"Piano is Fun" by Anthony Fernando is a great beginner package for a very reasonable price that will teach you how to read sheet music. The knowledge and use available here would cost many times the purchase price ($ 24.95) in personal experience. Included in the price of a lifetime and upgrades are a free 30-day money-back guarantee.
Installation
Purchase and installation were both a snap. The whole process takes about 5 minutes and is very easy. Therefore, what is in the product? A series of piano lessons and practice games that teach you how to read sheet music and most importantly, make it fun! And that is quite an achievement. Most students finds it an enormous, terrible task, but it really does not have to be, as evidenced by this product. When you start the program, you might think that the product is just for kids. Well, that's good for children, but also is fun for anyone who wants to learn to read sheet music for piano.
Getting Started
Piano is Fun has a series of 20 lessons that is starting out very simple and progress across the treble and bass clefs. The graphics are big and bright and easy to read. There are good sound and visual effects - enough to keep the interest, but not so much that it distracts from the point, of learning the notes. The way to start with the product is to take the tour, which explains the willingness of the lessons and the "games" that are used as examination paper for each of the 20 lessons. As you progresses through each piano lesson, there are prizes displayed on your monitor - a great little thing to keep you playing.
Menu and Options
The main menu is completely self-explanatory, and includes a button "Start Here", which leads to "tour", "education", leading to the twentieth lessons, "Options" button (explained below) and some buttons for the more advanced testing the so-called Bronze, Silver, Gold and challenges. The Options button lets you take control of what happens when a correct answer is given (there are different options), and contains an option for teachers that allow for the addition or deletion of a student's name. It is also possible to take "master" to build "custom" lessons that operates like other classes. Therefore, if you want to concentrate on the recognition of certain notes, you can easily create exercises that contain only the notes. There is also an option that lets you turn on or off sound effects.
Extra difficult exercises
The Bronze, Silver and Gold Challenge exercises are more note recognition, but tests on the notes that pass through the screen at a faster pace, obviously that require a faster response by you. If you can master these, there isn't much doubt that you know your notes!
Conclusion
If you want to learn how to read sheet music, or perhaps your child is showing an interest in piano, these piano lessons are a great buy, no matter if you are a beginner, or skilled to a certain level. The lessons truly are making it fun to play the piano, without losing interest fast like people normally does with normal piano lessons in books etc.
