Music Ace Deluxe by 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.

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.

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

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Music Ace Deluxe ships on a hybrid CD-ROM that runs on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

WINDOWS

Windows 98/2000/Me/NT4/XP/Vista
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.

MACINTOSH

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.

LESSONS
Thirty-six engaging, self-paced lessons that accelerate development of fundamental music skills and music theory. Lessons cover:

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

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

PRICING*
Music Ace Deluxe has a suggested retail price of $79.95

PUBLISHER
Harmonic Vision (800) 474-0903.

* Pricing subject to change.