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Transform Your Playing Today! Piano Lessons Teach Blues Piano, Advanced Piano Chords, Technique, Music Theory and Piano Improvisation! If you've already mastered basic piano skills, then this is the piano software you need. Vadim Ghin, M.A., who has taught at the renowned Juilliard School of Music, delivers over 150 intermediate-to-advanced piano lessons designed to help you improve piano technique, understand music theory, learn how to play blues piano and get started with piano improvisation. Interactive Feedback technologies make this piano tutorial easy to understand and you can click immediately to any of the piano lessons so you learn faster. The piano software includes 50 classic piano pieces, from composers like Chopin, Irving Berlin and Jelly Roll Morton, to make learning piano fun.Whether you want to work on piano technique, play a piano solo, learn new piano chords or master classic piano pieces - the piano lessons found in eMedia Intermediate Piano & Keyboard Method piano software takes your playing to the next level. Over 150 Step-by-Step Piano Lessons Offer a comprehensive curriculum that will teach the intermediate piano player the skills needed to take their playing to the next level. Beginning with intervals and expanded hand positions, the lessons progress through building dexterity, advanced rhythms and transitions, interpretive expression marks and voicing, and, finally, to blues improvisation based on the blues and the piano in Ensemble.Intermediate Piano and Keyboard Method offers over 50 songs with a focus on blues, classics, conventional scales, chord progressions, improvisation and other techniques necessary for mastering the piano: Beethoven ("Ecossaise") Liszt ("Hungarian Rhapsody") Tchaikovsky ("Swan Lake") Dukas ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice") Chopin (Ballade No. 4) W. C. Handy ("St. Louis Blues") Irving Berlin ("The Schoolhouse Blues") Rachmaninoff (Third Piano Concerto) Mozart (Twenty-First Piano Concerto) "Jelly Roll" Morton ("Jelly Roll Blues") Note and Finger Tracker The Note Tracker and Finger Tracker tools show you the note you play as music notation and on eMedia's Animated Keyboard. You'll be able to correct your playing and learn to read music faster! Vadim Ghin, M.M Author of the innovative eMedia Intermediate Piano and Keyboard Method, holds a Masters Degree in Piano from the Julliard School of Music and has taught extensively at Juilliard, New York University and the Manhattan School of Music. Over 50 Piano Lesson Videos Professional piano instructor Vadim Ghin, M.A., guides you with over 50 videos demonstrating techniques - now larger, with enhanced quality! Many of the videos include split-screen displays with close-ups for a clearer perspective. You can even view them in full-screen mode if you want to. Animated Keyboard Displays color-coded fingerings as the music plays. It allows you to see exactly how to play the song on a keyboard as you hear the music. Music tracking highlights the notes being played on the screen making it simple to follow along. Live Recorded Audio Live recorded audio is included for every song and exercise. Variable-speed MIDI Slows down the audio to any tempo, while the Animated Keyboard shows song fingerings as the music plays. You can play along and Learn at the pace best suited to you! MIDI playback options let you select left or right hand only or a tick metronome track to play along with. Colorful variable-speed MIDI accompaniments are also available and can be fun to play along with! Instant Feedback and Interactive Evaluation Feedback For selected exercises, Instant Feedback shows you when you play the correct notes as you progress through a melody. Your computer will listen as you play and highlight correctly played notes in green. This works for both acoustic pianos and electronic keyboards. When using an electronic MIDI-compatible keyboard with selected exercises, you can get specific feedback on note and rhythm mistakes. Clicking on an individual feedback balloon brings up a keyboard showing you exactly what mistake was made and what should have been played. Also, an overall percentage score summarizes how well you did on the exercise. Reviews and Ear Training Interactive review and ear training screens help reinforce new concepts and develop your ear. Song Highlighting and Looping Highlight an entire page or just a portion of a song and loop it for playback at whatever speed you are comfortable playing. Selected loops are now introduced with the MIDI tick count-off, so there's enough time to get your hands back to the keyboard to play along; thus, you can follow along regardless of what section of the piece you're working on. Orchestral and Jazz Accompaniment Tracks Selected pieces include orchestral accompaniment and even a jazz band with which to play along. Piano Fingerings The piano fingerings help teach you the correct fingering for each note and can be toggled on or off for any screen. Digital Metronome Allows you to set your own tempo and work on your speed, rhythm and timing. Provides both visual cue and/or audio tick. Full range of tempi, from largo to presto. Digital Recorder Record and play yourself back! This feature allows you to compare your recordings with the instructor's version, fine tune your skills and share your recordings with friends and family.
