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Karaoke downloads are a great way to get backing tracks for your favorite songs. However, you should be careful while downloading karaoke music. Some tracks will be midi files that come with lyrics attached. The midi files are generally free but are mostly illegal, and there is disparity in how they sound. Also, these files will sound better if the sound card is properly configured with good sound fonts. So, it is advisable to download mp3 songs. The following are the most common and best karaoke downloads.

• AV DVD Player - Morpher 1.0.56 can convert DVD video and audio and can edit subtitles for movie, record audio, capture images and copy or delete VCD.

• Busker 3.0 can copy a song by dragging chords, symbols and notes and make an exact replica of the songbook. You can choose any instrument or genre and play.

•MagicScore School 4.0 is a specific notation software that can be of great use to music enthusiasts, teachers, students, schools, etc. This program gives the music aficionado a plethora of options, including editing, printing, input, etc.

•Intelliscore Polyphonic MP3 to Ringtone Converter 6.3 IntelliScore can convert MP3 to MIDI, WAV to MIDI and CD to MIDI for live performance. It can make MIDI files, transcribe music and get chord names from polyphonic MP3 and WAVE files.

•Lyrics4You 1.3 is special entertainment software. It can play as well as display karaoke lyrics with audio file formats like MP3, OGG, MIDI, WAV, KAR etc. It is a simple way to record. Lyrics4You 1.3 can also play back voice over the song.

• Karaoke Jockey 2.10s folksKJ is a MIDI Karaoke player with special features like automatic melody detection for MIDI and KAR files, customized photo albums and display of digital photos.

•Karaoke-to-Text-with-Chords 2.2 can take out lyrics from karaoke files and verify chords for MIDI and Karaoke songs.

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What is it that a beginner at the piano wants to do? They want to make music! It might be classical, jazz, or something else, but one thing’s for sure; they don’t want to spend months studying boring theory.

What if instead of studying note reading, beginners piano lessons were focused on the student actually learning how to create music? Just imagine the excitement when the notes and chords played are all original and express what is actually being felt.

I don’t know why piano teachers start their students off on note reading. It’s boring, unnecessary for most students, and really doesn’t help the student create anything at all. In fact, you could say that by learning to note read, students are speaking the language of music without really understanding the underlying grammar and syntax - which has everything to do with chords!

Chords are where the excitement lies. And when the beginning piano student starts to play chords on the piano, it naturally leads to music making.

Beginning guitar players don’t have the same problems as newbie piano players. They expect to be able to create something that sounds like music immediately. This isn’t to say that learning the guitar or any instrument does not require serious study. It is to say that one need not spend thousands of hours learning note reading while the world of music is only a few chords a way.

Beginners piano lessons should be exciting! They should inspire students to want to study the art of music further. And they should be easy enough where the beginning student is not easily discouraged.

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Stop by now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!