Learning To Play Piano Can Be Enjoyable!
Exciting computer game programs which actually imparts skills for use in the real world is not easy to find --
especially in the category of music education.
Computer software games are a huge and burgeoning industry because kids are completely enthralled by them.
Why not harness the attention-focusing power of computer games by integrating piano instruction software with a fun,
interactive gaming engine?
Applications that provides users a non-violent alternative to conventional computer games, which are at the same
time fun, compelling, and challenging, could also transmit musical literacy quite effectively.
Such a fusion would have the unique capacity to transform the normally tedious and repetitive piano practice
into an exciting, very rewarding video game adventure – once and for all taking the "yuck!" out of each piano practice --
forever.
Using gaming software to make piano practice fun would resolve several challenges.
Parents wouldn't feel obliged to nag their kids to practice (they might actually have the opposite challenge –
they may have to nag their children to STOP practicing).
Music teachers wouldn't need to worry whether their students will actually practice before their next lesson.
On the students' side of things, the shear numbers of people to which learning the piano could be made reachable
would be expanded tremendously.
And, perhaps first and foremost, piano students will connect fun and fulfillment with the piano instead of
anguish and struggle.
Allegro Rainbow, makers of Piano Wizard, appears to have discovered that magical combination.
They are ardently determined to bring FUN piano practice software to the marketplace -- thanks to a great
product idea and design environment.
Chris Salter, the founder of Allegro Rainbow, states, "Piano Wizard represents a significant shift in the
way we introduce music to kids as well as adults, with many people thinking that it simply can't be done, or
conversely, that they have seen this before.
Because of these perceptions, we knew we [had to] let people see for themselves that the gateways to music
are now wide open for everyone.”
Be aware that Piano Wizard isn't the only piano practice software in the marketplace.
There are at least ten or more alternatives to choose from including Teach Me Piano, Piano Suite Premier,
and Instant Play Piano.
Notwithstanding, none of these are actually computer games, but are educational software focussed on teaching
skills – not so much of the keep-them-glued magic of Piano Wizard.
Teach Me Piano includes some games as accessories, but they are not a central part of their program.
So, indeed Allegro Rainbow has led the way by joining piano instruction with gaming software.
Jesse Fisher, likes to write about interesting new developments in the musical software industry.
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Jazzy Bear Learns to Play the Piano to learn more about this
milestone in educational software.
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