Learning To Play Piano Can Be A Positive Experience!

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Exciting video game software which actually imparts skills for use in the real world is not easy to find — especially in the area of music instruction. 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?

Computer programs that provides kids a non-violent option to regular video games, which are simultaneously, compelling, and challenging, could also convey musical literacy quite efficiently. Such a combination would have the unrivaled ability to alter the normally tiresome and repetitive piano practice into an exciting, deeply satisfying video game adventure – ultimately taking the disagreeableness out of each piano practice — forever.

Using gaming software to make piano practice fun would solve some particularly vexing problems. Parents wouldn’t feel the need to nag their kids to practice (they are more likely to have the opposite problem – they may have to nag their children to STOP practicing).

Music teachers need not fear whether their students will make any progress between lessons. On the students’ side of things, the shear numbers of people to which learning the piano could be made accessible would greatly increase. And, perhaps first and foremost, piano students will connect fun and attainment with the piano instead of anguish and frustration.

Allegro Rainbow, makers of Piano Wizard and the soon-to-be-released Guitar Wizard, seems to have discovered that magical fusion. They are ardently determined to bring FUN piano practice software to the marketplace — thanks to a sound product concept and design environment.

Chris Salter, the CEO of Allegro Rainbow, declares, “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.”

You should know that Piano Wizard isn’t the only piano practice software out there. There are around ten or more titles to choose from including Teach Me Piano, Piano Suite Premier, and Instant Play Piano. Nonetheless, none of these are in fact video games, but are educational software focused on teaching skills – not so much of the keep-them-glued magic of Piano Wizard. Teach Me Piano includes some games “on the side”, but they are not a main element of their program. So, in actuality Allegro Rainbow has broken new ground by melding piano instruction with gaming software.

Jesse Fisher, enjoys writing about fascinating new developments in the musical software industry. Visit Piano Wizard Academy to learn more about this landmark in educational software.

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