Recent Comments:
'Guitar Wizard' -- Like 'Guitar Hero' With a Real Guitar {Switched.com}
Jan 13th 2008 6:52PM As a member of the Music Wizard Group team, I can report that we think Guitar Hero is a great toy, and has been enormously successful at instilling in people a love for creating music. That's where we step in.
Guitar Wizard can not only teach you how to play almost any song on any guitar, it can also teach you how to read real written music. Piano Wizard, our flagship program selling since fall of 2005, has proven time and again that our Wizard technology teaches people in mere minutes to play the piano and read music. We've won several awards and acclaim for our revolutionary method, dubbed "The Teaching System of the Future" (Future Music Magazine).
Guitar Wizard's five-step method is completely scalable for any age or level of musicianship. It works on any steel-stringed guitar, yours or ours. You can choose which and how many strings you play, the tempo, the song, and any of the five steps to play in.
Want to expand your repertoire? Go onto http://www.WizardTunes.com and download some of our thousands of MIDI files to add into the game. Your choice of music is virtually limitless, making Guitar Wizard last a lifetime.
To learn more about Piano Wizard and Guitar Wizard, please visit http://www.EvenYouCanPlay.com.
Jan Altman
Evangelist/Creative
Music Wizard Group
Guitar Wizard: Guitar Hero with a real guitar {Engadget}
Jan 4th 2008 5:03PM Thanks, DeoWulf. You still can learn that way if you like. Adults buy Piano Wizard from us all the time, actually. And parents buy it for both themselves and their kids.
Check out http://www.EvenYouCanPlay.com. It's never too late to bring music into your life.
Jan :-)
Guitar Wizard: Guitar Hero with a real guitar {Engadget}
Jan 4th 2008 2:19PM Hey, gang, Jan from Music Wizard here. Guitar Wizard uses our patented 4-step method which can have anyone learning to play in minutes. Piano Wizard (already selling for a couple of years now) introduced this method to the world, and has garnered awards and tons of rave reviews (www.MusicWizard.com/piano_wizard/awards.php). Even a 3-year-old can play Step 1, and by the time you get to Step 4, you're actually reading real musical notes. After the 4 steps, kids have easily transitioned to a real piano with no trouble at all.
Guitar Wizard will be on shelves mid-2008. We get asked about it constantly! :-)
The screen shot on this page shows Step 1 before the game is started. You are holding a real MIDI guitar with colored stickers on the frets. Start the game and you'll see colored objects floating up the screen towards the guitar neck up top. When an object reaches the matching colored fret, you play the correspondingly-colored fret on the guitar in your hands (think DDR). You completely control both tempo, and even which and how many strings you're playing at once. Practice one string, practice another, practice both together, etc. Then go a little faster.
Step 2 turns the screen 90 degrees to correspond to the horizontal orientation of written music. Step 3 turns the colored objects into floating musical notes on a real staff. At Step 4, the color is removed, and you're actually reading black notes and playing a song on a real guitar! (We've had people do this in about 10 minutes on Piano Wizard.) (Really.)
We'll be showcasing Guitar Wizard at the CES show in Las Vegas next week. Please come by our booth and say that you learned about us here at engadget. (I personally will be doing demos in the Disney booth.) Then you'll see why we're so excited!
More info? Contact me at jan {at} MusicWizard {dot} com. Happy New Year, everyone!
