The Mac version of Piano For Dummies Level 2 from eMedia Music builds on the lessons found in the original Piano For Dummies. Irma Irene Justicia, M.A. takes you through 150 lessons that extend keyboard hand positions beyond middle C, introduce new piano chords and piano scales, and teach new piano techniques.
Interactive feedback makes learning easier, so you learn piano faster. Great piano pieces are included to expand your repertoire and keep learning fun.
Over 30 video piano lessons with many split screens to show piano fingerings and hand positioning to help you learn piano technique
Lessons on how to play piano chords, arpeggios, piano scales, F position, transposition, and great piano pieces
Animated keyboard so you can easily see correct notes and fingerings for each of the piano lessons, including both piano chords and piano scales
Interactive feedback with note and finger tracker technology allows the piano software to listen to your melodies and show whether you're playing them correctly, on both electronic keyboards and acoustic pianos
Ear training exercises to develop your sense of pitch
Interactive performance evaluation highlights mistakes made while playing and shows what you should have played, along with an overall score (MIDI keyboard required)
Piano songs and piano lessons as both audio tracks and variable-speed MIDI tracks to let you slow down or speed up the music
The piano software lets you listen to right- and left-hand parts separately
Over fifty well-known piano pieces in a multitude of styles from Elton John's Candle in the Wind to Scott Joplin's The Entertainer
Guitar chords are included, so guitarist friends can play along too
Integrated metronome for tempo studies and an audio recorder, so you can record yourself to track your progress