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Our Price:$69.99 We save you: $9.96
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.  
 
Features Include:  
 
- 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 (optional)  
- Tracks progress of 10 users  
 
Lessons:  
Thirty-six engaging, self-paced lessons that accelerate development of fundamental music skills and music theory (see list below.)  
 
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 Doodlepad:  
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  
 
Lessons:  
1. Introduction to the Staff  
2. Introduction to the Piano Keyboard  
3. Beat and Tempo  
4. Playing with Pitch  
5. The ABCs of the Piano Keyboard  
6. Hearing Rhythms  
7. More Piano ABC's  
8. The ABCs of the Staff  
9. Basic Rhythm Notation  
10. The ABCs of the Treble Staff  
11. More Treble Staff ABC's  
12. The Quarter Rest  
13. Below the Treble Staff  
14. Melody  
15. Above the Treble Staff  
16. The Measure  
17. The ABC's of the Bass Staff  
18. Above the Bass Staff  
19. Notes Longer Than a Beat  
20. Below the Bass Staff  
21. Dotted Quarter Notes  
22. Half Steps and Whole Steps  
23. Rests  
24. Sharps and Flats  
25. Sharps and Flats on the Staff  
26. Syncopation  
27. The Key Signature  
28. Introduction to Major Scales  
29. Sixteenth Notes  
30. Sharp Key Signatures  
31. Three Sounds per Beat  
32. The Time Signature  
33. Flat Key Signatures  
34. The 6/8 Time Signature  
35. Minor Scales  
36. Introduction to Harmony

Academic pricing:
For educational version, please see Music Ace Maestro! - $0.00

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Kelly's Music & Computers
Phone: 1-888-562-8822
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