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Hybrid
Includes both a Mac and Windows version of the program.
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What is SmartMusic?
The essential practice tool for students in band, orchestra, and choir
Students never practice alone when they have SmartMusic at home. This interactive, computer-based practice system helps students get better faster, and makes practicing more fun. With amazing accompaniments for more than 30,000 titles, challenging exercises, and the ability to record personal CDs, SmartMusic is the future of music learning.
With SmartMusic loaded on a computer, students plug in a vocal or instrumental microphone and begin practicing. They play or sing their part with accompaniment and receive, in real time on the computer, detailed feedback on their performance. Ideal for woodwind, brass, string, and vocal musicians of all levels.
Make Practicing Fun!
You never play alone when you have SmartMusic
SmartMusic is your instant backup band
Have you ever played Jingle Bells with a rock band or a symphony orchestra? Or La Bamba with a Mariachi or disco band? Who would have thought you could do that? With SmartMusic, you have an instant backup band right in your practice room. Play songs you know with all kinds of different groups while you learn to play an instrument. Definitely better than practicing by yourself!
Record yourself playing and make your own CD
SmartMusic lets you record yourself playing with your backup band as accompaniment. You can be the star of your own CD! Hear how you sound, give copies to your parents and grandparents as gifts, and share your music with friends.
With SmartMusic, anything you play can be instantly recorded and burned to a CD. You can even introduce the song with a voice greeting, and then play to make it even cooler.
Get better, faster
When you’re learning to play an instrument, it’s not always easy to know when you’re playing a song correctly, especially if you’ve never even heard the song before! SmartMusic helps you get through it.
When you play with SmartMusic, the software follows what you’re playing and shows you on the computer screen how well you’re doing. When you play a note correctly, it turns green on the computer screen, right before your eyes. The notes you miss turn red to help you figure out where you need more practice. Make it a game to see how many green notes you can get.
If you need a reminder on how to play a note, click the note and SmartMusic will show you the correct fingering. SmartMusic is there to help you learn more quickly.
Move at your own pace
You learn at your own pace when you use SmartMusic. Start practicing slowly until you get the hang of it, and then increase the tempo. SmartMusic puts you in control. If you already know the assignment your teacher gave you, you can move ahead to new songs. Pick any of the hundreds of songs from the other books in SmartMusic and have fun exploring new music!
Give a great performance
When you’ve prepared that solo for contest or practiced those chord changes for your solo in the jazz ensemble, you know the feeling – you’re prepared. Knowing how it will sound when you get together with your accompanist, or how the rhythm section will be playing behind your improvised solo, you feel prepared to give them your best performance. That’s the feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment you get from SmartMusic.
Features:
- SmartMusic Impact™—Easily manage, grade, and document assignments for all your students with this effective, web-based grade book, included with all Educator subscriptions.
- Create assignments with audio-quality accompaniment for any concert selection: SmartMusic supports any piece of music you choose! Simply upload the audio file and distribute sheet music; then your band, orchestra, and choir students can practice their part with accompaniment in SmartMusic.
- Educator-approved SmartMusic assignments help all students improve quickly. It’s easy for music teachers to give students graded homework assignments. Band, jazz band, and orchestra titles in version 10.0 include pre-authored practice assignments for all parts, so you can guide how, and what, students practice – even at home.
- Compatibility with SmartMusic accompaniments created in Finale® 2007
- Support for Intel-based Macintosh computers
- Percussion assessment in large ensemble titles and Standard of Excellence, Book 2.
SmartMusic Impact is a web-based grade book that automates administrative tasks to save you time
SmartMusic Impact is an effective and efficient way for teachers to guide and document the individual development for every student. SmartMusic Impact automatically:
- Distributes teacher-selected, instrument-specific assignments to all students
- Tracks all returned and late assignments
- Calculates grades for assignments based on the teacher’s grading criteria
- Collects audio recordings of student assignments
- Shows teachers how each student is progressing
Impact documents student achievement with graded assignments. In a time of evolving assessment standards and accountability requirements, Impact offers solutions, while automating administrative tasks and allowing more time for teaching the art of making music.
Use Impact with all of your students
While most students prefer the convenience of practicing at home, assignments can also be completed in a practice room at school with any computer that has SmartMusic installed and activated.
Use any of SmartMusic’s exercises, solo accompaniments, beginning band and string method books, or jazz repertoire for assignment material. Or, use Finale to create your own curriculum materials. Plus, all band, orchestra, and jazz band titles include educator-approved assignments for all parts.
Inspire a lifelong love of music.
With SmartMusic, your students:
- Have fun practicing and learn quickly
With SmartMusic learning software loaded on a personal computer, students connect a microphone and begin playing in an interactive musical environment. Students see the music on-screen and hear how their part sounds with professional accompaniment. It’s engaging and fun!
