Teach Me Piano Deluxe

Manufacturer:	Voyetra
Release date:	01 October, 2001

Teach Me Piano Deluxe

Average rating: Stars

Just ok

I know nothing about pianos but was able to go through the first few lessons fine.

However, my daughter who is taking piano classes with a private instructor could not benefit too much from this program.

Here are my complains:
-In the trainer screen, there are pedal icons to start the training session. We have to constantly leave the keyboard to move the mouse. How hard would it be to have users step on the piano pedals or use the keyboard to control the computer?
-No midi editor. All of the piano homework we would like to practice using the program have to be entered through other programs. The import function does not always work properly. Too bad if one wants to edit just one note, the whole process has to be redone.
-The sheets on the screen are way too small. It is hard to see them.
-No way to know which keys are supposed to be the ones to press when doing a song. One has to guess until the computer says it is ok to move on. Try guessing at a piece that requires more than three fingers on each hand on the small vga monitor with all the notes close together.
-Old program. We run it on Win98 and it still doesn't properly recognize midi filenames longer than 8.3 characters. Maybe newer version running on WinXP don't have this problem. However, the program hasn't seemed to have changed much over the years.

We are going to order Adventus as it seems to address many, if not all, of these issues.

Teach Me Piano Deluxe - Voyetra

Not bad - But numerous bugs and missing features

Again! There are a few bugs in this 'un-finished' product.

Lessons are a little too fast, and there are not that many exercises (to my taste).
And, a few items missing:
- Why not show what note exactly was not/missed/erroneously played. This would be a very useful feature rather than having to blindly and stubornly play & re-play the same piece until the score comes satisfactory.
- Why not show as well where in the piece a time-counting mistake occured when the student plays an exercise.

In short, the programme does not provide much ground to build-on.
I preferred the Musicware Inc. Piano teaching software, but looks like the company closed a while ago.

Although incomplete to my opinion the product is still a good choice for the current market.

Voyetra - Teach Me Piano Deluxe

Amazing Program

Despite all the negative reviews, I gave it a try, and I am glad I did. I would like to give it a fair review here.

I use it on my P4 1.6M Laptop with USB Midi 1x1 connector (so it works) and my Casio Keyboard. I ran it for couple days and did not see any bugs or crashes reported by other users.

This program allows everyone to learn at their own pace. You can spend more time on any song if you want to or otherwise.

One of the most amazing features of this software is letting you to import any midi song, which is all over the internet, into the program for you to practice.

This is the best $50 you can spend if you'd like to learn piano.