer Williams
- "The Entertainer" - Scott Joplin
- "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Bob Dylan Features
- Interactive feedback: get specific feedback on note and rhythm mistakes made while playing to help you get it right the next time.
- Animated keyboard: displays correct fingerings as the music plays or for any note or chord that you double-click.
- Audio tracks: features vibrant multi-track recordings and MIDI tracks that allow you to slow down or speed up the music.
- Video instruction: includes over 70 video demonstrations with teacher Irma Irene Justicia, M.A., who has taught at the renowned Juilliard School of Music.
- Reviews and ear training: reinforce new concepts and develop your ear with flashcard quizzes.
- Digital metronome: keep a steady beat with audio and visual feedback.
- Recorder: Record and play yourself back! Save recordings to measure your progress.
- Accompaniment tracks: practicing is fun when you can play along with colorful MIDI accompaniments at the speed you choose.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2015
This is a nice program. Although I never actually followed through and learned to play the piano, the program is well written and will definitely teach people to play!
Washingtonrl
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2015
expected more
R Avery
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2008
This is so shameful that it makes me think there should a federal agency whose mission it is to keep things like this off the market.First off, it is a "Director" movie, which means /really/ old software technology, which means adding a high degree of boring and uninteresting user interface.The features in this software are awful. There are none, essentially.I was really hoping to find something along the lines of Mavis Beacon Typing, with games and such to help me work on chord progression and key scales. There's nothing like this.And the woman who is featured in the video clips is truly frightening.Its like this product was explicitly designed to invoke all the ugly memories we have of being forced to take all those boring piano lessons with that grouchy old person when we were kids.If you want to start making music, don't buy this. Buy the "Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory". MUCH better.
David C. Eisinger
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2007
I ordered this software, but when it arrived, the box contained the CD for eMedia's Guitar Method. I went through the replacement process, but the second box also contained the same wrong CD. Finally just went to Guitar Center and bought it -- software works well on the Mac.
Kevan Kwong
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2006
I am an adult trying to learn Piano. This program is great for learning simple songs and does have a very good feedback system.The lessons are taught with plenty of simple songs which you can play and the feedback system will track how well you play. The feedback system tracks your key presses, rythem, and note length. However, it does not track the strength of your key press.I would like to see more exercises to develop better basic skills, instead of just playing simple songs. Also, the feedback program can be very discouraging for children as it is very sensitive and report very minor error.Overall, this is still a great program to have for self learner, but in no way will it beat a real piano teacher.
R. Whitaker
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2006
This program is okay, if you are motivated enough. The lessons are pretty easy to follow although the female instructor is pretty annoying, especially when she sings along to the songs. I bought a MIDI cable that did not work very well with the program. I kept getting errors when I would have my performance reviewed. It could have just been my computer, but it got pretty frustrating. I now have a basic knowledge of how to play technically, but I wish there were exercises on how to strengthen your fingers so that they actually hit the right keys.
M. Green
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2004
I was completely new to music when I bought this set (CD-ROM and keyboard). I think it is great. It walks you through the basics and when you start playing the music has numbers on it that match up to your fingers (1-5) so you can play as you get the hang of reading music. Gradually they remove some of the numbers so your music reading skills improve.The software grades your playing with a percentage score, and gives you details on your errors (if you want them).Also, 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).The keyboard that comes with it (optional) has a solid feel, and is touch-sensitive (pressing harder plays louder). The keyboard plugs into the joystick port (probably on your sound card).
Ilan
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2004
I got this product yesterday and started to learn by it.after browsing it and using it for the first 17 lessons this is my impression.what you get in this product is 100% of quality content and less emphasize on look and graphics.and if you want to learn playing the keyboard, so the quality of the teaching is more important then other features.the teacher leading the instruction process using video clips and audio tracks, is Irma Justicia MA which is a experienced piano teacher.after 17 lessons i fell in love with her .it feels just lilke i'm in a real lesson with her.for my non proffesinal impression this product is good for absolute beginners to the intermediate level.it is also said on the product that it is volume 1 so probably they are going to issue more products in this piano keyboard line just as they done with the guitar.cause of the simplicity of the graphics you can use it on any computer,old and new.but still you get many sophisticated features like interactive feedback using midi cable.for summary ...GOOD WORK.
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