Click MusicalKEYS will change your computer into a virtual music lab. With 128 musical instruments, you can play the best music of your choice. You can also save your favorites in the MIDI file format for free using the MIDI Converter utility.

Click MusicalKEYS can be used as an accompaniment just like electronic keyboards and it is also ideal for people who want to learn how to play tunes in musical instruments. You can also download tunes from your friends and send your favorites to them, so with Click MusicalKEYS, it is very easy and fun to use the computer as a musical instrument.

You don't need any experience about music staves and sheets. Click MusicalKEYS will do all the work.

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Reading or writing music is one of the trickiest parts of being a professional musician but software like Melody Assistant can make your life considerably easier.

This program features a wide range of musical symbols that will enable you to create and tablatures including even complex scores such as Gregorian notation. You can input music through the mouse, computer keyboard or even an external MIDI keyboard. The program comes bundled with its own embedded software synthesizer (SoftSynth), which provides high quality output on basic sound cards, even without any external MIDI device, and includes hundreds of different instruments. In addition, you'll find a complete score editor, tablature calculation for miscellaneous string instruments, a chord diagram library for various instruments plus the possibility to allow visitors to view, transpose, play or print your scores. If you're completely new to composing music too, there's a host of very handy video tutorials on the developer website to help you get the most out of it.

Easy to use and with input possibilities from MIDI devices, Melody Assistant will help you write tablature and musical scores in no time.

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Finding suitable software to help you out with learning a musical instrument can sometimes prove to be more difficult than just sitting down and teaching yourself. An inproportionate number of programs scrape the surface and don’t provide the flexibility, depth or support that you need to be able to go beyond being a novice. Thankfully, in Guitar Pro you will find a complete tool that will take you from tuning the guitar, through learning the scales and as far as composing your own sheet music.

The main interface is a daunting array of buttons on both the top and bottom of the window. On further inspection it becomes clear that the majority are involved with composing and each one refers to a very specific element. With this in mind, there are actually very few that you need to be familiar with to get going and as your guitar skills progress, so too will your familiarity with the software.

Some of the gizmos included in the software can actually come in useful and let you do everything from one place. The digital guitar tuner and the metronome are extremely handy to have and save you the bother of going out to buy them or of searching through your cluttered room for either. Once prepared, you can get started on the individual note library that lets you visualize the fingering as well as listen to how they should sound. Moving on, you can practice the large variety of scales that each come with a plethora of variations.

Getting the basics down is all well and good, but when it comes to composing or playing sheet music, Guitar Pro has it licked. Using the virtual keyboard or guitar, although tedious, will yield results when you want to compose something of your own, but for optimum results you can hook up your own MIDI device (such as a keyboard) and get cracking on tracks that are as simple or complex as you want. The extra dimension of a separate MIDI device lets you get ideas down much quicker while also giving you the ability to experiment with variations of a piece.

It’s difficult to point out faults with Guitar Pro, but having mentioned the cluttered interface, it could do with a facelift in the form of tabs or something similar that would better categorize and clean up the buttons scattered around the screen. The help file covers each topic without going into excruciating detail and if you’re after some extra resources, you’ll find tablatures, lessons and exercises on the Guitar Pro web site.

A good one-stop solution for beginners and experts alike, Guitar Pro succeeds in delivering the variety and depth required to taking the next step to rock-stardom!

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Harmony Assistant is a all-in-one software product with digital audio capabilities. Its harmonizing capabilities enable the composer to build quickly and efficiently tunes that include accompaniment, multiple instruments and drum patterns. Its full page edit and engraver modes will ease editing and page setup of your scores.

A wide range of music symbols will enable to edit scores of great quality: notation capabilities are immense. Using the page mode, you will edit the score just as it will be printed on paper. The Engraver mode will make look it nice. Score input can be performed through the mouse, computer keyboard or an external MIDI keyboard.

Harmony Assistant comes with its own embedded software synthesizer (SoftSynth), which provides high quality output on basic sound cards, even without any external MIDI device, and includes hundreds of different instruments. Harmony Assistant can load and save in many formats (MIDI, WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG, TAB, ABC...).

