Intermediate Piano and Keyboard Method
by admin on June 30, 2010
- Play pieces by famous composers in a broad range of musical styles
- Comprehensive music curriculum with 150+ lessons
- Conventional scales, chord progressions, and finger techniques
- Learn the blues form, scales, and patterns needed to improvise
- Video demonstrations of techniques and practical advice
Product Description
The eMedia Intermediate Piano and Keyboard Method software features over 150 lessons and 50 songs with a focus on blues, classics, conventional scales, chord progressions, improvisation and other techniques necessary for mastering the piano. Vadim Ghin, author of the innovative eMedia Intermediate Piano and Keyboard Method CD-ROM, holds a Masters Degree in Piano from the Julliard School of Music, and has taught extensively at Julliard, New York University, and the M... Click Here for Detials 
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Intermediate Piano and Keyboard Method
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I recently bought this after reading the review at [...].
Despite a few technical glitches, I found this software met my modest goals, and I covered a lot of new material.
As an intermediate-level player that hadn’t played in years, I wanted something to help me improve my skills in a more structured way than trying to find appropriate sheet music on my own, but without the financial and time commitment of private lessons.
First, if using software rather than paper sheet music, you need a digital piano with a MIDI interface to your PC, with the piano keyboard set in front of your PC’s monitor. I’m using a Casio PX-120 an an Xmidi 1X1 USB interface.
Interesting aside: when I placed my keyboard on my metal stand, I got a horrifying sound when I hit D# – apparently the stand’s resonant frequency, a problem solved with a bit of self-adhesive felt.
The Good:
For each piece or selection thereof, you can hear what the piece is supposed to sound like.
For some exercises, you can get automated feedback on how you played, with the errors tagged on the score, e.g. a missed or wrong note hit, or note held too long.
For other exercises, you can play along to a recorded ensemble.
Along with the music, audio clips are provided with interesting background trivia on the composers and their music but I’d rather read these than listen.
The not so good (are you listening emedia?):
There’s not a good way to print a score as there is with online Scorch sheet music.
You cannot expand the window to see a whole page of music at once.
It’s possible to lock the program up by trying to set various while audio is being played.
I found the metronome far too loud, with no obvious way to adjust its volume. I wound up just using the metronome built into my keyboard.
I had to keep the CD in my PC to use all the features.
The table of contents is too coarse, only allowing you to jump to the top of each section, rather than to a particular lesson or piece.
The “Animated keyboard” which displayed by default is a worthless waste of screen space for an Intermediate player. Fortunately, you can turn it off.
Rating: 3 / 5