Demos with Wynton Marsalis

View videos of Wynton Marsalis explaining SmartMusic

Musician, composer, band leader, Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winner Wynton Marsalis believes in the power of SmartMusic to help students improve their skills and develop musicianship. Wynton tells you why in the video clips below. Get help viewing videos.

Why is SmartMusic such an important practice tool?

Make practicing fun.
Everybody's got to practice... SmartMusic makes it fun!

Students need accompaniment when they practice. Playing with accompaniment helps students get better, faster.

Revolutionizing music education
SmartMusic helps students get better faster... practicing can be fun!

Key features of SmartMusic

What is Intelligent Accompaniment?
SmartMusic listens and follows spontaneous tempo changes.

Intelligent Accompaniment example
Listen to SmartMusic follow Cynthia’s singing.

Complete music practice system
Metronome, warm-ups, fingering charts… everything students need for productive practice time.

Get students in tune
The built-in tuner helps students see and hear where the pitch should be performed.

Transpose any title into any key
Vocalists can match the music to their range, and jazz students can practice blues in every key.

Practice loops help students master difficult passages
Students can take a tough measure and slow it down, then build up speed gradually.

Fingering charts, music terms dictionary, and more
Students can click on a note to see its fingering, look up a composer’s bio, or study information about the piece they’re practicing.

Customize the accompaniments
SmartMusic allows you to save customized accompaniments for each of your students.

More than 30,000 titles in a variety of genres
Select from classical, jazz, music theater, pop, rock, holiday... or make your own!

Accompaniments to over 50,000 exercises
Scales, arpeggios, and other technical exercises are fun and challenging with SmartMusic’s jazz, rock, reggae, and other accompaniments.

Record your students and make a CD!
Students learn faster when they hear themselves play. Recordings can be burned to disk or e-mailed to friends and family.

Hear Wynton play Hindemith with SmartMusic
Sonatas and concertos come to life with SmartMusic accompaniment.

Assessment and instruction
SmartMusic uses color graphics to show students their mistakes and how to correct them. Grades can be e-mailed to teachers.

All that Jazz!

Teaching jazz improvisation
SmartMusic has unique features that help all students learn to have fun improvising.

Hear Wynton jam with SmartMusic
Practicing the blues.

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