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Piano Wizard Academy w Suzuki Piano w Videogame NEW | |
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movie sheet music songbook THE WIZARD OF OZ easy piano | |
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The Wizard of Oz für Cello und Piano Songbook CD | |
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When You Love Love Wizard of OZ Mandolin Guitar Piano | |
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The Wizard of Oz Big Note Piano Deluxe Songbook Alfre | |
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The Wizard of Oz Easy Piano Deluxe Songbook Alfred Pu | |
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1969 THE WIZARD OF OZ PIANO ARRANGEMENT SONGBOOK | |
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The Wizard of Oz Big Note Piano Song Book D Coates | |
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The Wizard of Oz 5 Finger Piano Song Book | |
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THE WIZARD OF OZ Piano Vocal Chords Song Book Garland | |
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New Orleans Piano Wizard Live by James Booker CD | |
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The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniv Big Note Piano Song Book | |
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The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary 5 Finger Piano Book | |
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The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Easy Piano Song Book | |
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The Wizard of Oz Deluxe Songbook Piano Vocal Chord | |
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WIZARD OF OZ 70TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION EASY PIANO BOOK | |
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Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz Sheet Piano Mu | |
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Were Off to See the Wizard Sheet Piano Music by Harold | |
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The Wizard of Oz Instrumental Solos Book CD Piano Acc | |
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The Wizard of Oz Book Piano Arr Dan Coates | |
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Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz Sheet Piano Vo | |
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The Wizard of Oz Deluxe Songbook Piano | E y Harburg | |
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The Wizard of Oz Piano Arrangements Book | Dan Coates | |
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WIZARD OF OZ 70th ANNIVERSARY PIANO MUSIC BOOK CD NEW | |
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NEW ORLEANS PIANO WIZARD LIVE By BOOKERJAMES CD New | |
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The Wizard of Oz Easy Piano Deluxe Songbook NEW | |
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Wizard Of Oz 70th Anniversary Piano Vocal Guitar Book | |
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US $24.38 | 17d 6h 35m |
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BOOKERJAMES NEW ORLEANS PIANO WIZARD LIVE CD NEW | |
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US $11.53 | 19d 3h 10m |
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Wizard Of Oz For Easy Piano Sheet Music Book | |
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The Wizard of Oz Instrumental Solos Piano Accompanimen | |
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NEW New Orleans Piano Wizard Live James Booker | |
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THE WIZARD OF OZ DELUXE PIANO VOCAL CHORDS MUSIC BOOK | |
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Humbug Wizard Clara Jean Rowles Piano Sheet Music | |
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The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniv Piano Vocal Chords Book | |
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US $13.95 | 20d 17h 1m |
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The Wizard of Oz 9 Magical Melodies Arranged for Piano | |
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NEW I CAN PLAY THE PIANO WIZARD METHOD LOT OF 3 | |
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WIZARD OF OZ Easy Piano Coates | |
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PIANO WIZARD Premier Instructional Software PC MAC Game | |
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The Wizard of Oz Piano Arrangements NEW | |
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US $13.71 | 23d 19h 19m |
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Booker James New Orleans Piano Wizard Live | |
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The Wizard of Oz Instrumental Solos Piano Acc Book CD | |
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US $12.95 | 23d 23h 37m |
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JULIE LAVENDER Good Woman THE WIZARD OF OZ Sax PIANO Cd | |
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Piano Wizard Premier Software NO MIDI KEYBOARD | |
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Piano Wizard PREMIER Software and USB Midi Combo | |
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US $149.95 | 25d 17h 34m |
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Wizard of Oz Easy Piano Dan Coates NEW BOOK | |
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The Wizard Of Oz Easy Piano Sheet Music Book 9 Fab Song | |
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EVERYONE PIANO WIZARD Software Klavier englisch NEU | |
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The Wizard of Oz Piano Vocal Chords Song Book | |
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US $9.00 | 28d 11h 18m |
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Wizard Of Oz 70th Anniversary Easy Piano Sheet Book | |
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US $22.83 | 28d 14h 2m |
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Wizard Of Oz 70th Anniversary Big Note Piano Sheet Book | |
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The Wizard of Oz Big Note Piano Deluxe Songbook NEW | |
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The Wizard of Oz Movie Selections Piano Vocal Chords | |
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The Wizard of Oz Piano Vocal Chords Lyrics EY N | |
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EUBIE BLAKE wizard of the ragtime piano LP mint FRANCE | |
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Anyone know a good free midi keyboard trainer / game for PC and MIDI keyboard?
