"Step 5" where the student is helped to get off the game, and read sheet music at the piano. The Piano Wizard Academy version is more popular as it introduces another critical level of music learning, i.e.
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This software is no longer sold separately since the development of the full Piano Wizard Academy. While the software was available separately, a bundle was made available that included an M-Audio Keystation 49e keyboard. Released in 2005, this educational software helps teach the student to play the piano through a patented 4-step learning approach. In particular, homeschool families and special needs communities have embraced this warmly due to the ease, affordability and sometimes dramatic success possible using these tools. This has proven to be a dramatic success, with hundreds of positive reviews, and testimonials. These materials were meant to empower parents, non-music educators and piano teachers alike to leverage the compressed concrete learning engendered by the game with the icing of musical artistic technique, and music theory as needed.
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Music Wizard and the Beatties then collaborated in the development of a series of 50 Tutorial DVD and Songbook lessons for the Academy Music Library. Don and Delayna finalized the 100 Song Lesson Series that is now the "Academy music curriculum" for the game. Over the next 3 years, their work as Academy Directors opened new horizons for young children and adult piano beginners, and they were challenged to "productize" their work, and create a self-sufficient package to allow maximum utility of the video game's potential. After the success of the boot camp, in the fall of 2005, Don and his wife Delayna founded and directed the Piano Wizard Academy at SIU Carbondale. The plan was to introduce a short week-long summer boot camp at the school. Understanding how students can benefit from music education, Salter met with Don Beattie, his former piano teacher at the SIU school of music to see how piano teachers could best utilize the game in their classrooms.
Salter incorporated his new business in under the name Allegro Multimedia, although the company is better known under the DBA ( Doing Business As) Music Wizard. Salter's idea was to start with a simple game, but then transition to reading music notation, allowing even very young children to learn to play and read music without the traditional necessity of music theory and notation deciphering as a "prerequisite" to playing.Īfter years of consideration, Salter decided to form a business to develop and manufacture the Piano Commando game (which went on to become Piano Wizard). Around this time the MIDI protocol for computers to deal with music was created, and the combination of the two concepts lead to the possibility of a game, with a twist. It was then that he first had the idea that a piano video game could have the same effect, with the added complexity of precision timing being much more important than with typing. With the early Apple computers he played a typing game, and soon he was typing 40 words per minute.
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Years before, Salter took classes to learn how to type, and failed pretty miserably at it, finding it boring and tedious. His insights on his thesis into the role visual cues have on teaching rhythm and guitar in Brazil led him to think about how that might facilitate learning to play other instruments like piano. Combining his two passions, he was able to enter the nationally recognized Ethnomusicology program at UCLA, win a two-year Organization of American States Fellowship to study abroad in Brazil to do his Master's thesis research, and then returned to get his Master's in Musicology from UCLA in 1990. He eventually took so many music courses that he ended up earning a double degree in Music and Linguistics from SIU. It was in this way he got his key insights about developmental linguistics, and became curious about the potential of learning music as if it were a native language. Parallel with this, he changed his major to Linguistics, and began to study French, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese languages. Beattie's innovative work and approach, and began to take many other music classes, while studying directly with Prof. Shortly after, Salter met piano instructor Don Beattie, who came to the School of Music in 1979, and joined a group piano class. Founder and CEO Chris Salter entered Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU) in 1978 to study cinematography and began producing films about music.
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