motivating
students,
transforming
music programs
The essential teaching and
learning tool that guides
student development
Band • Orchestra • Choir
Students practice more, build skills, and gain confidence with SmartMusic®.
Students discover their musical abilities and improve rapidly with SmartMusic. The one-of-a-kind
practice software is an essential tool for educators who wish to transform their music programs.
With SmartMusic, students master technical skills faster while developing musicianship and engaging
with music on a deep, meaningful level. That gives you the freedom to focus on the nuances of
performance and the pleasure of making music with your students.
Inside:
accelerate the progress
of each student
real students
real learning
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your music program
Find out how easy it is to
integrate SmartMusic into
your band, orchestra, and
choral programs.
SmartMusic helps students:
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Develop technical skills quickly – practicing slowly at first,
then building speed
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Get more from home practice with instant performance feedback
from recordings and assessment
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Gain the confidence to perform and solo in concert and at contest
The essential teaching and learning tool helps you:
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Develop ensemble skills thanks to home practice that fosters students’
listening skills as they perform
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Achieve national standards with practical means to document success
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Document individual student progress with assessment tools like
recordings and graded assignments
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real music
energizing
Create your own files in Finale® and play and assess them
with SmartMusic
SmartMusic makes practicing fun and inspires students to develop:
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Improvisation skills for playing the blues and jazz tunes
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A passion for making music today and for a lifetime
SmartMusic students build skills
and improve rapidly
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Get beginners started right and
document their progress
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Students solo
with confidence at contest
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Largest solo accompaniment
library in the world
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Now every student can learn
to improvise
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Over 50,000 skill-building exercises
for beginners to advanced students
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Get SmartMusic for yourself
and your students
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www.smartmusic.com
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How Does it Work?
The SmartMusic system listens to students sing or play through
a microphone attached to a computer. With accompaniments for
over 30,000 titles, students practice their individual part while
listening to the piece as a whole. They see – and hear – immediate
feedback on how well they’re doing.
improve rapidly
Building a Solid
Foundation for Progress
Helpful Feedback
and Assessment
Documenting
Student Progress with
SmartMusic Assignments
Students develop technical skills rapidly with SmartMusic. They can practice
music slowly at first until they get every note right. Then, as they gain confidence, they can gradually build up speed. SmartMusic lets students practice
at any tempo. In addition, difficult passages can be put into practice loops in
order to focus student practice.
With SmartMusic, students can hear how their part is to be performed. As they
practice the methods and exercises, they get real-time feedback that guides and
motivates them. Colored notes appear on the computer screen to help students
understand what they did wrong and how to correct it. They can record themselves and then listen to how they sound upon playback. Recordings make it easy
for students to hear the adjustments they need to make in order to improve.
It’s easy to integrate SmartMusic into your program. Add SmartMusic computers
to a school practice room and encourage students and parents to get SmartMusic
at home. Then give students a SmartMusic assignment such as a scale, Play By
Ear, or rhythm exercise. Students practice the assignment with SmartMusic until
they perfect it. Then they e-mail you the graded assessment and/or recording.
Now you have documentation of each student’s individual progress.
key features
SmartMusic students build skills and
Metronome accents
downbeats and plays
subdivisions, even in
complex meters
Practice slowly at first,
then gradually increase
tempo
Record an exercise or piece with
instant feedback and save the assessment. Students can submit the results
to teachers via e-mail or on disk
Transpose to any key
and match music to a
specific vocal range
Groundbreaking
Intelligent Accompaniment®
Hear how the solo
line is performed
Set how closely Intelligent
Accompaniment follows,
or turn it off
Warm-up with
vocal exercises and
built-in piano
Click to hear
starting note
Focus on difficult
passages with
practice loops
Tuner plays simultaneous
reference notes so that
students can hear and see
correct pitches
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www.smartmusic.com
“SmartMusic actually listens as you
sing or play, and follows your students’
spontaneous tempo changes as they
interpret the music. When they slow
down, it slows down. When they speed
up, it speeds up. It even waits for them
as they hold a note! It’s like playing
with a good human accompanist.
Accompaniment makes practicing fun so
your students want to practice longer and
more often. They get better, faster. Only
when students practice with accompaniment can they work on things like being
in tune, keeping good time, and learning
to listen.”
