Product Description

Piano And Keyboard Method is a powerful and original new approach to building music skills! Interactive lessons and multimedia exercises combine for a clear and easy-to-use learning method!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2454 in Software
• Brand: eMedia
• Model: EG01031
• Released on: 2003-09-12
• Platforms: Windows NT, Macintosh, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 95
• Format: CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.90" h x 7.60" w x 9.50" l, .30 pounds

Features

• Powerful piano learning toolset
• Interactive feedback when using MIDI-connected keyboard
• Over 300 step-by-step lessons with 70 video demonstrations
• Develop sight reading, ear training, finger technique and more
• Over 100 songs included

From the Manufacturer
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

• 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.

Customer Reviews

Horrible!
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.

Disappointing - Returned It
The program crashed everytime I tried to play the videos. I upgraded QuickTime per their web site's suggestion and that didn't help either. The program is made for low resolution monitors and while you can switch to full screen mode, it just changes your Windows resolution to a very low setting so it fills up the screen.

I didn't even get to the second screen in the introduction. Maybe you'll have more luck on a Mac, but I wouldn't suggest this program for anyone running on a new Windows based PC.

Wrong CD in the Box TWICE
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.