SoundCheck™, powered by MatchMySound™, is now included in Essential Elements Interactive
LITCHFIELD, Conn., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- MatchMySound, the music practice and feedback technology powering music education platforms that serve musicians worldwide, today announced that Hal Leonard's SoundCheck is included in Essential Elements Interactive. This makes Essential Elements the only band and string method with included performance assessment technology.
"All of us at MatchMySound are thrilled that our assessment and guided practice technology used to power SoundCheck will be part of the Essential Element Interactive experience," said MatchMySound CEO David Smolover. "We have long admired Essential Elements as the leading and most innovative instrumental method on the market."
MatchMySound enables SoundCheck to provide ratings and feedback on pitch, rhythm, and intonation, and supports both audio and video recording. Students and teachers will be able to access SoundCheck in their Essential Elements Interactive account and easily create assessment assignments, apply their own self-evaluation rubrics, and turn them into the EEi grade book.
"SoundCheck assessment has proven to be a valuable tool for learning to play music," said John Mlynczak, Vice President, Music Education & Technology, Hal Leonard. "Integrating this technology into Essential Elements Interactive allows us to offer the most comprehensive collection of included resources for learning to play an instrument."
Hal Leonard's SoundCheck is now available in Essential Elements Interactive at no additional charge to students using Essential Elements method books. For more information on SoundCheck and Essential Elements, contact [email protected]. For more information on MatchMySound, contact [email protected].
ABOUT MATCHMYSOUND, A DIVISION OF ACCELERANDO, LLC
Accelerando is a music education company that specializes in music assessment technology. Its flagship practice and feedback technology, MatchMySound, powers its own polyphonic and monophonic guided practice apps, in addition to Noteflight's SoundCheck, MusicFirst's Practice First, Habits of a Successful Musician series, and Piano Adventures' Sightreading Coach. In December 2020, MatchMySound and Taylor Robinson Music formed RealTime Audio, a new company featuring technology that enables musicians to play or sing together online in real-time using an ultra-low latency video and audio platform.
A respected technology innovator, Accelerando has license agreements with major publishers, including Hal Leonard, GIA Publications, Music Sales, and Piano Adventures. Accelerando also works with School of Rock, one of the world's largest music lesson providers. The company's mission is to make learning music fun, exciting, and affordable, and proudly serves its solutions to publishers, schools, private teachers, student musicians, and hobbyists worldwide.
ABOUT HAL LEONARD
Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard is the world's largest music print publisher and digital content provider, producing educational publications, songbooks, sheet music, reference books, DVDs, magazines, eBooks, digital sheet music, apps and more. The company is also a major distributor of music technology products, selling and marketing the most popular software, hard goods and accessories available today, to musicians and recording enthusiasts around the world. In its more than one million available publications and products, Hal Leonard represents many of the world's best known and most respected publishers, artists, songwriters, arrangers and manufacturers. The company is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI and also has domestic offices in Winona, MN; San Francisco; Austin; and Boston, and offices abroad in Australia, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit http://www.halleonard.com.
ABOUT ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
Essential Elements is the best-selling method for middle school and high school band and orchestras. First published in 1991, the band series was written by renowned educators Tim Lautzenheiser, John Higgins, Charles Menghini, Paul Lavender, Tom C. Rhodes, and Don Bierschenk. The strings series was written by Michael Allen, Robert Gillespie, and Pamela Tellejohn Hayes. The series features Essential Elements Interactive which provides a valuable online resource center for teachers, students, and parents.
Media Contact
Jen Biasi, MatchMySound, +1 844-594-7408, [email protected]
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