I've been looking for something fun like Piano Wizard but freeware or shareware. I'd like a program / game where you are trained to hit the right notes by something graphical happening on the screen. Ideally one where you can load ordinary MIDI files instead of having to buy extra files.
no, sorry
Piano Wizard teaches aspiring musicians
Monique Garcia
Daily Egyptian
For Chris Salter, learning how to play the piano came easy. But learning how to actually read music was not.
This challenge inspired Salter, a 1983 graduate in linguistics and music, to develop Piano Wizard, a video game that taches users to play piano through a color-coded keyboard and on-screen prompts. The game is already being sold by major online retailers and should reach shelves by the end of the year.
While fun and entertaining, Piano Wizard aims at teaching aspiring musicians how to read music through graduated game play.
In the game's beginner levels, colorful icons or "notes," such as dinosaur eggs and rocket ships travel on a straight line from the bottom of the screen toward an on-screen keyboard at the top. When the icons reach the keys on the screen, players hit a corresponding colored key on an electronic keyboard, which plugs into the computer.
As the game advances, notes scroll across the screen horizontally, imitating the lines of the staff and the way music is read. Advanced users can import electronic music files and play along to learn scores and arrangements.
"When most kids start playing the piano, they have a 90 percent failure rate, but it's not the music, it's the way we teach music," Salter said. "This kind of takes the torture out of it, takes the abstractness out of learning how to read the musical language."
Salter said he first thought of inventing the game shortly after graduating from SIUC. He entered the University in 1978 to study cinematography and began producing films about music.
Shortly after, Salter met piano instructor Don Beattie, who came to the School of Music in 1979, and began taking piano lessons with the new faculty member. While Beattie helped Salter learn to play piano before he graduated, Salter said he never mastered reading music.
Then, a few months after graduating in 1983, Salter took keyboarding classes to learn how to type. He said the lessons were frustrating until he played a typing game, and soon he was typing 40 words per minute. It dawned on him that a piano video game could have the same effect.
After years of consideration, Salter decided to form a business to develop and manufacture the game. Allegro Multimedia was born in August 2001; following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the dot-com business bust, finding investors was difficult.
But $3.5 million and a few patents later, Piano Wizard is riding on the popularity of the video game market. Last year alone, video games made for a $12 billion industry.
Salter said CompUSA recently placed a large order to sell the game, and online retail giants, such as target.com and amazon.com, already sell the game. On target.com, the game retails for $109.99.
He also said a major toy manufacturer is looking into developing the game further for sales late next year and an infomercial featuring the game will debut nationally on Wednesday.
Throughout the process, Salter kept his connection with Beattie and with the SIU School of Music.
This fall, with the help of Beattie, and his wife Delayna Beattie, a Piano Wizard academy was founded in conjunction with the School of Music.
Comprising mostly of 4- to 8-year-olds from the Child Development Laboratory, the academy focuses on teaching children to play the piano and read music through playing the game.
Children work with adult mentors from the School of Music, along with Don and Delayna Beattie, to learn simple songs on the game. After practicing the song on an electronic keyboard, children move to actual pianos to apply what they learned.
The academy and its students are featured in the infomercial, and students from the Department of Radio and Television are developing a documentary about the game and the academy.
"It's a wonderful and extraordinary game that will ultimately help a whole lot of people," Don Beattie said. "It's a wonderful starting point that allows them to read a dozen pieces a day and helps them become literate readers of music while still having fun. Music is a language, and this helps increase their vocabulary."
Last week, 10 children packed the academy's cozy studio space one afternoon in the Old Baptist Foundation, singing along to "Merrily we roll along," which they were learning to play on the game.
After stopping for a brief lesson about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and reviewing music notes, the 3- and-4-year-olds ran to the computers set up with the game. Perched on booster seats and sometimes the lap of a mentor, the children played along, getting instant feedback from the game about their timing and tempo.
"I got a 98 percent!" one little girl shouted out before turning back to the screen to tackle the song again, hoping for a perfect score.
"Don and I are firm believers that music is a birthright not reserved for the elite," Salter said. "It should be open to all, not just those who have access to classical education. Music is something joyful and joins people at a spiritual level, and allowing everyone to have that is a beautiful thing."
About the Author
Monique Garcia writes on a variety of topics for The Daily Egyptian at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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