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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
One of the leading providers of music video game software, Allegro Rainbow, has announced the release of Piano Wizard for Power PC and Intel based Macs. Piano Wizard is an award winning video game that can teach pretty much anyone to play piano using a variety of steps.
The method used is quite simple. First, users follow vertically the moving objects, this tells them what notes to hit. As the student progresses, the screen will rotate and the objects will move in a horizontal fashion, copying the lines of the staff on a sheet of music. After those first two steps, the objects become color coded notes on the grand staff, and finally transform to the traditional black music notes. Consumers can use Piano Wizard with any digital keyboard since the Wizard uses MIDI song files. These are available to download at online sites such as cybermidi.com and wizardtunes.com. Players have access to all their favorite music so their Wizard experience never gets old. As Bach put it many years ago: “learn by doing, simply by hitting the right key at the right time.”
“We are delighted to make our fun and exciting Piano Wizard videogame accessible to Mac users,” says Chris Salter, Allegro Rainbow CEO. “For the millions of Mac and iPod users who already enjoy downloading songs and listening to music, there is now yet another reason to buy a Mac. Piano Wizard is a breakthrough application that lets people learn to play the songs they already love to listen to.”
February 21st, 2007 at 4:22
As far as I can read on their website, the software also works with PowerPC Macs and requires at minimum Mac OS 10.2.