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Installation was fast and trouble-free. The application's interface is well-designed and navigation through the program is self-explanatory. From the main menu you can select Piano Lessons, Recording Station/Jammin' Keys, Music Games, Music Reference, and SoundCheck. We moved right into the piano lessons, which cover getting started, right-hand training, rhythm training, and more. You can also zoom in on individual chapters, and select solo exercises from a drop-down list.
After choosing right-hand stretches, a video window popped up with our friendly instructor, Hugh Berberich. The camera view is over-the-shoulder, top-down on his hand as he slowly plays a scale up one octave. The video window allows one to pause or repeat the lesson, and move to the next lesson when ready. Throughout this and other lessons, Hugh explains concepts such as intervals, bars, and sharps and flats in a clear and concise manner.
Having made it through a lesson with Hugh, we then checked out the recording capabilities of Teach Me Piano. The recording station looks like a simple mixing board, with 12 sliders; Record, Mute, and Solo buttons; LED level meters; and transport functions. The recording station is quite simple and effective for multitracking keyboard parts, transposing MIDI data to different keys, and assigning the recorded MIDI data to the 128 General MIDI-compatible instruments. Although there are no features like editing or effects, it works well for the purposes of simple recording.
Additional features like music games and the Jammin' Keys section provide a respite from the lessons. Overall, Teach Me Piano offers a lot for the beginning or intermediate piano student, and would probably appeal to those simply interested in the piano's role in modern music. --John Bosch
| PLATFORM: | Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98 |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Voyetra |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM, Instructor Hugh Berberich walks you through 150 lessons -- watch his hands and duplicate their movements as you learn to play, Learn to play 75 popular songs, through the video-animated lessons, Work with a full recording studio - mixing boards, level meters, transport function and other high-tech aspects of recording yourself, Understand important piano concepts like intervals, bars, and sharps & flats -- all explained in a clear and concise manner, Begin reading music notation in just a few lessons |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| MPN: | vts-4847-100 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 731855048458 |
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Customer Reviews of Teach Me Piano Deluxe
lots of features, most of them are terrible. Firstly, this software is NOT truly XP compatible. Yes, it does run on XP, but it is not native. My first install gave me a "16-bit subsystem" error. I haven't seen something like that in 6 years. <
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>The range of features in the software is great. Unfortunately, most of them are implemented poorly and look like a throwback to Windows 95. There is also some sluggish inconsistency that other software doesn't seem to have. <
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>Get your act together, Voyetra!
Three of my kids used this!
All my children learned to play the piano using this software exclusively to learn piano. One ended up learning Moonlight Sonata well enough to wow the grandparents.
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>Yes, there are bugs. Sometimes (rarely) there is NO correct note that makes the program happy you are performing correctly. Grading is inaccurate and inconsistent - who cares? Music is typically fun to learn and it does teach you piano basics - one of its chief goals.
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>We've never had MIDI issues. We typically have used SoundBlaster sound cards with good luck. The music does come out of the keyboard though - fine with us.
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>The biggest bugger we have is not being able to control the sound feedback when you play the music (honks with wrong note, and other aural hints with you did/didn't do well).
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>All in all, I would get it again if we were starting up with a new learner!
Just ok
I know nothing about pianos but was able to go through the first few lessons fine.
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>However, my daughter who is taking piano classes with a private instructor could not benefit too much from this program.
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>-In the trainer screen, there are pedal icons to start the training session. We have to constantly leave the keyboard to move the mouse. How hard would it be to have users step on the piano pedals or use the keyboard to control the computer?
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>-No midi editor. All of the piano homework we would like to practice using the program have to be entered through other programs. The import function does not always work properly. Too bad if one wants to edit just one note, the whole process has to be redone.
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>-The sheets on the screen are way too small. It is hard to see them.
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>-No way to know which keys are supposed to be the ones to press when doing a song. One has to guess until the computer says it is ok to move on. Try guessing at a piece that requires more than three fingers on each hand on the small vga monitor with all the notes close together.
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>-Old program. We run it on Win98 and it still doesn't properly recognize midi filenames longer than 8.3 characters. Maybe newer version running on WinXP don't have this problem. However, the program hasn't seemed to have changed much over the years.
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>We are going to order Adventus as it seems to address many, if not all, of these issues.
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