Apex Teaching you Recorder Skills

Product Overview
Teaching-you Recorder Skills is the ultimate beginners CD-ROM for anyone who wants to learn to play the descant recorder. Starting from the basics of assembling your recorder through to and including all the knowledge required for Grade 1, this program will teach you all you need to know in a clear and friendly way. As you progressively learn the key fingering positions and how to read music, you can play along to backing tracks or have a go at performing a solo.

Practice your newly learnt skills with real audio accompaniments. Speed up, slow down or mute other instruments, or select certain bars to loop, allowing you to practice tricky areas. Other features include a metronome facility for all MIDI tracks and a recording facility so that you can record yourself playing and record your progress – you can even write your tunes to a CD*! On completion of Teaching-you Recorder Skills, you’ll have mastered all the practical skills needed for the Royal College of Music Grade 1.

Features
100 lessons in ten chapters each with a printable score and PDF
•100 supporting tutorial videos so you can see exactly how to play
•Starts from beginners level through to and including Royal College of Music Grade 1
•MIDI backing tracks with variable speed
•Real audio accompaniments with volume and pan controls
•Looped practice allows you to focus on any tricky areas
•Fingering chart facility for all notes covered in the program
•Recording facility records your performance so you can review your progress
•Teaches you how to read music

System Requirements
Windows 98, Windows Millennium, Windows XP, Windows 95, Windows 98 SE 
•Windows 95/98/Me/XP
•Pentium 300 or above
•64MB RAM
•800 x 600 screen display
•16 bit sound card