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| What you need to run Etude Sight
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Etude Sight Reader and
Lesson Files
 Version 1.4 now
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| How to buy Etude Sight Reader - Please read
this before making payment.
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Support |
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| Requirements |
- Windows 98SE, Me, NT4, 2000, or XP
- MIDI interface for your PC (many
Sound Cards have one), and a Windows driver for
it
- MIDI keyboard or other MIDI
input device
- Sound Card or MIDI Keyboard/Synth for listening
to MIDI results
- Display driver and monitor: at least 800x600,
256-color. Suggested settings are 1024x768, 64k color
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Etude Sight Reader
Etude Sight Reader is a Music Sight-Reading
Trainer for the
PC.
Etude Sight Reader presents you
with musical notes and phrases to which you respond by playing the
notes or phrase on your MIDI instrument.
And Etude Sight Reader
indicates your correct and wrong notes on the screen.
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| Etude Sight
Reader makes it easy to learn to read
music.
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Features
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Note recognition - practice for notes and chords |
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Phrase playing to practice correct rhytm, note and rest timing and durations |
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Instant visual feedback |
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Gradual increase in difficulty, adding single elements at a time |
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Example phrases to illustrate rhythmic elements |
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Randomized choice of notes and phrases to discourage "learning by ear" |
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Control the program via your MIDI keyboard} |
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Create your own lesson files with a MIDI editor/sequencer |
Why Sight-Read?
The
ability to read a musical phrase at sight is considered invaluable
by the vast majority of musicians.
- Sight-reading ability gives
one access to the vast literature of published sheet music -
Classical, Jazz, Contemporary and all other styles
- Musicians who can sight-read
are much more likely to get work as session musicians, for
recording and for live performance
- The ability to sight-read
greatly speeds up one’s training as a musician because he or she
is able to read examples, studies and
exercises
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Problems of Learning Sight-Reading
Traditional methods of learning to
sight-read often require a teacher to spend long periods of time
with the student, giving feedback and correction. The student is
encouraged to practice sight-reading at home, but here he or she is
deprived of the feedback of the teacher. Many students learn the
piece they are reading through repetition, so that after a few times
through, they are not really practicing reading anymore, but are
playing the piece from memory.
Many misconceptions regarding
sight-reading are prevalent, such as:
- it is “too difficult to
learn”
- it “takes too much time”
- it is “only necessary for
Classical Music”
However, many
musicians who have a good sight-reading ability agree that the only
secret to this skill is lots of practice.
Etude Sight Reader makes practice time much more productive
and more enjoyable
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How Etude Sight Reader Improves the Process of Learning
Sight-Reading
- Both Note Recognition and
Timing (rhythm) are addressed. All key signatures and accidentals
are supported. In Note Mode, Etude Sight Reader will even adapt the time
allowed for a note or chord dynamically in response to how quick
the student is.
- The difficulty of the
sight-reading material may be gradually increased from easy to
more difficult. A single new note, rest, duration, accidental, or
other element may be added at a time, resulting in a smooth
increase of ability
- Etude Sight Reader provides instant
feedback to the student about his playing, indicating correct and
wrong notes and timing. This allows the student to practice more
effectively without a teacher
- Etude Sight Reader forces playing “in
time” to a metronome – one of the aspects of sight-reading
discipline most frequently neglected
- Etude Sight Reader randomizes the
musical material presented, to prevent students from “learning”
the material by ear, rather than reading it on sight
- If you are a music teacher
interested in creating your own lesson files, please consult the
Etude Lesson File Spec provided with the software
or
contact us
for information.
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