- Practice longer and more often
SmartMusic makes practicing fun, so students practice longer and more often. The software listens and responds as students play their part with professional accompaniment. Instant feedback and assessment motivate students to keep playing and improving.
- Develop confidence in their musical skills
SmartMusic gives students instant, personalized feedback to help them improve faster. The software’s assessment feature uses red and green notes to show students where they’re playing correctly and where they need to try again. Students return to rehearsal confident: they know their part and how it should sound with the rest of the group.
- Become passionate about making music
SmartMusic students come to class better prepared and engaged with the music. They’ve already practiced with accompaniment and know how their part fits with the piece. Teachers spend less time correcting mistakes and more time teaching the drama and passion of music.
With SmartMusic, students are energized, improving, and learning more. Thanks to you, they gain an appreciation for music to last a lifetime. Get started today with SmartMusic learning software for band, orchestra, and choir.
Give your students an exceptional band, orchestra, or choir experience
Teachers use SmartMusic assignments to guide how, and what, students practice – even at home.
Develop student skills faster
SmartMusic makes it easy to give music students graded homework assignments, like in other classes. The huge curriculum library includes band, orchestra, and choir titles, complete with educator-approved assignments for all parts. With SmartMusic assignments, you can guide how each student practices.
Spend more time teaching musical expression
With SmartMusic assignments, students return to class better prepared and engaged with the music you’re teaching. Class time is more productive because all students are playing correct notes and rhythms, freeing you to spend more time teaching musical expression.
Guide, document, and grade the progress of each student
SmartMusic includes SmartMusic ImpactTM – the free, web-based service that makes it easy for teachers to manage, grade, and document assignments for all their students. SmartMusic Impact’s time-saving features automate administrative tasks, allowing more time for teaching the drama and emotion of music.
Easily comply with assessment and accountability requirements
In a time of evolving assessment standards and accountability requirements, SmartMusic offers a proactive solution. With graded assignments and documented proof of student achievement, SmartMusic helps you justify and promote your program.
Key Features
- SmartMusic Impact
- Repertoire Library
- Intelligent Accompaniment
- Adjust Tempo
- Recording
- Assessment
- Exercises
- Tuner
- Metronome
- Transpose
- Practice Loops
- Fingering Charts
- Hear Solo Line/Accompaniment
- Play by Ear
- Improv Patterns
- Jazz Exercises
SmartMusic Impact
Educator subscriptions to SmartMusic include SmartMusic Impact – a web-based course management tool that automates administrative tasks to save you time. SmartMusic Impact is an effective and efficient way for teachers to guide and document the individual development for every student
Teachers save a tremendous amount of time because:
- SmartMusic Impact tracks all of your assignments.
- Educator-authored assignments of large ensemble literature are included.
- Grades are automatically scored and entered into your SmartMusic Impact Gradebook.
- You can require audio recordings of student assignments and listen to them with one click.
- At a glance, you can see how each student is progressing.
In addition, teachers can:
- Assign practice reports. SmartMusic tracks the time students spend practicing.
- Create and share assignments with other teachers. On-line assignment libraries make it easy to share ideas with colleagues in your district or around the world.
- Document proof of student achievement, making it easier to comply with stricter assessment standards and expectations.
All of your students can participate because they can:
- Complete assignments on any computer with a SmartMusic subscription - at home or at school.
- Access and submit assignments without the need of an Internet browser.
Note: SmartMusic 10.0 or higher is required for both teacher and students using SmartMusic Impact.
Repertoire Library
SmartMusic’s curriculum library includes:
- Full band, orchestra, and choir titles, complete with educator-approved assignments for all parts.
- Solo accompaniments, perfect for recitals and contest.
- 50,000 skill-building exercises for musicians at all levels.
- Beginning band and string method books.
- Jazz repertoire and innovative tools for learning improvisation.
Intelligent Accompaniment® listens and follows spontaneous tempo changes
Intelligent Accompaniment listens as students practice and follows their spontaneous tempo changes. Slow down and it slows down; speed up and it speeds up; set it to hold a note and it waits.
Adjust to any tempo and practice with accompaniment
Faulty technique develops when students practice at tempos that are too fast. SmartMusic allows for control over the tempo while enjoying the many benefits of accompaniment. Students can practice music slowly until they can get every note right. Then, as they gain confidence, they can gradually build up speed.
Record practice sessions for immediate feedback
SmartMusic’s built-in recording capability allows students to record their performances at home. This way, they can immediately review and analyze their playing. Recordings can also be e-mailed to teachers for additional feedback, shared with family and friends, archived to track progress, or sent to college auditions and with scholarship applications.
