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Music Ace Deluxe
Complete Music Lessons for Beginners!
Product
Specs
| Music Ace Deluxe™ combines
36 of the highly-engaging music lessons from the award-winning Music Ace and
Music Ace 2 products into a single, carefully sequenced product.
Designed by music education
professionals, Music Ace Deluxe is a comprehensive series of
music lessons and games that teach beginning music students of all ages
the basics of music theory, rhythm, pitch, note reading, listening, and
the keyboard. No previous musical experience or instrument is required.
Under the guidance of animated tutor
Maestro Max, students are led through a carefully sequenced series of
music lessons. Used alone or as a complement to traditional music lessons,
this program will challenge, engage and motivate music students and help
them succeed by mastering important music concepts and skills.
Music Ace Deluxe also
includes the creative Music Doodle Pad that allows beginners to easily
compose and hear their own musical creations. The Music Doodle Pad alone
provides many hours of fun and learning. |
This program will
challenge, engage and motivate music students and help them
succeed by mastering important music concepts and skills.
- Easy to use,
self-paced learning
- Complements
traditional music instruction
- Appropriate for
students of any instrument
- Create and play
your own music
- Compatible with
General MIDI keyboards (keyboard optional)
- Tracks progress
of 10 users
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Music Ace
Deluxe ships on a hybrid CD-ROM that runs on
both Windows and Macintosh platforms.
WINDOWS
- Windows
98/2000/Me/NT4/XP/Vista
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Pentium 166 MHz or
faster
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32 MB free RAM
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640x480 256-color
display
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60 MB free hard disk space
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16-bit sound
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CD-ROM drive and
mouse
- General MIDI keyboard OPTIONAL.
MACINTOSH
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PowerPC/iMac/G3/G4/G5
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System 9 or OS X (native mode)
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32 MB free RAM
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640x480 256-color
display
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60 MB free hard disk space
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CD-ROM drive and
mouse
- General MIDI keyboard OPTIONAL.
LESSONS
Thirty-six engaging, self-paced lessons that accelerate development of fundamental music skills and music theory.
Lessons cover:
| 1.
Introduction to the Staff |
19. Notes Longer
Than a Beat |
| 2.
Intro. to the Piano Keyboard |
20. Below
the Bass Staff |
| 3.
Beat and Tempo |
21. Dotted
Quarter Notes |
| 4. Playing
with Pitch |
22. Half
Steps and Whole Steps |
| 5. The ABCs of the
Piano Keyboard |
23. Rests |
| 6.
Hearing Rhythms |
24. Sharps
and Flats |
| 7.
More Piano ABC's |
25. Sharps
and Flats on the Staff |
| 8. The ABCs of the
Staff |
26.
Syncopation |
| 9.
Basic Rhythm Notation |
27. The Key
Signature |
| 10. The ABCs
of the Treble Staff |
28.
Introduction to Major Scales |
| 11. More
Treble Staff ABC's |
29.
Sixteenth Notes |
| 12. The
Quarter Rest |
30. Sharp
Key Signatures |
| 13. Below
the Treble Staff |
31. Three
Sounds per Beat |
| 14. Melody |
32. The Time
Signature |
| 15. Above
the Treble Staff |
33. Flat Key
Signatures |
| 16. The Measure |
34. The 6/8
Time Signature |
| 17. The
ABC's of the Bass Staff |
35. Minor
Scales |
| 18. Above
the Bass Staff |
36.
Introduction to Harmony |
GAMES
Thirty six exciting multi-level games (one per lesson) sharpen music skills and improve retention of important lesson concepts. Colorful animated 3-D graphics, digitized sound effects, bonus points and high scores provide fun, interactive entertainment. Users can select novice or advanced difficulty settings.
MUSIC DOODLE PAD
This unique feature allows individuals to easily compose their own music using a variety of instrument sounds. These creative compositions can be saved and played back for others, showcasing the knowledge and skills acquired from the lessons and games. Users can also listen to and modify popular music selections from the Jukebox section of the Music Doodle Pad.
TRACKING PROGRESS
Special
feature tracks an individual's progress through lessons and
games. A "completion count" provides the number of times the
user has gone through each section of a lesson and "games
progress" provides high scores.
INSTRUCTIONAL AND APPEARANCE SETTINGS
New features enable user to select clef instruction (treble and bass, treble only, bass only or alto only), determine rhythmic stringency (relaxed or strict), determine game difficulty (novice or advanced), and also adjust the appearance of the notes and instruments (with or without faces).
POINTS OF DISTINCTION
- Ideal for beginning and intermediate music students, young or old-any instrument
- Accelerates learning music fundamentals-develops and reinforces essential aspects of learning music
- Exceptional value-affordable combination of lessons, games and a composition feature
- Excellent motivational tool-excites students about learning music
- Users develop real musical skills, not just an introduction to music
- Entertaining, highly interactive, easy to use-point and click navigation with the mouse
PRICING*
Music Ace
Deluxe has a suggested retail price of $69.95
PUBLISHER
Harmonic Vision (800) 474-0903.
* Pricing subject to change.
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