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Children's Music Journey will guide you through the wonderful world of music
making. This highly acclaimed music software will enable you and your child
learn to play the piano, digital piano, piano keyboard, and organ; improve your
sight reading; develop your musical ear; and compose.
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Children learn to read, play the piano keyboard, and
compose
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One full year of animated, narrated interactive
lessons
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Library of over 100 songs to listen to and learn to
play
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Ten interactive music games develop skills and make
learning fun
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Composer that helps children create their own music
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Official software of the Keys to Achievement
Foundation
SKU:
ADVCMJ2
Children's Music Journey by Adventus
Included
libraries contain a huge selection of piano music. You'll
benefit from interactive assistance that goes far beyond any
piano learning keyboard or other music software. Produces even
more remarkable progress when combined with piano lessons.
Learn all about music from the greatest composers that ever
lived. This fully animated interactive program helps children
develop musical talent by taking part in entertaining lessons,
activities and games. Children's Music Journey will have your
child on the edge of their seat learning right away, and they'll
end up reading and playing music.
Children's Music Journey
Frequently Asked
Questions
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Children's Music Journey seems like
fun. Is it a game? The single greatest impact of Children's Music Journey
is what is gained from the interactive lessons, and the
interactive practice rooms. Children's Music Journey
satisfies the majority of instructional objectives for the
"making music" portion of elementary school music
curriculums. The games, library, and improvisation room are
included to increase the 'engaged' time spent in key
learning areas.
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Who should use Children's Music
Journey? Children's Music Journey is for every beginner, whether
they're taking lessons or not. The development of the
lessons in Children's Music Journey is targeted for young
users, ages 4-8. Everything is animated and narrated, so
older users may find the pace somewhat easy. All ages seem
to find it very attractive software, and an enjoyable way to
learn the fundamentals of music.
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Where is Children's Music Journey
Being Used? Children's Music Journey is currently being used in homes
across North America and the United Kingdom. Children's
Music Journey is also being widely adopted for use in
elementary schools computer labs across North America.
UCLA's Department of Education is following three public
elementary school Children's Music Journey programs in
southern California in an outcomes based study. This study
is focusing on the many benefits of music.
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What do you need to Run Children's
Music Journey? You need a Windows or Macintosh OSX computer with 128 Meg
RAM, 250 megabytes of hard drive space, a CD-ROM drive,
300MHz CPU or greater, and a sound card that synthesizes
MIDI instruments. The student should ideally have a keyboard
connected to the computer. We recommend a 49-key,
full-sized, velocity sensitive keyboard, as in the M-Audio
keyboard featured on this site.
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Will Children's Music Journey
actually teach my child to play the piano?Yes.
The purpose of Children's Music Journey is to achieve
tangible results in several areas. By the end of the program
your child will be reading music, playing with both hands,
understanding important music concepts, improvising and
composing. At the same time they will develop an interest in
learning more about music.
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Is Children's Music Journey useful if
your child doesn't end up playing the piano seriously?CMJ
is important even if your child goes no further with the
piano instrument, in fact it is important to your child's
overall academic development even if they go no further in
music. As an example, is was demonstrated in a study
undertaken by the Hong Kong University of China, that
children who participated in a challenging music program had
a consistently increasing rate of learning new vocabulary.
If they ceased to study music, they retained the advanced
rate of learning. If they rejoined the music program, the
rate increased further. This implies that the rigorous study
of music, specifically a challenging program of reading
music and playing at the same time, changes the brain
itself, and increases one's capacity to learn from then on.
This effect has been observed to be significant with respect
to rates of learning math and science.
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If you have two children beginning to
learn about music and playing the piano, which product
should you purchase - Children's Music Journey, or Piano
Suite Premier?
Younger children may benefit from the easier pace of
Children's Music Journey, from the animations, simpler
games, and hand holding, created specifically for early
learners. Children's Music Journey is going to seem like
more fun to a young child. However, if you have to select
only one product, the Piano Suite Premier is more
comprehensive, lasts much longer, covers a far greater range
of skill, and would allow both children to proceed with a
very good chance of success. The learning engine in Piano
Suite Premier does work well for younger children, and even
a 5 year old can make good progress with this tool. For
those with young and middle-aged children, having access to
both titles would be ideal.
SYSTEM
REQUIREMENTS:
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PC |
Mac |
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Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
128 Megabytes of RAM
150mb Hard drive space
8X CD-ROM
800 x 600 Resolution with 16 bit Color
Sound card with MIDI support
Standard MIDI keyboard with cable recommended |
Macintosh OS X
128 Megabytes of RAM
150mb Hard drive space
8X CD-ROM
800 x 600 Resolution with 16 bit Color
Sound card with MIDI support
Standard MIDI keyboard with cable recommended |
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