Intelligent Practice Software with Thousands of Exercises
MakeMusic's SmartMusic is a complete music practice system featuring Intelligent Accompaniment technology that listens to musicians sing or play through a microphone and follows their spontaneous tempo changes. SmartMusic's Intelligent Accompaniment offers students the opportunity to practice with a good virtual accompanist making practice fun, and when practice is fun, kids practice more. And with over 30,000 solo titles to choose from, the number of songs that a student can have accompaniment on is nearly limitless.
MakeMusic SmartMusic at a Glance:- Gives students control of tempo
- Provides instant feedback
- More than 50,000 scales, arpeggios, and rhythm exercises
- Great for beginners as well as more experienced players
- Exercises to help students develop playing-by-ear skills
Gives students control of tempo
Make Music's SmartMusic allows the student control over the tempo while still enjoying the many benefits of accompaniment. Students can practice music slowly until they can get every note right. Then, as they gain confidence, they can gradually build up speed. The ability to hear oneself is an invaluable learning tool, and SmartMusic's built-in recording capability allows students to record their performances and immediately review and analyze their playing. Recordings can also be e-mailed to teachers for additional feedback, shared with family and friends, archived to track progress, or sent to college auditions and with scholarship applications.
Provides instant feedback
SmartMusic's revolutionary assessment feature gives students immediate feedback. As a student plays an exercise or song, SmartMusic assesses the notes the student played, with correctly played notes appearing in green and red notes indicating an incorrect pitch or rhythm. This immediate feedback gives students the opportunity to improve before the next lesson. SmartMusic even grades the assessment based upon the percentage of correct (green) notes and rhythms. With SmartMusic at home, students can complete assignments on their own and e-mail the grade, assessment screenshot, and a recording to their teacher with the click of a button.
More than 50,000 scales, arpeggios, and rhythm exercises
SmartMusic makes learning fundamental skills such as scales and arpeggios challenging and fun. More than 50,000 scale, interval, arpeggio, twister, and rhythm exercises are included in SmartMusic. Each can be customized to any key and articulation, with multiple accompaniment styles to choose from, and on-screen with assessment and grading. SmartMusic also includes a chromatic tuner and a built-in metronome click to aid in tuning and timing for the student. A transpose function allows the student to change the key of any song to match their instrument or vocal range.
Great for beginners as well as more experienced players
SmartMusic is great for student of any experience level, but there are useful tools to get beginners started quickly. SmartMusic's unique practice loop lets students isolate and repeat difficult measures. Start slowly and build speed, focusing on the areas that need the most work. And if a student is unsure of the fingering for any note, they need only to click on it. A fingering chart - specific to that note and the student's instrument - appears on the screen. With SmartMusic, students can listen to just the solo line, just the accompaniment, or hear them both together. SmartMusic allows the flexibility to meet each student's needs.
Exercises to help students develop playing-by-ear skills
SmartMusic has tools to nurture the creative side of music as well. There are exercises to help students develop playing-by-ear skills, improvisation skills, as well as familiarizing them with jazz. SmartMusic is an extremely flexible and useful music education tool, providing technical skills while keeping music fun and creative, just as it should be.
- Over 30,000 accompaniment songs available
- Tempo of accompaniment changes with the student's playing
- Built-in assessment provides instant feedback
- Record function offers easy means of sharing progress with teachers and family
- Learn fundamentals as well as creative aspects of music performance