Wynton Marsalis, musician,
composer, band leader,
Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winner
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Beginning Band and String Methods Come to Life
with SmartMusic
Comprehensive Support for Popular Titles
SmartMusic supports popular method books for band and string
instruments, including:
Get beginners started right and
document their progress
Beginners master basic skills quickly with SmartMusic. SmartMusic makes it possible for you to
extend your influence and ensure students receive the music education they deserve.
Productive
Home Practices
Step by Step
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Accent on Achievement
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21st Century Band Methods
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Essential Elements 2000
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String Explorer
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Standard of Excellence
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And more. . .
key features
At school, you teach beginning students fingerings and rhythms,
demonstrate how the song is supposed to sound, encourage them
to practice slowly at first then gradually gain speed, and correct
their mistakes along the way. But what happens when students
go home to practice?
Stimulating and Fun
Students practice longer and more often because SmartMusic makes it fun! The
interactive system challenges students and helps them achieve mastery quickly,
leading to a sense of accomplishment and pride. Students like how they sound
with SmartMusic.
Better Prepared
More effective home practices mean students arrive back at school better prepared for their next lesson or rehearsal. You can move on to the next lesson and
spend less time correcting the bad habits students sometimes develop.
Capture the Excitement,
Document
the Achievement
As students continue to improve, they can record themselves playing, save the
recording to disk, or e-mail the file to friends and proud grandparents. Built-in
assessment features help you document the progress of each individual student
with recorded data.
John O’Reilly, author of Accent on Achievement
Practice at any tempo
Students hear solo and
learn how it’s performed
Wrong notes
turn red
With SmartMusic at home, students practice what you’ve already taught them
about fingerings, rhythms, and how the song is supposed to sound. Most
importantly, students can practice songs at a slow, comfortable tempo and
then gradually build up speed when they’re ready.
As students play, they see feedback on-screen in the form of green and red
notes indicating which notes and rhythms have been played correctly. Students
can try again and correct their mistakes immediately!
“SmartMusic reinforces student progress
with Accent on Achievement. Its assessment capabilities, instant fingering
charts, tuner, and record features make
home practice fun and instructive.”
Correct notes
turn green
Notes played
early display
to the left
Notes played
late display
to the right
Grades can be e-mailed or
saved to disk along with the
recording and screen display
Students listen and get immediate feedback,
record themselves, and save the file to disk
or e-mail it to a teacher, family, or friends
Plays reference notes so
students hear, as well as
see, where the pitch is
Clickable notes show
fingering charts
Built-in tuner helps students
tune strings and adjust horns
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www.smartmusic.com
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Participation Increases, Results Improve
Ensuring Success
Students like how they sound with SmartMusic and look forward to demonstrating their talent and
skill at contest. When students have SmartMusic at home, they can practice their contest solo with
accompaniment every day. They learn their part and the composition as a whole. That makes them
stronger musicians.
“I use SmartMusic to give every student three contest solo assignments to do at home:
1. They send me a recording of the piece they’ve selected, showing me it’s an
appropriate contest piece.
2. They send me a second recording a few weeks later showing the progress they’ve
made. This gives me a chance to help them with any problem passages.
As students prepare for contest, they can record themselves, hear any pitch or rhythm errors,
make adjustments instantly, and get better – all on their own! As they improve, they hear it in their
recordings. Soon they’re confident in how they sound and excited to go to contest.
Mark Corey, Addison Trail High School
Largest solo
Mastering Solos with SmartMusic
SmartMusic includes more than
30,000 solo titles for students in band,
orchestra, and choir:
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Check pitches with the built-in tuner
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Record themselves for instant
feedback and self-evaluation
Hear the solo line to learn how
it’s performed
Transpose music to match their
vocal range
Practice slowly at first, gradually
build up tempo
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Isolate and master tough
passages with practice loops
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Explore different interpretations
with accompaniments that
follow their tempo
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E-mail recordings or save to disk
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Practice performing with
SmartMusic for friends and family
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Contest titles from state lists
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Musicals, art songs,
religious and holiday favorites
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Search the complete catalog
of accompaniments
at www.smartmusic.com
All grade levels
!
new
Music displays on-screen for
all woodwind, brass, and string
instruments and in any key:
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West Side Story
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My Fair Lady
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Porgy and Bess
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Baroque titles
Sheet music purchased separately for most titles.
