Future of Music Instrument Practice has Come of Age.

Track download is the new model for music swapping on the Web (apple iTunes, Virgin ). For centuries music students have struggled to play difficult passages standing alone in practice rooms. A new website, www.myPiano.biz , is helping students with 2 age old difficulties: No accompanist - difficult passages are recorded a three speeds ("play slowly" is the eternal refrain from music teachers); Sightreading, little help is available for this difficult and rewarding skill. myPiano.biz aims to create full accompaniment, graded exercises for improving musicians. All downloadable for the latest technology.

Manchester UK (PRWEB) December 1, 2003 --A music web site wanted to help improving musicians. Todays students understand technology. myPiano.biz enables students with mp3 players, Web connected PCs, the iPod from Apple and minidisk players, to use them in their studies. These personal gadgets can be taken into the practice studio and help get the student ready for that performance of a life time or that audition the secures their future.

myPiano Ltd, coupled low cost soundfont technology with state of the art music publishing software (Sibelius), to produce a new website that enables music students solve their practising problems in a new way.

John Goodstadt, Managing Director of myPiano said "Being a professional musician and an IT specialist, I recognised the potential that new technology has for solving musicians age old Problems of practice. I am very excited to be able to launch this new site at a time when technology is increasingly accessible and reasonably priced."

He added, "We can save students money by acknowledging the quality of todays home printers. They can produce excellent copies of sheet music. We let users print their own solo parts."
                            
The new rehersal model is: Print off your music, Download your track, Take them into the practice room, Play difficult passages at 3 slower tempos until secure, play the whole piece at full speed. Now the student is ready for a real rehersal.

For sightreading the new model is: Select a suitable difficulty level, print off the sheetmusic, download the accompaniment - Maybe it will be 40 bars from Beethoven 5th symphony, 30 Bars from a Mozart Trio or 20 difficult violin bars from Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben. New computer technology makes string and wind sounds more realistic than ever before. Who would record the LSO for only 20 bars!
                        
What help do musicians need for auditions? The usual method is to play through 'Orchestral Excerpts' books that splice together the difficult excerpts from famous pieces orchestras play every day. myPiano has the long term aim of reproducing all these on acompaniment tracks. Sitting in the middle of an orchestra, playing a difficult passage, is easier than solo.

About myPiano.biz
myPiano.biz records mp3s from a classical catalogue of works. It understands the problems of music students and wants to help them achieve their potential. It is aimed at the student in the practice room addressing problems not covered with existing products.
                    
myPiano.biz is a private company located in Manchester, England. For more information, please visit http://www.myPiano.biz or email mailto:admin@mypiano.biz