Music Ace Deluxe™ combines 36 of the highly-engaging music lessons from the award-winning Music Ace and Music Ace 2 products into a single, carefully sequenced product. Designed by music education professionals, Music Ace Deluxe is a comprehensive series of music lessons and games that teach beginning music students of all ages the basics of music theory, rhythm, pitch, note reading, listening, and the keyboard. No previous musical experience or instrument is required. Under the guidance of animated tutor Maestro Max, students are led through a carefully sequenced series of music lessons. Used alone or as a complement to traditional music lessons, this program will challenge, engage and motivate music students and help them succeed by mastering important music concepts and skills.
Music Ace Deluxe also includes the creative Music Doodle Pad that allows beginners to easily compose and hear their own musical creations. The Music Doodle Pad alone provides many hours of fun and learning.
This program will challenge, engage and motivate music students and help them succeed by mastering important music concepts and skills.
Features
- Easy to use, self-paced learning
- Complements traditional music instruction
- Appropriate for students of any instrument
- Create and play your own music
- Compatible with General MIDI keyboards (optional)
Games
Thirty six exciting multi-level games (one per lesson) sharpen music skills and improve retention of important lesson concepts. Colorful animated 3-D graphics, digitized sound effects, bonus points and high scores provide fun, interactive entertainment. Users can select novice or advanced difficulty settings.
Music Doodle Pad
This unique feature allows individuals to easily compose their own music using a variety of instrument sounds. These creative compositions can be saved and played back for others, showcasing the knowledge and skills acquired from the lessons and games. Users can also listen to and modify popular music selections from the Jukebox section of the Music Doodle Pad.
Tracking Progress
Special feature tracks an individual's progress through lessons and games. A "completion count" provides the number of times the user has gone through each section of a lesson and "games progress" provides high scores.
Instructional And Appearance Settings
New features enable user to select clef instruction (treble and bass, treble only, bass only or alto only), determine rhythmic stringency (relaxed or strict), determine game difficulty (novice or advanced), and also adjust the appearance of the notes and instruments (with or without faces).
Points Of Distinction
- Ideal for beginning and intermediate music students, young or old-any instrument
- Accelerates learning music fundamentals-develops and reinforces essential aspects of learning music
- Exceptional value-affordable combination of lessons, games and a composition feature
- Excellent motivational tool-excites students about learning music
- Users develop real musical skills, not just an introduction to music
- Entertaining, highly interactive, easy to use-point and click navigation with the mouse
Lessons
- Introduction to the Staff
- Notes Longer Than a Beat
- Intro. to the Piano Keyboard
- Below the Bass Staff
- Beat and Tempo
- Dotted Quarter Notes
- Playing with Pitch
- Half Steps and Whole Steps
- The ABCs of the Piano Keyboard
- Rests
- Hearing Rhythms
- Sharps and Flats
- More Piano ABC's
- Sharps and Flats on the Staff
- The ABCs of the Staff
- Syncopation
- Basic Rhythm Notation
- The Key Signature
- The ABCs of the Treble Staff
- Introduction to Major Scales
- More Treble Staff ABC's
- Sixteenth Notes
- The Quarter Rest
- Sharp Key Signatures
- Below the Treble Staff
- Three Sounds per Beat
- Melody
- The Time Signature
- Above the Treble Staff
- Flat Key Signatures
- The Measure
- The 6/8 Time Signature
- The ABC's of the Bass Staff
- Minor Scales
- Above the Bass Staff
- Introduction to Harmony
System Requirements
Mac
- PowerPC/iMac/G3/G4
- System 9 or OS X
- 32 MB free RAM
- 640x480 256-color display
- 60 MB free hard disk space
- CD-ROM drive and mouse
- General MIDI keyboard Optional
PC
- Windows 98/2000/Me/NT4/XP
- Pentium 166 MHz or faster
- 32 MB free RAM
- 640x480 256-color display
- 60 MB free hard disk space
- 16-bit sound
- CD-ROM drive and mouse
- General MIDI keyboard Optional