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Plus, create your own
accompaniments in Finale
“Before I got SmartMusic I had 15-20
students playing at contest every year;
now I have 100 to 125. SmartMusic
has made all the difference.”
Sheet music required for vocal parts;
practice in any key.
vocal repertoire
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Select a solo by listening to
SmartMusic play it
contest solos
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accompaniment library in the world
Sharon Uribe, Basset Middle School,
El Paso, TX
for strings
SmartMusic includes robust tools to help students prepare a solo. Students can:
band methods
know what? They really are!”
Students solo
with confidence at contest
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3. They send me a third recording showing me they are ready for contest. And you
Browse the entire SmartMusic repertoire at
www.smartmusic.com
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Music educators have long struggled to teach jazz improvisation.
That’s about to change. SmartMusic helps students develop the
vocabulary and grammar they need for improvisation. Innovative
practice tools foster confidence in a private setting until students
are ready to solo with self-assurance. Most importantly, SmartMusic
doesn’t just help your best students, it helps all your students.
And they all want to play the blues.
Now every student can learn to
play by ear
play the blues
Learning to Play by Ear
Students play...
Students learn to play by ear with
practice exercises and real-time
feedback. Assessment scores and
sound recordings can be saved
and e-mailed to document each
student’s progress.
...then see assessment
Students listen to
SmartMusic play
SmartMusic students can:
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Practice at any tempo
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Isolate tough chord changes with
practice loops
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Transpose a tune to any key
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Be assessed on exercises for blues,
ii-V7-l, and iii-vi-ii-V7-l progressions
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Record their performance to hear
if they’re swinging
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Make CDs and e-mail recordings
of assignments to teachers
on-screen
transcriptions
Your jazz band sounds great . . . until the improvised solo
Drums
Then students play what they
heard—SmartMusic shows
them the first note
SmartMusic grades their performance
and shows them what they did wrong
Piano
Bass lines
Jazz Patterns
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On-screen Transcriptions
jazz patterns
SmartMusic displays jazz patterns for
any tune on-screen to help students
master the vocabulary of the
progression. Select from Tonics,
123, 321, 1235, 5321, 1357, 7531,
and more.
Get SmartMusic Now! Visit
www.smartmusic.com
Help your rhythm section comp
behind soloists. SmartMusic provides
on-screen transcriptions of Wynton
Marsalis’ rhythm section and other
top artists. Students see and hear the
music as they practice along at any
tempo and learn to comp.
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SmartMusic keeps students practicing
SmartMusic students practice scales, intervals, and arpeggios in any key and tempo, and with
multiple accompaniments. Rhythm exercises include simple and compound rhythms for beginning
to advanced players. SmartMusic also includes lots of twisters – technical exercises that challenge
fingers and tongues.
Practice scales, intervals, arpeggios, and twisters in
any key and tempo with multiple accompaniments
In the Exercise Menu, select from a wide
range of exercises for all skill levels
With such a broad and deep collection of exercises included in SmartMusic, you can easily assign
students at all levels an individual course of study. SmartMusic’s built-in assessment tools make it
possible – even easy – for you to track and document the individual progress of each student.
Over 50,000
Exercises for beginners
Variety of scale patterns, each in
any key with any articulation
skill-building exercises
for beginners to advanced students
Record yourself, save it to
CD or e-mail to your teacher
for a grade
Select articulation:
slur 2 tongue 2, slur 3
tongue 1, etc.
Slow tempos down
on tough passages
Select any key
Select from a variety
of accompaniments
Loop the exercise –
even cycle it through
all 12 keys!
Select any instrument
or voice, or clap
a rhythm
Click on a note to
see its standard and
alternate fingerings
Intervals from 2nds to 9ths
Arpeggios with triads and
seventh chords
Each exercise is numbered and has
multiple accompaniments in different
styles to choose from.
Did you know?
Assessment for woodwinds, brass,
and strings – correct notes turn
green, wrong notes turn red
Music appears on computer
screen, no separate sheet
music required
Optional cursor
Rhythm exercise example
You can create exercises and
accompaniments in Finale
for your students to practice
in SmartMusic!
“Not only am I improving, the whole
band is getting better because of
SmartMusic.”
