LITTLE MUSICIAN - now in OPEN BETA TESTING (with a complete curriculum)!

[DannyandAmy]

Got the Little Musician up, but even after downloading the license key (had some trouble with this but my husband helped me), the Little Musician says that I am on a 'trial,' and that I have 15 days to update my license key. What do I do now to be able to continue the beta testing until May 10?

[KL]

Just a few suggestions - I don't know if I'm being pedantic - but colour scheme during the chord progression and solfege - can it be a bit more pleasing to the eye? i think I'm quite visual but maybe you use complementary colour schemes for the session.

Colors are random, so sometimes they may clash, sometimes they may look pleasing. 
However, you can fix the colors manually if you want:  Turn "Override" (on the Play panel at the bottom) ON, click on the Settings icon, click on Display & Sound, Staff tab, turn on Note Color, and set your color there.

Suggestion for the playing of popular classics. Maybe do some photo eye play pictures rather than a white screen, get the right brain training on at the same time!!

We are working on visuals for this, but it won't make it to the first release.

With the first chord progression, I don't know whether it is important, but should you mention the note names do, mi, so or maybe name of the key or is it just to familiarise the child with the sound before the later segment with the solfege names?

The point of the lesson is this - every time you hear that chord, you'll immediately think of singing "domiso".  If you can do this, you'll know what sounds/pitches the chord is made of, and what each of those sounds/pitches are in solfege.

Now do you have Little Reader French ready yet??????  (joking)

Getting closer and closer. It will be even closer once Little Reader v3 is released - LR users will get to beta test it very soon.

The Little Musician Beta will be usable until May 10th, 2012 - will you extend that if the "real" version isn't quite ready for release?   Will anything from the Beta version still function/be usable after May 10?    Will you run any deals for Little Musician once it's released?      Can points be used towards purchase of software or curriculum? 

Yes, will extend if the final version is not ready by then.  No, beta will self-destruct on May 10th.
Haven't decided on the rest. Please stay tuned.

Got the Little Musician up, but even after downloading the license key (had some trouble with this but my husband helped me), the Little Musician says that I am on a 'trial,' and that I have 15 days to update my license key. What do I do now to be able to continue the beta testing until May 10?

I think you missed out Step 3, which is downloading and importing the content pack which contains the curriculum.  You can just do that step now, and it should work.

[candiesnlollies]

Hi,

I just downloaded LMs, tried the first lesson, very impressive. My daughter will be 5 this year. I hope it is not too late for her, we ve been waiting for years. We ve just started using Soft Mozart since mid february, so far she loves it and plays the piano everyday, on free will! She is able to play all introductory songs in Soft Mozart, and is starting 2 new songs on the Nursery Song list. Lets hope she will love LMs too.

[nrl]

Hi,
Looks great!
Just a suggestion for the Clap-a-long section. I am a Musikgarten teacher, so teach music to 18 Months- 3 Years as well as 4 to 6 year old children. My experience is that the children have trouble clapping so slowly. I would suggest it would be better to start with clapping on every beat rather than 1 per bar. It's the natural way children move to music when they hear it as well.
Greetings
Natalie

[KL]

I just downloaded LMs, tried the first lesson, very impressive. My daughter will be 5 this year. I hope it is not too late for her, we ve been waiting for years.

Certainly not too late.  I truly believe that LMs is useful even for adults, and the feedback I've been getting from testers seem to confirm that.  Of course, the younger you start, the better, but there's no point dwelling on the time that has past.

Just a suggestion for the Clap-a-long section. I am a Musikgarten teacher, so teach music to 18 Months- 3 Years as well as 4 to 6 year old children. My experience is that the children have trouble clapping so slowly. I would suggest it would be better to start with clapping on every beat rather than 1 per bar. It's the natural way children move to music when they hear it as well.

Interesting, thanks very much for that very useful comment!  Which age group is it more difficult for, the younger or older?  I presume you mean the younger?  I was actually afraid that the younger groups wouldn't be able to keep up.

Would love to have more input on this from others.

[nrl]

Hi, just a few things I've noticed.....

Not all viola pictures are violas. Some have spike (not extended) and no chin rest (not that a chin rest is always necessary), but they look like cellos to me.

Day 260 Rhythm:
The last 2 notes are written as 1/4 notes but are spoken 'Ti Ti' 1/8 Notes

The Brass 1 mp3 sounds like a saxophone group rather than a brass group.

[apapovich]

Just downloaded LM and watched 1st lesson with my 21 moths old son. We loved it both!! It was pleasant to start with Tchaikovsky... one of my favorites!! So cool, THANKS!

