Learning Games: Learn new musical concepts the fun, interactive way!

A student’s MusicStation time is helpful to both the student and the teacher.

• Students can work at their own pace to complete each lesson. When this happens, the students are more likely to remember the new concepts they have just learned.
• Teachers can use the student’s MusicStation time to reinforce concepts learned in the lesson, enhancing the student’s understanding and accelerating the learning process.
• MusicStation games are lots of fun, and when learning is fun, students learn new concepts much more easily!

Here is a list of some of the learning games installed on each MusicStation:

• Alfred Essentials of Music Theory
• Music Ace
• Music Ace 2
• Music Conservatory
• Music Games
• Musition
• Pianomouse Meets the Great Composers
• Pianomouse Music Theory FUNdamentals
• Practica Musica
• MiDisaurus

… and much more!

Music Creation: Learn how to create your own music!

Rhapsody Arts Center’s MusicStation Lab isn’t just for learning games. Aspiring composers (and those who just want to have fun creating music) can easily record, edit and print their own creations. Performers young and old will enjoy improvising with a virtual band in countless musical styles and instruments. Really ambitious students can even learn how to design their own instrument sounds and use them in their compositions. The possibilities are limitless!

Students can easily create their own songs using Finale Notepad, even if they have never written a song before. They can then listen to their compositions performed using high-quality instrument sounds, record them to CD, or print them to take home and play later.

Each MusicStation comes with Emagic’s Logic Fun sequencer installed. Using a MIDI keyboard, students can record each instrument part of their composition into Logic Fun and then make a copy onto CD or MP3. More advanced students will enjoy Quartz AudioMaster, a sequencer that gives the student even more control over his or her musical recordings.

Powered by E-MU’s SoundFont® technology, students can hear their compositions reproduced using realistic wave-table synthesis, a technology that renders each sound using recordings of real instruments. Students can access thousands of instruments sounds, allowing them to create professional-sounding recordings with ease. Click Here* to listen to an example of what can be done with a MusicStation.

* Audio example is Copyright 2005 by S. Christian Collins. All rights reserved.