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(More customer reviews)Full Disclosure here, I am the CEO and founder of Music Wizard, creator of Piano Wizard, responding to the product reviewed above as being "like Guitar Hero".
Sigh. There is a customer comment on that review that points out that there are other levels that take the player to reading sheet music. Maybe some people clicked through, wondering how this could be so different from most reviews of the product, and bravo for those people who took the time to click through and see that there may be more to the program than what he said.
I normally don't comment, but I feel like this guy so completely missed the boat that I need to speak up.
Here are some of the top ways that this product is different from "Guitar Hero" or "Rock Band"
A) It uses a real instrument. Any digital keyboard will work with the game.
B) It uses real music. Any MIDI file, (thousands and thousands online, 1000 years of music literature) can be plugged into the game and learned.
C) Because you will learn real music on a real instrument, you may even get a real girlfriend, as opposed to posing as a musician with Guitar Hero.
D) The game has extensive help for you to explore to reveal these simple facts and their implications. Because I am visual, so are most of the help resources. There is a set up poster, a set up video, Flash demo movies of every feature (hours and hours of it), in game Help in graphical format, online videos, online FAQs, an automatic reply within the game to email tech support that reads your operating system so that you don't need to tell us what video driver you have, our tech can help you without you knowing much about your own computer, online live chat with tech support, email tech support, live phone tech support, and a game that will work on most Windows and Macs dating from 98SE. None of which seems to have been looked at by the reviewer above.
E) There is a full "music teaching system in a box" version of the software called Piano Wizard Academy, that includes 50 video lessons, the sheet music, a 100 song piano curriculum called Easy Mode (included in your Premier version) that has spectacular results, including an amazing story of a profoundly retarded 8 year old boy who has gone through almost 70 songs, that is reviewed right here on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Premier-Silver-M-Audio-Keyboard/product-reviews/B001ARGZEC). This boy's mother however found all this value in the same version "reviewed" above, just by reading the instructions.
Finally, my challenge to anyone wanting to do their do diligence on this product is to type in "Piano Wizard" or "Piano Wizard Academy" into any search engine and look at the reviews and customer testimonials and videos ([...]) and make your own educated decision. We also offer a 30 day unconditional guarantee at our website. With our Academy, we guarantee that you will learn at least 5 songs in 5 days or your money back if you follow our system. We have had kids learn as many as 20 songs in that time.
Having something as amazing and authentic as this, and having to look at a post like the one above, is very disheartening, and I could not let it pass unanswered.
There is a another review above complaining about the interface, what they are objecting to is the screen resolution. We are working on an update that will resolve that soon, possibly by summer, but it is not a problem for gameplay or children, it is more an aesthetic issue with all the high resolution screens available now.
So, I am not even sure this kind of response from the company is allowed on Amazon, but I felt that to be fair a response was needed. My suggestion to all of you is to do more due diligence before you buy, and make as educated a decision as possible with all the facts.
Thanks
Chris Salter
CEO and Founder
Music Wizard
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