Piano Lessons for the PC Generation
November 5th, 2004
Do you struggle to persuade your child away from their PC to keep up with their piano practice? Well now there’s no need – this week sees the launch of Piano Coach, the latest edition to Charanga’s award winning range of Music Coach PC CD-ROM software, and with it, the chance for children to learn to play in an exciting and interactive way.
With extensive research demonstrating that learning piano can dramatically enhance a child’s intellectual capabilities, Piano Coach is designed to help improve your child’s concentration, co-ordination and reasoning. There is no need to coax them away from the computer screen to practise in front of an uninspiring piano text book, now they can learn through a range of PC based features – opening up the thrilling world of music for your child.
Piano Coach is fun to use and allows children to develop at their own pace, whatever their age or ability. From complete beginners to those wanting to brush up on old skills or reinforce traditional lessons - Piano Coach will guide users through important early piano skills, using innovative technology and proven teaching methods. Enjoy watching and listening over the months and years to come as your child becomes a skilled pianist for the price of a single lesson.
Written by Jane Sebba, one of the UK’s most respected music tutorial writers, Piano Coach utilises four easy to follow modules which together incorporate over 400 inspiring lessons.
The first module, ‘Play Piano’, provides beginners with all the elementary information - from music reading to early performance pieces - with an interactive system that allows children to start to explore their musical potential in a fun and easy way. Once the fundamentals are mastered, they will move on to ‘Play Piano 2’ – developing fluency, touch and musical appreciation whilst playing music by some of the greatest classical composers in history. Includes pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi and Chopin.
Musical potential will be further expanded with the outstanding collection of famous piano pieces in the ‘Enjoy Playing Piano’ module. Your child will be guided through every note with the computer at their side or they can take advantage of the sheet music print out facility to enjoy playing away from the computer. There is something to suit every musical taste from nursery rhymes to Bach, Beethoven and Blues.
Used for centuries as a tool for building piano skills, (scales and exercises) are at the very heart of playing piano. Piano Coach’s final module, the ‘Virtuoso Piano Trainer’, provides an effective and fun method of learning with a mixer that means your child can practise each hand separately as the computer provides accompaniment until both hands have been mastered. And with scales and arpeggios from Grade 1 to 5, it provides an invaluable tool for those (studying for) piano exams.
Additional features include: ‘Piano and Roll’, which guides players through each note, showing exactly what to play and which notes are coming up next, and ‘Practice Loop’, which helps learners to progress at their own rate by choosing a speed which suits their own ability, going over the tricky bits in small sections repeatedly until they have been mastered.
Help your child become a Piano virtuoso with Piano Coach, available from PC World, all good musical Instrument shops and direct from MusicCoach.com.
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Note to Editors:
Charanga is a British company specialising in the development and publishing of interactive musical instrument software. They are passionate about music and passionate about coaching. Its Music Coach software its the leading UK brand and with the company’s success in the USA, where its products are published under the Topics Instant Play brand, Charanga can confidently claim to be the world’s best-selling instrument software. Other titles in the Charanga Music Coach range include: Guitar Coach; Electric Guitar Coach and Keyboard Coach.
Contacts Details:
For further information or photography, please contact Helen Marriott or Poppy Smith at Kudo Communications
Tel: 020 8332 2644