Beginner's Piano/Keyboard Course : Playing Famous Songs, Scales and Arpeggios

This multimedia CD-ROM series from eMedia Music, the leading publisher of music instruction software, offers an exciting way to quickly learn to play piano or keyboard. Piano teacher Irma Irene Justicia, M.A., who has taught at the renowned Juilliard School of Music, guides with video demonstrations of techniques. Songs and exercises can be heard as either live recorded audio or variable-speed MIDI tracks. As the music plays, an animated keyboard guides the student through fingerings. When used with a MIDI keyboard, interactive feedback points out specific playing mistakes. Each volume includes a metronome, recorder and entertaining accompaniment tracks to play along with. The multimedia lessons and built-in accessories offer tremendous value and make learning fun and easy! Volume 2 - Playing and Creating Songs with Accompaniment: Over 70 easy-to-follow lessons teach how to play and create songs with accompaniment, applying intervals and techniques such as legato and staccato.