By Ivan Alegre
Copyright 2005 IDE
People that play the piano beautifully fascinate me. It isinteresting the different paths some of them take to become goodat it. There are so many options now days for children andadults interested in becoming concert pianists, or just becomecomfortable with this instrument and play it whenever they feellike it, carry a tune for their enjoyment or simply to pleaseothers like myself.
Many excellent piano players start their education at a youngage, because they are given the opportunity by their parents,relatives or friends. As a result, self-confidence increases,opening doors of inspiration and self-satisfaction to becomebetter at their new enterprise, and with time they find a way toexpress themselves and are admired by people they never dreamedof.
The Internet, computers, and video games, become excellentmediums to transmit music information to children at an earlyage. The challenge remains in figuring out which video gamesshould parents buy and keep.
As far as piano learning is concerned, recently I have beenshown and become interested in the Piano Wizard video gamepackage from Allegro Multimedia. This piano instruction computersoftware game provides a fun attention grabber display settingto users. Teaching to play music with game activities on thescreen that they can interact using a fun color-coded keyboard.This makes children start enjoying music, without even realizingthey are stepping into the piano-playing world. This computerinstruction game then teaches music notation while children getmore into the game, making the learning curve transparent,pressure free, fun and enjoyable.
The system works with MIDI files that one can download to acomputer with the Piano Wizard software already installed; infact, the company's main site has links to many sites that havea large amount of MIDI files and information.
I find that the price for the keyboard and Piano Wizard videogame package is very affordable for all the features andcapabilities included in the software. I really do like the factthat one can easily up-load any type of song in MIDI format intothe game software and start playing it along in minutes. Ibelieve your time will be well spent while visiting their
My best wishes to you and your children in this musical anduplifting venture.
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