eMedia Singing For Dummies Software with 80+ Beginner Lessons for Mac, Electronic Download

eMedia Singing For Dummies - Singing Lesson Software That Lets Anyone Learn to Sing!
eMedia Singing For Dummies is the fun and easy way to learn how to sing or how to sing better. Professional singer and voice teacher Ory Brown, M.M., guides you through over 80 easy-to-understand voice lessons. Her over 25 years of teaching and performance experience includes appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and on the Late Show with David Letterman.

The voice lessons included in eMedia Singing For Dummies teach you how to sing in tune, use proper singing techniques and how to develop and project your voice. eMedia Interactive Feedback technology listens to you sing using the computer microphone and lets you see when you are singing a note in tune. Performance Evaluation tracks the pitch and rhythm as you sing an entire piece. Color-coded notes show where you sang flat, sharp or in tune and the performance is given an overall score to make it easy to see your progress. Over 35 easy songs to sing are available as live recordings for male and female voices in both high and low ranges. Songs span a variety of styles and include hits from Diana Ross and John Lennon. eMedia Singing For Dummies is an exceptional value that will help you learn to sing with confidence!

Features include
• Over 80 comprehensive voice lessons that teach you how to sing better with tutorials on matching pitch, how to sing from your diaphragm and support your voice, understand vocal resonance, how to sing vowels and consonants and much more
• Over 30 videos and animations teaching you about your voice, proper singing techniques and how sound is produced by your body
• Interactive Feedback technology that listens to your singing via the computer microphone and then shows you the notes you're singing on screen in notation. Color coded notes display whether you're singing flat or sharp and an arrow shows whether you need to sing higher or lower
• Performance Evaluation that shows where you sang flat, sharp or in tune and grades your performance (including rhythms) for an entire piece
• Over 35 great songs to sing, such as "Imagine" by John Lennon, "Dancing in the Street," and "Stop! In the Name of Love," made famous by Diana Ross and the Supremes
• Lessons and songs with audio and variable-speed MIDI tracks where selections can be looped, slowed or sped up
• Professionally arranged live piano accompaniments that are fun to sing along with!
• A digital metronome to help your sense of rhythm and a recorder so you can hear yourself sing and track your progress

Learn how to sing better with eMedia Singing For Dummies!

The Fast and Easy Way to Learn to Sing
eMedia Singing For Dummies features songs in a variety of genres to make learning fun and memorable! It's fun to sing with a pianist accompanying you, so they have included professionally arranged live piano accompaniments along with MIDI versions that can be slowed down or sped up. Over 35 songs include hit songs popularized by well-known artists, such as:
• All Through the Night
• Angels they Have Heard On High
• Au Claire de la Lune
• Aura Lee
• Ave Maria
• Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
• Brother John
• Camptown Races
• Daisy
• Dancing in the Street
• Deck The Halls
• Give My Regards to Broadway
• Go Tell Aunt Rhody
• Good Morning To You
• Goodnight Ladies
• Greensleeves
• Home on the Range
• House of the Rising Sun
• Imagine
• In Dulci Jubilo
• In the Good Old Summertime
• La Bamba
• Listen to the Mockingbird
• Michael, Row The Boat Ashore
• My Bonnie
• Riddle Song
• Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Me
• Stop In The Name of Love
• Streets of Laredo
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• Tarara Boomdere
• Three Green Keys
• When I Was 17
• When the Saints Go Marching In

Over 80 Step-by-Step Vocal Lessons
Arranged in seven chapters, the lessons cover the basics from matching pitch, essential sight reading skills, breathing, supporting the voice, understanding resonance and how to form vowels and consonants. Lessons include a variety of exercises and songs. There are over 30 high quality videos and animations! On-screen teacher, Ory Brown, M.M., provides clear and friendly instruction.

Interactive Feedback on Your Singing
As you sing into your computer's microphone, Interactive Feedback will tell you if you're too high, too low or right in tune! Your computer will listen as you sing and highlight correctly sung notes in green. As you reach your goal of singing the melody correctly, you'll discover that reading music notation is easier than you ever thought possible!

Performance Evaluation
Performance Evaluation will listen to you sing the whole song and give specific feedback on mistakes as well as an overall score.

Over 30 Videos and Animations
Over 30 videos and animations show you exactly what to do and explain how to do it. Instructor Ory Brown, M.M., has over 25 years of experience as a voice teacher at universities and private schools. She also has a successful singing career, including appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and on Late Show with David Letterman.

Music Tracking
Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they're heard makes it easy to follow along.

Accompaniments
Practice is fun when you have a pianist accompanying you! Professionally arranged live piano accompaniments are included.

Variable-Speed MIDI
Slows down the audio to any tempo. Learn at the pace best suited to you!

Digital Metronome
Set your own speed and it will help you keep a steady beat. Provides both visual cue and/or audio tick. Full range of tempi, from largo to presto.

Digital Recorder
Record and play yourself back! This feature allows you to compare your recordings with the instructor's version, fine tune your skills and store musical ideas.