Piano Coach Launched
October 19th, 2004
Charanga is pleased to announce the launch of Piano Coach, the latest addition to their fantastic range of Music Coach PC CD-ROM software. Piano Coach is a great way for anyone to learn and play Piano. Whether you’re a complete beginner or have played in the past, Piano Coach will guide you easily through the important early piano skills and help you to play and perform attractive piano repertoire with confidence. Learn at your own pace with friendly in depth instruction and a host of easy to use interactive learning features. Develop a wonderful lifelong skill for the price of a single lesson.
Piano Coach contains over 400 inspiring lessons divided into 4 easy-to-follow Music Coach modules:
Module 1: Play Piano
A complete primer suitable for beginners, covering music reading, technique, and early performance pieces. With Play Piano you can learn the basics in a fun and interactive way and start to explore your full musical potential.
Module 2: Play Piano 2
Follows directly on from Play Piano and moves your playing on to the next level. With Play Piano 2 you’ll develop fluency, touch, and musical appreciation and play music by some of the greatest classical composers including Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, and Chopin.
Module 3: Enjoy Playing Piano
An outstanding collection of famous piano pieces for beginner to intermediate levels. From early pieces for children, through Bach and Beethoven, to Blues - enjoy playing these wonderful solo performance pieces.
Module 4: Virtuoso Piano Trainer
A modern way to practise the classic scales and exercises that for centuries have proven effective in building virtuoso piano skills. Including the scales and exercises from Grades 1 to 5, it’s also an invaluable help for everyone studying for piano exams.
4 exceptional modules in 1 great Piano Coach software package.
Key Features:
* Animated Piano and Roll show exactly what to play and what notes are coming up next
* Live cues tell you what to look out for as you’re playing, just like a good teacher
* Practice loops help you work on any tricky bits
* Left Hand / Right Hand Mixer feature allows you to learn hands separately before playing hands together easily
* Variable speed practice tracks enable you to choose a speed that suits your ability and learn and practise at your own pace
* Sheet music print out facility means you can enjoy playing away from the computer
Paul Fletcher, Charanga’s CEO says “Piano Coach is a massive addition to our range of musical instrument learning software.
October 19th, 2004
Learning to play Piano is more popular than ever especially among adults wishing to satisfy a lifelong held ambition. High quality software like this is a great way for people to teach themselves in the comfort of their own home and we’re all very excited about this latest release.”
Piano Coach was written by Jane Sebba, one of the UK’s most respected and prolific writers of tutorial books for piano and other instruments. Jane Sebba says, “Working on Piano Coach has been a massively rewarding experience particularly in making use of the many interactive features that give good software like this such a pedagogical advantage over the usual book/CD combinations. Using the software really is lots of fun and the practising support it offers I’m sure will help to accelerate people’s progress.”
Piano Coach will be available price £29.99 from November and will be available from PC World, WH Smiths and all good musical instrument shops.
Other titles in Charanga Music Coach range include Guitar Coach, Electric Guitar Coach, and Keyboard Coach. The range is available from PC World, WH Smiths and all good musical instrument shops.
About Charanga
Charanga are a British company specialising in the development and publishing of interactive musical instrument software. They are passionate about music and passionate about coaching. Their Music Coach software is the leading UK brand and with their success in North America, where their products are published under the Topics Instant Play brand, they can confidently claim to be the worlds best-selling instrument software.
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Sales and Marketing Director
Tom Wilkinson
Tel: 020 7704 8001