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Piano and Keyboard Method V2.0 Review
User Submitted Piano and Keyboard Method V2.0 Reviews
Date: 2008-12-05
An excellent teaching tool
I have recommended this software to beginning keyboard players and have found it to be very helpful for them. I wish I had this available when I learned piano many years ago! For those already taking lessons, it makes an excellent supplementary tool. Visual and corrective feedback make learning much easier and the videos are well done.
Date: 2008-12-03
This is not a teaching machine
Potentially, a computer could really help a person learn piano. However, most of this product's features fall short of helpful. The midi preview of each exercise and tune is useful for anyone who cannot read music at all, but nothing you could not get with an audio CD. The animated keyboard is just a distraction. The course includes occasional video clips, but they add little. At least one potentially useful feature, the musical accompaniment, is actually broken, at least on Macintosh. If you turn on the accompaniment, you won't be able to hear your own playing. There is a volume adjustment control for it, but it does nothing. The company is aware of the problem, but they still advertise this feature, and keep shipping the product.
The program runs in a cramped little window. A menu command lets you make it full screen, but it just lowers the resolution of your monitor, making the contents of the window larger, but blurry.
I would recommend a book and audio CD (like the Alfred's All-In-One, level 1 piano method) over eMedia's Piano software.
Date: 2008-11-24
Computer doesn't help in this case
The easiest way to learn how to read music is to do it the hard way, which is to trudge through it on your own for extended periods of time, trying different songs, until you get the hang of how to read and play music. This process can take a very long time. It cannot be sped up with the use of this program. Don't give money to these people. They may have good intentions, but it doesn't change the fact that learning music is hard. Buy sheet music and get to work.
Date: 2008-02-22
piano and keyboard method v2
this makes it easy enough for a young person to do the work, but it takes an adult to supply the structure and to explain some more intricate issues.
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