Harmonic Vision Music Ace Deluxe

Harmonic Vision 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.

Harmonic Vision Music Ace Deluxe Features:
-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
-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 (keyboard optional)
-Tracks progress of 10 users

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.

Thirty-six engaging, self-paced lessons accelerate development of fundamental music skills and music theory. Lessons cover:
1. Introduction to the Staff
2. Intro. to the Piano Keyboard
3. Beat and Tempo 
4. Playing with Pitch 
5. The ABC's of the Piano Keyboard 
6. Hearing Rhythms
7. More Piano ABC's
8. The ABC's of the Staff 
9. Basic Rhythm Notation 
10. The ABC's of the Treble Staff 
11. More Treble Staff ABC's
12. The Quarter Rest 
13. Below the Treble Staff
14. Melody
15. Above the Treble Staff
16. The Measure 
17. The ABC's of the Bass Staff
18. Above the Bass Staff
19. Notes Longer Than a Beat 
20. Below the Bass Staff
21. Dotted Quarter Notes
22. Half Steps and Whole Steps
23. Rests
24. Sharps and Flats
25. Sharps and Flats on the Staff
26. Syncopation
27. The Key Signature
28. Introduction to Major Scales
29. Sixteenth Notes
30. Sharp Key Signatures
31. Three Sounds per Beat
32. The Time Signature
33. Flat Key Signatures
34. The 6/8 Time Signature
35. Minor Scales
36. Introduction to Harmony

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.

The Music Doodle Pad is a unique feature that 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.

The special Tracking Progress 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.

New features enable users 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).

Harmonic Vision Music Ace Deluxe System Requirements:
-Music Ace Deluxe is sold on a hybrid CD-ROM that runs on either Windows or Macintosh platforms.
-Windows
  -Windows 98/2000/Me/NT4/XP/Vista/7
  -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.
-Mac
  -PowerPC/iMac/G3/G4/G5
  -System 9 or OS X (native mode)
  -32 MB free RAM
  -640x480 256-color display
  -60 MB free hard disk space
  -CD-ROM drive and mouse
  -General MIDI keyboard OPTIONAL