Instant Play Piano.Instant Play Piano. Topics Entertainment (1600 S.W. 43rd St., Renton, WA 98055), 2004, $19.99. All Levels. This set of four CD-ROMs is intended for someone who wants to learn to play the piano. Interestingly, they are not a set of piano lessons, but four different CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). programs--"Etude e·tude n. Music 1. A piece composed for the development of a specific point of technique. 2. A composition featuring a point of technique but performed because of its artistic merit. Sight Reader," "Keyboard Foundation," "Personal Ear Trainer" and "Music Masterworks XE." "Personal Ear Trainer" includes "trainers" (which are skill and drill exercises) in intervals, triads, chords, scales and melodic and rhythmic dictation. This program is easy to install and easy to use. It could be used by students on many levels. The Interval Trainer includes major, minor, perfect and diminished intervals in levels of difficulty unison to a fourteenth, played blocked or broken, ascending or descending. The Triad Trainer includes major, minor, diminished and augmented triads in any inversion, either blocked or broken. The Chords Trainer uses jazz chords This article is intended to describe and explain some of the chords and chord symbols which are commonly found in Jazz music. All chords are described starting with the lowest note, and ascending in pitch. . The Scales Trainer trains in twenty-three different scales and modes, ascending or descending. and rhythmic dictation both offer eight levels of difficulty. This program would be very useful in an independent studio lab. "Keyboard Foundation" is a series of lessons about playing an electronic keyboard An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is a type of keyboard instrument. Its sound is generated or amplified by one or more electronic devices. Modern usage of the term "electronic keyboard" typically describes a type of inexpensive synthesizer marketed to , The focus is on learning to use an electronic keyboard with auto accompaniment, intro and ending functions. Short mention is made of technique (curved fingers and relaxation). This CD consists of ten lessons; if you want to go through all fifty advertised lessons, you are given a website from which to purchase and download them. Contrary to its name, this program is anything but "instant." "Music Masterworks XE" is a notation program, which seemed cumbersome and detailed to use. "Etude Sight Reader" was unable to be reviewed. The disk in my package was labeled "Etude Sight Reader," but installed as "Music Masterworks." Hopefully, this can be corrected soon. Of these four programs, I would use only "Personal Ear Trainer" in my studio lab. I think "Music Masterworks XE" is rather underserving considering the notation programs already available, and "Keyboard Foundation" is misnamed mis·name tr.v. mis·named, mis·nam·ing, mis·names To call by a wrong name. misnamed Adjective having an inappropriate or misleading name: . "Instant Play Piano" will not teach you to play piano, but in my opinion is worth purchasing just for "Personal Ear Trainer." Reviewed by Michelle Gardan, NCTM NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics NCTM Nationally Certified Teacher of Music NCTM North Carolina Transportation Museum NCTM National Capital Trolley Museum NCTM Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage , Mattapoisett, Massachusetts Mattapoisett is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,268 at the 2000 census. For geographic and demographic information on the village of Mattapoisett Center, please see the article Mattapoisett Center, Massachusetts. . |
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