SmartMusic’s assessment feature gives students immediate feedback
As a student plays an exercise or song, the SmartMusic assessment feature displays the notes the student played. Correctly played notes appear in green; red notes indicate an incorrect pitch or rhythm. This immediate feedback gives students the opportunity to improve before the next lesson.
SmartMusic even grades the assessment based upon the percentage of correct (green) notes and rhythms. With SmartMusic at home, students can complete assignments on their own and e-mail the grade, assessment screenshot, and a recording to their teacher with the click of a button.
Exercises motivate and challenge students
Scales and arpeggios are rarely a student’s favorite practice material, but SmartMusic makes learning these fundamental skills challenging and fun. More than 50,000 scale, interval, arpeggio, twister, and rhythm exercises are included in SmartMusic. Each can be customized to any key and articulation, has multiple accompaniment styles to choose from, and is displayed on-screen with assessment and grading.
Chromatic tuner improves intonation
SmartMusic’s chromatic tuner visually shows how to adjust the pitch, and it can play a simultaneous reference note while the student is tuning. This allows the student to tune aurally as well as visually.
A sophisticated metronome helps students keep perfect time
A built-in metronome click can be used with any accompaniment. Or use a full-featured metronome that functions independently. Set it for any simple, complex, or compound time signature. The SmartMusic metronome can also accent downbeats and play subdivisions.
Transpose to any key
SmartMusic lets you transpose any piece into any key and:
- Match music to vocal range
- Play vocal music on any instrument
- Practice jazz tunes in any key
Practice loops help students concentrate on difficult passages
SmartMusic's unique practice loop lets students isolate and repeat difficult measures. Start slowly and build speed, focusing on the areas that need the most work.
Beginning students can learn fingerings instantly
If a student is unsure of the fingering for any note, they need only to click on it. A fingering chart -- specific to that note AND the student’s instrument -- appears on the screen.
Hear solo line and accompaniment independently
Listen to just the solo line, just the accompaniment, or hear them both together. SmartMusic allows the flexibility to meet each student's needs.
Play by Ear helps students develop their ears with graded call-and-response exercises
1. Students listen to SmartMusic play a phrase
2. They play the phrase back as accurately as possible
3. SmartMusic assesses what was played, showing mistakes, and allowing for rapid improvement
4. Students can e-mail a recording and assessment grade to their instructor
Improvisation patterns help students master the mechanics of any progression
Students can select an Aebersold, Alfred, or Wynton Marsalis tune and practice it with a variety of Jerry Coker-like patterns, which appear on-screen. These jazz patterns help them get used to hearing and feeling the chords, so that they better understand the progression. Select from 13 patterns: Tonics, 123, 321, 1235, 5321, 1357, 7531, and more.
Jazz exercises help students develop jazz vocabulary
Unlike play-along CDs, SmartMusic is a one-of-a-kind practice system that transforms the teaching and learning of music by giving students the opportunity to practice any instrument in any tempo and any key, fostering rapid progress. Students can practice at slower tempos to learn a tune; receive instant feedback on what they did wrong; isolate tough sections for concentrated practice; and work on the blues scale in all 12 keys. SmartMusic provides the essential tools that help all students develop improvisation skills.
SmartMusic includes over 100 Jazz Exercises covering the blues scale and common progressions. Select from quarter notes, triplets, straight eighths, and swing eighths. Students can:
- Select any instrument
- Play in any key or loop through all 12 keys
- Practice at any tempo – start slowly and work up to speed
- Click on any note to see its fingering chart
- Isolate tough chord changes with practice loops, be assessed and get a grade – red notes show what was played incorrectly and green notes show what was played correctly
- Record performance for instant feedback
- E-mail recordings and/or assessment grades as an assignment
- Make CDs of their recordings for family, friends, or to track improvement
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Mac
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Pentium III®-class 800 MHz Pentium processor or higher*
512 MB RAM
Windows® 2000/XP
700 MB free disk space
CD-ROM drive
DirectX® 9 compatible soundcard with full duplex support**
Monitor resolution of 1024x768 (800x600 minimum)
Microphone
Headphones or speakers
One available USB for the optional foot pedal
Internet access is required to activate your subscription, to receive and submit assignments via SmartMusic Impact, and to download large ensemble and other new titles. An ongoing Internet connection is not required when practicing with SmartMusic.
Note: SmartMusic does not yet support the Windows Vista operating system.
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867MHz G4 processor or higher*. PPC or Mac-Intel
512 MB RAM
Mac OS 10.3.9 or higher
700 MB free disk space
CD-ROM drive
Monitor resolution of 1024x768 (800x600 minimum)
Microphone and microphone adaptor***
Headphones or speakers
One available USB port for the optional foot pedal
Internet access is required to activate your subscription, to receive and submit assignments via SmartMusic Impact, and to download large ensemble and other new titles. An ongoing Internet connection is not required when practicing with SmartMusic.
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