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SmartMusic Studio 8.1 released.


Make Music Inc., 6210 Bury Dr., Eden Prairie Eden Prairie

A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300.
, MN 55346-1718; (952) 937-9611, fax: (952) 937-9760; www.makemusic.com or www.smartmusic.com. Price varies.

MakeMusic! Inc. recently released SmartMusic Studio SmartMusic Studio is a software used to help with practicing instruments.  8.1, the latest version of the company's award-winning interactive music practice system.

SmartMusic Studio 8.1 introduces support for strings with Hal Leonard's Essential Elements 2000 for Strings Book 1 and Suzuki Volumes 14 for Violin violin, family of stringed musical instruments having wooden bodies whose backs and fronts are slightly convex, the fronts pierced by two f-hole-shaped resonance holes. , Viola viola: see violin.
viola

Stringed instrument, the tenor member of the violin family. In appearance it is almost identical to the violin but slightly larger; its strings are tuned a fifth lower.
 and Cello cello or 'cello: see violin.
cello
 or violoncello

Bowed, stringed instrument, the bass member of the violin family. Its full name means “little violone”—i.e., “little big viol.
, as well as Volumes 1-3 for Double Bass. New titles for young band students include Hal Leonard's Essential Elements 2000 Book 2 and Alfred's Accent on Achievement Book 2.

Available to students and music educators through school sponsorship and home subscription offers, SmartMusic is acclaimed for its patented Intelligent Accompaniment feature that listens to musicians perform through a microphone attached to a computer and then follows their spontaneous tempo changes just as a skilled human accompanist would.

Students using SmartMusic can perform music and then immediately listen to how they sound via a CD-quality recording that can be e-mailed to patents and teachers or saved to disk as a permanent performance portfolio. With some method books, students' performances are assessed onscreen on·screen or on-screen  
adj. & adv.
1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen.

2. Within public view; in public.
, with colored notes showing them what they did wrong and how to do it right. Student scores can be e-mailed automatically to their teachers.

For more information including subscription details, contact MakeMusic! Inc.
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Title Annotation:Music Marketplace
Publication:American Music Teacher
Date:Feb 1, 2004
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