Jim
I spent some time a few years ago with the Adventus Interactive Piano
Suite using my disklavier as the midi instrument.\ufffd It is reasonably
good software although I feel it is aimed more at children than
adults.\ufffd
My preference in terms of software for learning to play the piano for
use with the disklavier is Voyetra's Teach Me Piano (http://voyetra.com/site/products/tmp/tmp_dlx.asp)
and here is a link to one of several reviews that I found in Google: http://piano-lesson-software-review.toptenreviews.com/teach-me-piano-review.html.
When I retired about five years ago, I spent my first year with
my
disklavier as my teacher using this software.\ufffd\ufffd
I completed the entire course of 150 lessons in about 14 months and had
learned to play all 75 of the pieces in the course.\ufffd I found that the
disklavier's ability to play one part while I played another to be of
considerable help in learning a piece, especially a piece with rhythmic
complexities (e.g. dotted note rhythms). The Voyetra software will also
score your performance of the music in this courseware on both pitch
accuracy (i.e. did you play the right note) and on rhythmic accuracy.\ufffd
The former (pitch accuracy) is 100% reliable.\ufffd The later (rhythmic
accuracy) is not reliable for any but the most simple pieces.\ufffd In other
words, once you start playing pieces with a complicated left and right
hand, it is necessary to simply ignore the rhythmic scoring that the
software assigns to your playing.\ufffd Bottom line: if you are a beginning
piano student (as I was) then the disklavier with software such as this
is a very good way to begin learning to play the piano.\ufffd However, it is
no substitute for a good teacher, as I found when I began taking
lessons when I finished the Teach Me Piano software and have continued
to do so ever since.\ufffd I'll be happy to go into greater detail on any of
the above if
you wish to contact me by private e-mail.\ufffd
Tom
Jim Schelling wrote:
Show quoted textHide quoted text
Has anyone had any experience with Adventus Interactive Piano Suite in
\ufffdonline\ufffd mode? And, using the software with a Diskclavier?