With MyrScript, the embedded programming language, you can add your own features to the program

More features:

• Complete score editor, with unlimited number of staves
• Page mode editing
• Automatic harmonizer
• Accompaniments & drum patterns in a few clicks
• Tablature calculation for miscellaneous string instrument
• Tablature calculation for Harmonica, diatonic accordion, wind instruments...
• Completely scriptable application. Many open-source scripts are available.
• Embedded softsynth : does not need any hardware other than a sound card.
• Midi, Kar, MOD, S3M... import
• Digital tracks (possible to import WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG...)
• Wav-to-note pitch tracker, noise reduction, formant-compliant pitch change, ...
• Gregorian notation
• Chord diagram library for various instruments
• Enables to build custom instruments from digital recordings
• Lute tablatures
• Street organ card printing
• Karaoke and multi-voices lyrics are actually sung.
• Enable visitors of your Web site to view, transpose, play or print your scores

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With more power and speed than ever before, Finale offers endless possibilities for composing, arranging, hearing and printing your music. The original, groundbreaking notation software introduces new features that nurture and fuel creativity. Finale 2007 includes revolutionary tools for teaching students how to create, evaluate and shape ideas into songs, arrangements and compositions.

The largest publishers, including Hal Leonard engrave with Finale. Prestigious schools like Juilliard and Berklee College of Music teach with Finale. World-class arts organizations such as the Metropolitan Opera and Jazz at Lincoln Center rely on Finale.

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This song-based learning software complements guitar tablature by providing additional, detailed instructions that guitar tab alone is unable to provide. Guitar Guru teaches guitarists of all skill levels how to play songs from a variety of genres.

Tools and features:

• Virtual fret board displays proper fingerings in real-time
• Detailed instructions for all guitar parts in a song
• Adjustable playback/learning tempo
• MIDI or CD-Synched Audio
• Customizable display with additional guitar skins
• Step-Through Playback Function
• Delayed start option: Give yourself time to grab your guitar
• Bass guitar support
• Select MIDI playback instrument to match your preferred sound
• Choose colored dots, numbers or dots and numbers to represent fingerings
• Adjust tempo up to 300% without changing pitch (MIDI only)
• Mute Button: The volume reset has been changed to an on/off toggle

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Guitar & Drum Trainer is all about helping you to be the best musician that you can be. (Soldiers included.) And if you are serious about your music, and you think there is room to improve your playing, then Guitar and Drum Trainer is for you. And if you're already blazing down the fretboard at lightspeed, then Guitar & Drum Trainer is your perfect transcription tool to help you get things down on paper.

Guitar & Drum Trainer is the ultimate musician's practice tool. We've all heard the gurus say, "gradually build speed" and we know that's true. Nobody starts off blazing like Yngwie or Vai. Speed and accuracy take practice. Guitar and Drum Trainer can help you improve the quality of your practice time and get far better results.

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ChordBook v3.4 provides chord lookup and diagraming for guitar in standard or alternate tuning. ChordBook's purpose is simple--it provides a way for you to create your own, customized chord listings....in the order and with the voicing YOU choose.

Chordbook is designed to work along side a graphical editor of your choosing (Excel, OpenOffice, Paint, etc.). This enables you to not only create documents of chord diagrams but also to write in lesson notes, song lyrics, and combine them with other graphics (depending on the capabilities of your editor). Over the years, this has been our user's most asked-for feature.

The Neck Window -- or the Fretboard is where the real power of ChordBook lies. This window allows the browsing of chord fingerings over the neck and has a Name-that-Chord function which recognizes more than 60 different chord types in any key, in standard and non-standard tunings. These user-created chord voicings may then be diagramed in the Diagram Window.

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Play-along method to master the 100 most important guitar chords positions. You will also learn to read chord charts effortlessly. In a few weeks you will master a minimum of 100 carefully selected chord positions and become completely fluent with all important types of chords and variations.

If you are not satisfied with your rhythmic skills, the 100 Chords Method play-along exercises will tighten up your time and train your brain cells and nerve fibers to produce a great groove every single time you strum a chord!

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Notation Player allows you to download and display music (MIDI) files as sheet music that you can view on the screen while the notes play, and also in print.

The player allows you to Display MIDI, Karaoke, and .not (note) files in sheet music form as well as allow you to add key signatures and clef symbols.

Learn how to read and write music the easy way!

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This program uses its artificial intelligence to guess chords for you. All you have to do is to load a media file (wav or mp3) and click a button. Chord Pickout will transcribe the music and write down the recognized chords. The process is fully automated. While most of its competitors use simple patterns to recognize chords, Chord Pickout applies complex math and shows outstanding results even in the toughest cases.

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Noteable is a music flashcards computer program designed to help music students of all levels memorize the musical notes. Noteable takes the popular musical flashcards learning technique and expands upon it in digital format.

This system keeps independent statistics, preferences, and deck settings for multiple users. You can learn your strengths and weaknesses and use a reaction time stoplight to improve reaction times. Plus, the app's SmartTester feature helps you to pick up missed notes more often.