Drew, 11th grade
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Get SmartMusic Now! Visit
www.smartmusic.com or call 888.874.2144
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Start transforming your music program today!
“My students discover so much with
SmartMusic. They hear how their part
should sound, practice tough sections
at slow tempos, and learn from the
assessment features that show what
they did wrong and how to do it right.
Students record themselves, hear how
they really sound, and then make
corrections instantly – even when I’m
not there!
Get SmartMusic for your school, practice rooms, or private studio. The CD-ROM includes the entire
repertoire of more than 30,000 accompaniments, including solos, collections, and band and string
method books. Your paid subscription unlocks all of the repertoire of titles for use in the SmartMusic
system. Once you’ve installed the software and activated your subscription, no ongoing Internet
connection is required to use the system.
They are energized. They like the way
they sound with SmartMusic. They’re
volunteering to perform solos in
rehearsal and even at concerts! That’s
never happened before.”
get smartmusic
for yourself and your students
Phil Louden, music teacher
Genoa Middle School Westerville, Ohio
1. Educator Base Subscription $100 per year for the first computer in your building
Each building (e.g., school or private studio) must purchase a base subscription.
The base subscription provides one SmartMusic license for a single computer.
2. Add On $25 per year for each additional computer
Add SmartMusic to more computers for an incredibly low yearly fee. There is no
minimum or limit to the number of add-on subscriptions you can purchase at
this price. Specify exactly what you need for your colleagues or practice rooms.
SmartMusic for Your base subscription entitles you to sponsor home subscriptions
for all your students for only $25 each, per year!
3. Students at Home
There are two options for administering accounts and collecting payment:
A
Educator administers the account. With this option, you order
subscriptions for your students, collect payment, and distribute the SmartMusic
CDs and accessories. Your students activate their subscriptions with the code
you chose. All home subscriptions for students will begin on the same date.
B
Students buy subscriptions directly from www.smartmusic.com.
With this option, students purchase their own home subscription (with help from
a parent or guardian if necessary). You collect no money. You simply create a
code at www.smartmusic.com, and we e-mail purchasing instructions for you to
forward to your students. They will buy their home subscription with the code
you chose, and the CD will be mailed to their house.
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To order SmartMusic
Visit www.smartmusic.com and click on “get smartmusic.”
Need to order using a P.O.? If your school requires a P.O., follow these steps:
Go to www.smartmusic.com and click on “get smartmusic”
to download the order form (.pdf)
Fax your completed form together with your P.O.
to 952.937.9670
Or mail the form and P.O. to:
MakeMusic, Inc.
7615 Golden Triangle Drive, Suite M
Eden Prairie, MN 55344-3848
www.smartmusic.com
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“SmartMusic is revolutionizing music education. It encourages you
to play with expression, to communicate what’s inside of you, and to
project your personality into the music. SmartMusic makes practicing
fun and invites you into the emotion of music-making.”
Wynton Marsalis, musician,
composer, band leader,
Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winner
“Using SmartMusic for the past three school years has made me a
better teacher. This tool has been an educational dream for me as
I deal with 285 different students each week.”
Dr. Glenn Pohland,
high school band director
“95% of students using SmartMusic receive the highest rating.”
Lisa Galvin, director of bands,
Hilliard Heritage Middle School
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
WINDOWS®: Pentium III® -class 800MHz processor
or higher, 256 MB RAM, Windows® 98SE/ME/
2000/XP. CD-ROM drive. 650 MB free disk space.
Microphone. Direct X 9 compatible sound card
with full duplex support. One available USB or
serial port for the foot pedal (optional). Monitor
resolution must be 800x600 or higher.
Get more online. Visit us at
www.smartmusic.com for:
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Videos of Wynton Marsalis explaining the system
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Teacher success stories
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Best practices
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Searchable repertoire catalog
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SmartMusic subscriptions
®
MACINTOSH : 867MHz G4 or higher processor,
Mac OS 10.2.8 or higher. 512 MB RAM
(256 MB RAM minimum). CD-ROM drive.
675 MB free disk space. Microphone and
microphone adaptor. Additional USB port
for the foot pedal (optional). Monitor
resolution must be 800x600 or higher.
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7615 Golden Triangle Drive, Suite M
Eden Prairie, MN 55344-3848
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