Features and Benefits

SmartMusic’s growing library includes:

• Band, jazz band, and orchestra titles, complete with educator-approved assignments for all parts
• Method books for band, strings, jazz ensemble, and recorder
• Solo accompaniments, perfect for recitals and contests, plus 50,000 skill-building exercises for musicians at all levels
• The ability for advanced players to play expressively with rubato and accompaniment that follows
• Jazz repertoire and innovative tools for learning improvisation

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Faulty technique develops when students practice at tempos that are too fast

SmartMusic allows for control over the tempo while enjoying the many benefits of accompaniment. Teachers can also send assignments at a specific tempo to effectively guide practice at home. Students can practice music slowly until they are able to get every note right. Then, as they gain confidence, they can gradually build up speed.

Record practice sessions for immediate feedback

SmartMusic’s built-in recording capability allows students to record their performances at home. This way, they can immediately review and analyze their playing. Recordings can also be submitted to teachers for additional feedback, shared with family and friends, archived to track progress, or sent to college auditions and with scholarship applications.

SmartMusic can also function as a stand-alone digital recorder. You can record yourself playing with or without a metronome click.

SmartMusic’s revolutionary assessment feature gives students
immediate feedback

As a student plays or sings an exercise or song, SmartMusic’s assessment feature displays the notes the student performed. Correctly executed notes appear in green; red notes indicate an incorrect pitch or rhythm. This immediate feedback gives students the opportunity to improve before the next lesson.

SmartMusic even grades the assessment based upon the percentage of correct (green) notes. With SmartMusic at home, students can complete assignments on their own and submit the grade, assessment screenshot, and a recording to their teacher with the click of a button.

Vocal-specific repertoire additions, which offer assessment support, include warm-ups, exercises, and sight-singing books.

SmartMusic gives instrumental students unique tools to improve
sight reading

SmartMusic gives vocal students unique tools to improve sight singing

When students press “Start take” on a sight-singing piece, they can listen to “Prep notes” to establish tonality and find their starting pitch, and take a moment to study the music before they must start to sing. Educators have several options in determining prep notes and how much study time students are allowed.

Exercises that motivate and challenge students

Scales and arpeggios are rarely a student’s favorite practice material, but SmartMusic makes learning these fundamental skills challenging and fun. More than 50,000 scale, interval, arpeggio, twister, and rhythm exercises are included in SmartMusic. Each can be customized to any key and articulation, has multiple accompaniment styles to choose from, and is displayed on-screen with assessment and grading.

Chromatic tuner improves intonation and the metronome helps students keep perfect time

SmartMusic lets you transpose any piece into any key and…

• Match music to vocal range
• Play vocal music on any instrument
• Practice jazz tunes in any key

Practice loops help students concentrate on difficult passages

SmartMusic’s unique practice loop lets students isolate and repeat difficult measures. Start slowly and build speed, focusing on the areas that need the most work.

If students are unsure of the fingering for any note, they need only to click on it

A fingering chart – specific to that note and the student’s instrument – appears on the screen.

Hear solo line and accompaniment independently

Play by Ear helps students develop their ears with graded
call-and-response exercises

Jazz patterns help students master the mechanics of any progression

Jazz exercises help students develop jazz vocabulary

SmartMusic’s virtual keyboard helps vocal students with starting
pitches and warm-ups

Students can use their mouse or computer keyboard to play any notes on SmartMusic’s virtual keyboard, as well as major and minor chords and arpeggios. The keyboard can be moved anywhere on-screen and can resize to four octaves if desired.

Only Finale can create SmartMusic Accompaniments.

Scan, play, click, or use a MIDI file to enter your notes in Finale and then export your music as a SmartMusic file.

Simply open your score, Choose Export as SmartMusic from Finale’s file menu, and specify the type of accompaniment you’d like.

Students select their instrument from the resulting SmartMusic file.

Watch the QuickStart Video for more tips on Finale created files.

Skill-building Exercises

Finale’s Exercise Wizard is compatible with the exercises in SmartMusic. In Finale you can print parts in the correct key and range for the voices or instruments you select. Then use the accompaniments in SmartMusic for your next ensemble rehearsal.

A SmartMusic subscription is required to use accompaniments created in Finale. You will need the most current version of SmartMusic to use the newest versions of Finale, but SmartMusic can open accompaniments created in previous versions of Finale.