Not at all. The program is very valuable with the following thing turned
off. You can have it just GO and you have to keep up. You can also have
a click sounding in addition to the accompaniment.
I also have found that the following feature doesn't work all that well.
I can't remember the last time I used it. There is also a sensitivity
setting too, so, you can tell it to what degree to follow the performer.
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 19 Sep 2008 at 15:05, dhbailey wrote:
I've never understood the reasoning behind SmartMusic's
ability to follow the student's tempo -- aren't we supposed
to learn it's bad to slow down in the hard parts and speed
up in the easy parts? How does that tempo-following ability
help the student to learn to keep a steady tempo? I do
realize it can be switched off but I've never understood the
need for it to be included in the first place.
I don't know this for a fact, but I always assumed this was so that a
human being could have an automated accompaniment that follows the
human being's tempo. As a New Yorker, the example that springs to
mind is the busker in the subway station, who might be playing the
tune to, say, Saint-Saëns' The Swan with a computer following along
providing the accompaniment.
Obviously, for teaching purposes with kids, you'd turn off this
feature, but for "grown-ups," it would be pretty useless without it,
no?
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