[tlyoung]

My son liked lesson one and must have really paid attention. I thought he was a bit bored during some of the lesson, I guess nor. He went and got a toy that played the 1812 overture after we finished! I was stunned and he was so proud of himself.

[lzp11]

I just downloaded LMs and watched the first lesson with my 3 year old and 8 month old. We all loved it! DD (aged 3) was singing the solfege and the little one seemed transfixed!

I do agree that the clapping was a bit slow. I clapped along slowly but DD ignored the slower beat and clapped along in time with the tune instead. She did really enjoy this section and wanted to repeat but I was a bit worried as she wasn't really getting the steady beat concept.

[Mandabplus3]

Oh boy! I haunt been this excited since.....I found this forum 
Thank you thank you thank you! Ok now to tell the truth I am excited for myself, I think I will get as much from this as my kids will
Quick question, above you mentioned that the colours can be set rather than random colours.  Does that mean we can set one colour for each note and have it the same each time? I ask because at school my kids learn do re me and each one has a different colour, it would be good to have it all match up. Others may be interesting in matching it to other music programs (rainbow piano). Anyway I am off to download it, perhaps the answer will slap me in the face once I do 

[Skylark]

On clapping -- my younger ( as studios as he is) having a hard time doing the slower clapping and claps perfectly on beat, but on every beat/every second beat. I think the older the child, the easier it will get for her/him to wait 3 beats and clap on the 4th, but for younger ones it is more difficult, and they prefer to clap more often. may be we can have different options?

[Mae_Jakob_Ka]

Hi,
Looks great!
Just a suggestion for the Clap-a-long section. I am a Musikgarten teacher, so teach music to 18 Months- 3 Years as well as 4 to 6 year old children. My experience is that the children have trouble clapping so slowly. I would suggest it would be better to start with clapping on every beat rather than 1 per bar. It's the natural way children move to music when they hear it as well.
Greetings
Natalie

I agree with Natalie.

My 3 years old son has trouble clapping slowly. He tends to clap according to the beats. He loves Clap Along lessons, though.
Also, he hums do mi so fa la do all day..

Elle

[Lali]

I could not wait to try it.  I installed this morning as soon as I got the email with the link.  I tried it in a very small laptop that has windows and it worked very nicely.  My son of 12 months loved it!! I am a musician myself and this product is heaven sent!! please release it fast!! 
Any possibility it can be made for MACS??? I love macs and I have not been using windows since 2002.  It is hard to get use to it again as macs are so much more intuitive.  I just order LR, LR chinese, and will order also LM and and LMusician as it is release. 
It would have been perfect if they would have been mac compatible! 

[Skylark]

Lali, it is in works!

[KL]

Thanks for the feedback about the clapping, everyone!  We will swap around 'every beat' with 'first beat' for the Clap-Along lessons.
We'll probably also need to remove/replace the 3/4 beat songs cos every beat for these songs will be a bit too fast.

Hi, just a few things I've noticed.....

Not all viola pictures are violas. Some have spike (not extended) and no chin rest (not that a chin rest is always necessary), but they look like cellos to me.

Day 260 Rhythm:
The last 2 notes are written as 1/4 notes but are spoken 'Ti Ti' 1/8 Notes

The Brass 1 mp3 sounds like a saxophone group rather than a brass group.

Great catch, thank you!!  Better watch out - if you carry on like this, we may have to give you a secret reward...

Re 260 Rhythm lesson - it displays fine for me. Can you please help me take a screen shot of what you see?
(Press "PrtScn" or "Print Screen" button and paste onto MS Word or Powerpoint).

Quick question, above you mentioned that the colours can be set rather than random colours.  Does that mean we can set one colour for each note and have it the same each time? I ask because at school my kids learn do re me and each one has a different colour, it would be good to have it all match up. Others may be interesting in matching it to other music programs (rainbow piano).

Funny you should mention this.  First, yes, you are able to do it, but you have to do it as a new icon set (and choose "By note" instead of "simple"). If you try this, MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON BUILD 561. 560 will crash on you, big time.  Second, we are actually about to implement this by adding a rainbow colored icon set.

Please add your thoughts to this discussion thread I've just opened:

http://forum.brillkids.com/little-musician-general-discussion/using-different-colors-for-different-notes-opinions-please!/

Any possibility it can be made for MACS???

Eventually, I'm sure - YES.  However, I wouldn't hold my breath for it... You're more likely to see it on the ipad first before you do on the Mac, just like you are seeing LR on the iPad first (Mac version will be based off the iPad app.)

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