Re: MIDI Piano System as Teaching Tool ?
By Larry Fisher
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> It seems like the Pianomation and other similar systems would be a natural
> for teaching use with midi files of four-hands pieces with only two hands
> recorded and the student playing the "missing" other two hands part, or other
> similar ideas. Anybody have such files?
I've talked with teacher about this. She claims that there is a certain amount of anticipating, waiting, responding, and the like that happens when two people play together. This makes playing with a machine a problem. That particular aspect of practice doesn't come out.
Perhaps..............
After the initial few times through the piece, when the participant knows all the notes, and when to play them, the challenge of trying to play with the perfect companion is gone.
Or perhaps...........
There are times when the participant needs to play solo, and the machine needs to wait. Time being the only link here, the machine could start playing again late or early depending on how inaccurate the other timing devices (your head, metronome, digital timer, etc.) were. With out sync pulses coming from the machine into the pacemaker of the participant, the participant doesn't know how far ahead or behind they are.
Then again mayhaps...
Some people are intimidated by mechanical piano music and don't feel it should be a part of this planet's existence. Some people are more willing to admit this than others. That translates into some people just not jiving with the mechanical beast and not really knowing why. Frustration abounds and pianos start flying out the windows.
A nice idea, however, I don't think this generation is quite up to speed. Give it about ten years and I think there'll be some real progress in that field. I just hope the new technology doesn't engineer themselves right out of the industry like electronic organs did.
Chow dudes and dudettes.
--- Larry Fisher RPT, Portland Metro's Authority on PianoDisc Systems
For more information call (360) 256-2999 in Vancouver, Wa.
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