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MagicScore lets you precisely tune up the notes' sounds and their timing features, process the effects and the dynamics. In this program, you may use both general and extended sets of musical symbols and as well create your own symbols, terms and chords for complex compositions with a peculiar or a non-standard grammatical solution.

Special tools such as: virtual piano, virtual fingerboard for six and seven-string guitars, notes performance editor, real-time notes play-back editor and the navigator let you easily and efficiently record and work with both single pieces and large musical compositions.

The basic features of the Maestro version are as follows:

• Automatic spell-checking of entered information
• Extensive editing capabilities (copy, paste, delete, transpose both single notes and selected blocks)
• Note entry using the virtual piano
• Score entry using the Chord Builder
• Capability to bind comments, links, and other appearance elements to all score elements
• Adjustment of volume, balance, and effects for each track (of an instrument's score)
• Reading from MIDI files and writing to MIDI files
• Play-back of the entered notes both by a single instrument and by the entire orchestra
• Printing scores, including previewing the scores
• Drag & Drop support
• Capability to cancel the running operation
• Score recording from a MIDI device

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The program has been written in C, C++, and is using the timer of your system through an advanced algoritm. As a result this metronome is one of the most accurate available.

This program is freeware and can be distributed as it is; However two features (irregular meters and sound selection) are only available with a registration code.

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Wouldn't you like to look at a music score and be able to hear that music in your mind? Well trained musicians can do it. Sight-Singing is the key.

This is a unique program which may help you develop this ability. It has voice pitch recognition capability. It will generate random melodic drills on selected scales, or play custom melodic lines. Take a look at the notes and try to hear them in your mind. But since the computer cannot read your mind you will have to sing or hum each note. The computer will listen and help you correct the intonation.

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FastChords is designed to help you improve your piano playing skills with ease. It includes a calculator to show how each chord is played on the keyboard. You can use the staff to enter the melody notes, so there is no need to read music.

Listen to the song and let FastChords find the optimal chord configuration to simplify playing one chord after another. Print the result, put it next to the piano or keyboard, and you are ready to learn a new song!

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Note Attack helps you to learn to read music by blasting notes into submission as part of an addictive game. You can use your computer keyboard or your MIDI compatible piano or keyboard to control the game.

Features include:

• Use your computer or MIDI compatible keyboard
• Adjust the speed
• Adjust the note range
• Optionally play note each time
• High Score List
• Violent/Peaceful option

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Fret Fun is an interactive game that helps you learn the note names for the guitar and get you on your way to reading music. It's very simple and fun to play. Each game presents a random selection of 20 notes, displayed one at a time, and you will be asked to identify where it lives on the guitar by selecting its name, string number and fret number. If you entered the right answer, you can advance to the next selection by clicking 'Next'.

If you're answer was incorrect, you have the option of entering another answer ('Try Again') or skipping to the next note ('Next'). You get points for correct answers (five points for first try answers or 2.5 points for second try answers) and at the end of the game your score is expressed as a percentage. Any notes you missed are then displayed for review.

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Explore the scales, modes and chords in any key with this great looking guitar tool. Easily find the right chord voicings, filtering them by difficulty or inversion, and list all the modes you can play over.

The fingerboard can be configured (Left handed players, background texture and other features). The theme of the application and MIDI settings can also be customized.

With this program, guitarists of any level can now attach meaning to music! The scales are displayed on both the fingerboard and the staff.

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Absolute Pitch is an ear-training application for Windows that will help you acquire absolute or perfect pitch. This is the musical ability to name any note played, without the aid of a reference note. Perfect pitch therefore differs from relative pitch, with which a musician can identify notes by using knowledge of the intervals between them.

Musicians with extremely good relative pitch can give results indistinguishable from those having absolute pitch, but they are always at a disadvantage in having to hear a reference tone, such as Middle A, first. You may have noticed this in purely vocal concerts, where the musicians hold tuning forks to their ears before starting a new movement.

Having absolute pitch makes it easier for a composer or performer, especially of atonal music, to retain and hear complex melodies and harmonies in his or her head (Schoenberg mentions his ability in a letter; Boulez is well known for it). For any singer, it obviates the use of a reference pitch, and ensures that performing without instrumental accompaniment, such as in a barbershop quartet, doesn't risk a gradual sliding out of tune during a piece.

The Absolute Pitch program works by presenting notes in an atonal, rather than tonal, context to reduce the possibility of using relative pitch. You learn a particular note by listening to a random sequence that includes the note. Whenever the note is played, your aural recognition is reinforced by visual stimuli that serve to connect the sound of the note with its name and position on the piano keyboard. When you are confident that you know the note well enough, you can proceed to take a test.

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