On 19 Sep 2008 at 15:05, dhbailey wrote: > I've never understood the reasoning behind SmartMusic's > ability to follow the student's tempo -- aren't we supposed > to learn it's bad to slow down in the hard parts and speed > up in the easy parts? How does that tempo-following ability > help the student to learn to keep a steady tempo? I do > realize it can be switched off but I've never understood the > need for it to be included in the first place.
I don't know this for a fact, but I always assumed this was so that a human being could have an automated accompaniment that follows the human being's tempo. As a New Yorker, the example that springs to mind is the busker in the subway station, who might be playing the tune to, say, Saint-Saëns' The Swan with a computer following along providing the accompaniment. Obviously, for teaching purposes with kids, you'd turn off this feature, but for "grown-ups," it would be pretty useless without it, no? -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
