On 19 Sep 2008 at 13:07, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> Not at all. The program is very valuable with the following thing turned
> off.
But not for a real-sounding accompaniment that a busker might use in
the subway, or a soloist might use playing at a wedding reception, or
any number of contexts wh
I believe even Sir. James Galway uses the program.he's mentioned it
a few times on his Galway flute list.
You can tell the program to what degree to follow..but I've never
found the feature particularly useful.
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and, of course, there are phrases where the soloi
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
On 19 Sep 2008 at 15:47, dhbailey wrote:
> David W. Fenton wrote:
> [snip]> Obviously, for teaching purposes with kids, you'd
> turn off this
> > feature, but for "grown-ups," it would be pretty useless without it,
> > no?
>
> As an accompaniment for adults performing, I quite agree
> with you
David W. Fenton wrote:
[snip]> Obviously, for teaching purposes with kids, you'd
turn off this
feature, but for "grown-ups," it would be pretty useless without it,
no?
As an accompaniment for adults performing, I quite agree
with you. But SmartMusic is marketed to schools for
students to
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 th
and, of course, there are phrases where the soloist may want to pull the
speed around within a strict tempo in the accompaniment and if the
accompaniment
follows, the result is not good. As I said, I've never used it so I don't
know what it's capabilities/limitations are. I can only guess
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I'm not sure it's supposed to follow so that a student can fail to keep a
steady tempo, more that it can follow rubato and certain expressive changes of
tempo (but then again, I've never used it so I don't know what its
capabilities are)
I realize it's not suppos
Exactly. I turn off that "feature". The other thing I hate is the green
follow line that never seems to want to be turned off (you turn it off in
the preferences, but it comes back on when you load the program again).
StarPlay has a great idea about having a conductor on the screen. But the
library
I'm not sure it's supposed to follow so that a student can fail to keep a
steady tempo, more that it can follow rubato and certain expressive changes of
tempo (but then again, I've never used it so I don't know what its
capabilities are)
Cheers,
Lawrence
lawrenceyates.co.uk
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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
re
Hi Chuck,
You must have become inadvertently unsubscribed. Either that or all
list mail is getting caught in your ISP's spam trap.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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Brooklyn, NY
On Sep 19, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Haven't seen a thing in days. Wondering of there's
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:15 AM, David W. Fenton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> If this is true, I'm not sure why this is seen as a problem, given
> that Finale itself has never had backward compatibility of file
> format. What exactly do you mean by "will only work with 2009?"
I think he has it r
On 18 Sep 2008 at 21:18, Howey, Henry wrote:
> If you use SMARTMUSIC (and I really do love it) and FINALE (love-hate
> relationship), you'll be pleased to know that the latest version of
> SMARTMUSIC 11 will only work with 2009.
If this is true, I'm not sure why this is seen as a problem, given
Haven't seen a thing in days. Wondering of there's something wrong
with my account.
Chuck
Chuck Israels
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Bellingham, WA 98225-5836
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fax (360) 676-6055
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On Sep 19, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Andrew Levin wrote:
Bug or feature?
(Mac OS 10.5.4, Finale 2009, Mac Pro)
I've already entered an expression to all parts in a score. Now I
want to
drag enclose the same notes and add an mf dynamic, using a metatool.
However, it won't be placed. But if I click
Bug or feature?
(Mac OS 10.5.4, Finale 2009, Mac Pro)
I've already entered an expression to all parts in a score. Now I want to
drag enclose the same notes and add an mf dynamic, using a metatool.
However, it won't be placed. But if I click on each individual note with the
metatool it *will* go i
Actually there is an application called
StarPlay. http://www.starplaymusic.com/index.php . It is a similar
practice/assessment aid but lacks Smartmusic's ability to adjust tempo
to the the student. It doesn't have the extensive content that
SmartMusic does, but it has a video component that can
Eric Dannewitz wrote:
But Sibelius does not work with Smartmusic. And they do not offer
anything like it...as far as I know.
Back on topic...makemusic did increase the price of a Smartmusic
subscription, but as the library of songs keeps going, it is totally
worth it (even though it has a
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