UNITED KINGDOM - Developed by music educators, Piano Suite is a real teaching tool for learning to play piano no matter what your age! With a full compliment of customizable and expandable tools Piano Suite will guide you into the rewarding world of making your own music. Even if you already play piano you can benefit from the in-depth interactive theory lessons, and the large musical repertoire to extend your skills, and learn your favorite music easily.
Piano Player is the heart of the program, guiding you through over 400 music pieces (100 in the Basic Edition), ranging from Classical to Contemporary. Piano Player will help you through the learning process with the help of an interactive voice tutor and provide continuous feedback on your play until you master the piece.
To begin, simply select Piano Player from the Main screen, and the Song Setup screen will appear. Song Setup allows you to select a musical piece from the Piano Suite library of music and to choose settings for font size, hand position and the metronome.
The Piano Player screen displays the arrangement which was selected from the Song Setup screen. From here you can choose the evaluation method you will use to practice the piece. Settings made in the Song Setup screen can also be easily altered using the tool bar located above the virtual keyboard.
Theory Thinker is your guide to the fundamentals of learning music and playing the piano. With 22 lessons and hundreds of pages of interactive study along with educational and entertaining games, it is a comprehensive tutorial of music theory and keyboard practice.
Piano Suite Premier features the Composer's Corner, which integrates a quality notation tool to the program. Become a composer yourself, and record your own music! Improve a composition by editing the musical score to perfection. Add an image and save your creation in the "Learn to Play" Library. You can even load MIDI files from the web to learn to play.
History Happens is an informative and insightful look at musicians and composers that have helped shape the course of musical history. It features biographies of over 300 famous composers and performers. There is a reference section to direct you to more information, and a time line to help you place your favorite characters in musical history. Also included in History Happens is a time line of classical music, a list a classical music from popular movies, and a guide on how to pronounce some of the composer’s names that you may not yet be familiar.
The Games section of Piano Suite allows you to have some fun while reinforcing your musical skills. In a take-off on the classic game Simon, Semitone Says drills the student on pitch memory and note identification on the piano. Repeat the pattern of notes the computer plays, using the MIDI keyboard. The computer can choose random notes, or follow the notes in a song. It will start with a single note, and add another note to the pattern each time you repeat the tune correctly. Music Concentration quizzes students on music symbol recognition in this familiar flash card game.
Piano Suite also tracks students' progress and can also produce assessment summary reports to see progress. Virtually everything can be customized to suit your style, even choosing which animated characters appear as you learn! Teacher's settings help to implement Piano Suite into a classroom or laboratory setting.
Piano Suite can be bundled with a 49 key velocity sensitive FATAR MIDI keyboard and a MIDI cable, or you may want to upgrade your keyboard lab with Yamaha's PSR Series keyboards, complete with on-board monitoring and headphone capability, and a complete array of sounds and rhythms to complement the Piano Suite method.
Dynamic, intuitive and interactive, Piano Suite includes everything you need to make learning piano fun and productive. Packed with multimedia, lessons, exercises, history, games, and composing tools, Piano Suite guides you every step of the way!
With intuitive controls, speaking menus, extensive curriculum and successful teaching methods, Piano Suite is designed to suit beginners of all ages and interact positively with personal lessons.
With Piano Suite Premier you can record your own music, display and print the musical notation and add your own composition along with a favorite photo to the "Learning Library" repertoire. Others can then learn your music in Piano Suite's friendly, guided environment.
Personal and musical biographies of over 150 composers and performers will enrich your learning experience. Challenging interactive games sharpen your piano playing skills and develop theory comprehension. Compositions can also be exported to the popular MIDI format and even made available to a global audience via the internet.
- JoJo David
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