Piano Wizard Premier With 49E Keystation

by RE:LAUNCH

Product Features

• Keystation 49e Keyboard - The Keystation 49e is the perfect USB MIDI controller keyboard for getting started with music. Despite its simplicity, the Keystation 49e includes a 49-note full-size, velocity-sensitive keyboard for authentic playing experience, as well as built-in MIDI interface, pitch and modulation wheels, and sustain pedal input. This sleek, compact keyboard is USB bus-powered, requiring no external power supply. The affordable Keystation 49e is the perfect companion with which to
• Professional 49-note keyboard
• Pitch bend and modulation wheels
• Built-in USB MIDI Interface
• Easy Installation

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000B6N2NK
• Item model number: WFW-M49E0-GY
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 7, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,049 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Piano Wizard Premier is the music learning video game that painlessly teaches anyone to play the piano. It gives every player instant success and joy, because they will immediately be able to play their favorite songs--without the pain of practice! Piano Wizard Premier combines the fun of a video game with the fundamentals of piano lessons. That means your child can sit up to a keyboard today and play anything from Bach to Bon Jovi. What once felt like practice now feels like play.

What's more, you will never tire of the game. Piano Wizard Premier is a lifetime learning tool and family entertainment center. Children choose from four different fantasy worlds to play in. They can change the speed, the instrument sounds, the skill level, and more. And in addition to the MIDI songs that come standard with Piano Wizard Premier, thousands more can be downloaded from Internet libraries. With Piano Wizard Premier, your child can download and play any MIDI song from virtually any artist, whether classical, pop, rock, country, or alternative.

Because Piano Wizard only uses positive reinforcement, it's specifically designed to quickly build a player's confidence and self-esteem. The game automatically rewards players for touching the right note and ignores mistakes, encouraging, and conditioning players with fun and entertainment, to keep them practicing and playing while they learn practical music and piano skills.

The game’s patented sound and color learning cues transform tedious and repetitive practice sessions into an exciting and rewarding video-game experience for people of all ages and musical abilities. Package includes software, 200 songs/lessons, thousands of added songs, colored stickers, and a 49-note full-size keyboard with cable.

Product Description

Piano Wizard Premier is the music learning video game that painlessly teaches anyone to play the piano. It gives every player instant success and joy, because they will immediately be able to play their favorite songs without the pain of practice! The game's patented sound and color learning cues transform tedious and repetitive practice sessions into an exciting and rewarding video game experience for people of all ages and musical abilities. Piano Wizard Premier is a lifetime learning tool and family entertainment center. The game never wears out and never gets boring because you control the musical content. It uses thousands of MIDI song files available in music stores and on the internet as the basis of each musical game experience. Keyboard Stickers allow you to color code your keyboard to match the on-screen Piano Wizard keyboard. This makes it easy for beginning players to visually see what is happening

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My child loves it!!, December 5, 2006

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K. Chang (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Piano Wizard Premier With 49E Keystation (CD-ROM)

I was looking for a creative way to teach my daughter to play the piano. Piano Wizard is the answer! We are able to select a variety of songs, download new songs, and advance to more difficult levels. She is now reading music after only a few days. Piano Wizard makes learning fun!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars coolest thing i ever bought, November 14, 2009

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C. Ternoey "ct" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Piano Wizard Premier With 49E Keystation (CD-ROM)

this is coolest thing i ever bought. i wrote an email to my sister to propose that she get one and just thought i would paste it here for anyone interested.

also, i think this is great for all ages, but our discussion was related to training for 4-year old kids.

here is my email...

hey,

i am just writing to try to sell you on piano wizard, which i mentioned to you once over the summer.
i had one delivered to us in switzerland after our trip and **** (my 4-yr old kid) has learned a lot from this game.
i could imagine getting one for ***(her 4-yr old kid) for christmas.
but i would need to hear your feelings about it first.
you can learn a lot about it by looking at [...]
for us, it really has been a fun and easy way for **** (my 4-yr old kid) to learn piano.
here are some extra info for you to know about...

what she learned in just 8 weeks...
1. the first 2 songs used one octave of black keys. she learned to play 3 notes with her right hand and 2 with the left.
2. next few songs used different parts of the keyboard but still black keys only
3. next few songs introduced chords (left hand ocasionally playing 1 note at same time as right hand)
4. next few songs introduced hand movement (so she has to move one hand or the other to a new position)
5. next few songs introduced her to playing on the white keys. (much harder because you can not feel them as easily)
there are 88 songs left to go in the training set and i was easily able to load up a song of my choosing (yesterday by the beatles) after downloading an mdi file from the internet (similar to mp3 file)

at some point i switched her to level 2, where notes are going horizontally instead of vertically. this is a major step, but it is manageable. i think it constitutes huge progress on the path to reading music in standard notation.

i think some piano instruction does not introduce rhythm in the beginning, but of course this design makes it impossible to play out of rhythm (the keys are silent unless you press the one that is correct for the given moment of the song)

so, i generally think this is one of the coolest things i ever bought in my life.

however, in all honesty, there are a few cautions i should mention.

1. i can not walk away for more than 90 seconds while she is practicing. a few clicks are needed to set the tempo and select the song and after about 90 seconds it is usually time to do another mouse click on something so i am always needed to be there.

2. a large tv monitor might be needed. we somehow had a large tv/monitor that was not in use, so i arranged a dedicated space for her keyboard to be directly facing this large screen. if you use a tiny monitor or or a large monitor that is too far away, it might not be such a great experience. (and putting the keyboard up on your desk would not be correct hand positioning.)

3. before we did piano lessons in the morning, i tried to teach **** (my 4-yr old kid) about telling time. we used a kumon workbook every morning for 20 minutes and she really hated it. now, i tell her every morning... "are you ready for a fun lesson? do you prefer to practice piano? or clocks?" well, she happily chooses piano and feels lucky to get to do that. the constant threat of showing her some clocks again is really boosting her enthusiasm for piano. without this, i am not sure she would be so thrilled. (sorry to diss kumon here because i like them in gneral. but putting a 4-yr old in front of any age-7 workbook is going to be punishment)

so,.. you should check the web site and decide if you are a believer or not, if someone would have time to do this with ***(her 4-yr old kid) or not, and if you have space for a monitor or not.

-c

2.0 out of 5 stars Beware: Doesn't work with Windows 7, January 7, 2012

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she - See all my reviews

This review is from: Piano Wizard Premier With 49E Keystation (CD-ROM)

This software either doesn't work at all on Windows 7 (as is the case for me), or works very poorly (as I found mentioned in several people's blogs when trying to search for solutions). I recommend saving your money until version 2.0 is released.