Why I buy this one ?
- Piano Suite is your best option for learning to play piano no matter what your age
- With a full compliment of customizable and expandable tools Piano Suite will guide you into the rewarding world of making your own music
- Piano Player will help you through the learning process with the help of an interactive voice tutor and provide continuous feedback on your play until you master the piece
- Personal and musical biographies of over 150 composers and performers will enrich your learning experience
- Challenging interactive games sharpen your piano playing skills and develop theory comprehension

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What our customer's say!

"Excellent Full-Featured Piano Software for All Ages", This program accepts any size MIDI keyboard, up to a full-size 88-key one. The installation program automatically downloads any available updates from the Internet, so you should have no problem getting it installed. The requirements say Windows 95 to XP, but I have Vista 64-bit and it runs fine. Piano Suite starts off slow, has you play a song, then recommends other songs to play, based on your current skill level and/or what you need to work on. You will learn how to play many popular songs, including ones by The Beatles, Elvis, and Frank Sinatra. Many songs have multiple skill levels, so you can start playing the song at say Level 3, then work your way up to Level 5 (which has more notes and is harder to play). In my opinion, the best feature is the "MIDI Song Input", where you can download a MIDI file from the Internet or elsewhere and learn how to play it in the program. Piano Suite Premiere includes 500 songs. This program is also very customizable -- you can adjust the size of the music notes, the speed of the metronome, practice a song with left hand only, right hand only, or both hands, and select any song you want to play within the song list. You start off with the "Theory Thinker," which gradually teaches you how to play the piano with harder and harder components (triplets, arpeggios, different time signatures, etc). The program even remembers where you left off, so all you have to do is click a button to continue. Last, but not least, the program also includes games to help you become a better piano player, biographies of composers, progress reports for multiple users, and the ability to record your own songs from your MIDI keyboard.

"Very happy and learning fast!", This software is excellent. The feature that really got me interested is the ability to load MIDI files from the internet into the program and then be able to actually see the score and play it with the features of this program (ability to slow tempo, mark parts of the score for practice, show right hand only, left hand only, both, evaluate your errors).

You can play along with the song and use a metronome , I find it very helpful. The lessons that come with the software are fingered, the ones you load from the internet won't show any fingering.
Every song-lesson comes set up (when you play it, to hear the song before you start to practice) with different instruments, but you can change this settings. You have 3 note sizes, great.

Every time you use this program you have to use the keyboard tunning tool, I guess it's a downer, but takes 1 minute. Don't forget to set your monitor at a low resolution. If you don't do this, the program will show up in a small window.

The classical library is pretty good for the begginer and I would say the intermediate. It includes contemporary music too (rock).

The lessons are very simple , to the point, you can practice as much as you want. The games are fine too, there are staff lessons which I find more helpful than the games, like "find this note and put it on the staff" where you use the computer mouse to do so, not the keyboard, even though you don't use the piano it's good practice, I'm doing much better reading music now thanks to this.

I had no problems at all with installation, I use my laptop Dell, I read all the manual and everything went smooth. I would highly recommend to follow-instructions. I don't know why other people had some problems. My midi connection is Edirol UM-1EX, I already had it installed and used it with another piano software. I am very happy with this, having used other options I am really glad I bought this one!!

"A good way to learn", This software does pretty much what it claims. It's neither clearly better nor clearly worse than the alternatives. Here are some specific notes which might be helpful to you:

* It's trapped in an un-resizeable DOS window. To get full-screen, you have to alter your monitor settings.

* You can use your QWERTY keyboard to play notes, but you have to reactivate a special window everytime you click elsewhere. Therefor, this feature is useful only for testing the software w/o a MIDI keyboard connected.

* There are about a dozen MIDI songs which you can upload to your MIDI keyboard (if your keyboard allows this). The rest of the songs are integrated into the program -- ie, not copyable.

* Contrary to the advertising, there are no REM songs. There is "Superman", which REM covered but did not write. (Good song though.)

* If you press "next" too early, you do not get credit for having viewed a lesson. This is good for a classroom, but annoying to me.

* I have gotten weird errors from the Music Recorder, but I didn't buy it for that anyway.


I bought Piano Suite 1 & 2, which is much cheaper. It contains only 80 songs and lacks the Composer (which also prints sheet music). For me it is a much better value than the Premier edition. It has all the lessons, the games, and the same basic player.

"Piano Suite Premier", Have a bug inside the program ver. 2.6!!!
eg. 1) can't locate existing library's files
2) In composer's corner, can't delete the song from public library.
But still a very good program for piano beginner.
I will wait & see the improvement in next patch.


"Really teaches you piano, but with some quirks", I had taken piano lessons for a while but found the expense and getting to the lessons a problem. Having a MIDI capable electronic keyboard and a PC, I figured this software might be a good investment. I'm happy to say that this program does just what I wanted it to do; I've learned to play better and am improving all the time.

Here's what the program does for me.

First, it can play the music so that I know what it should sound like when correctly played. Then, I can go through a piece of music a note at a time with the program telling me visually if I have hit the right key. I get a feel for finger placement. Then, using a metronome (with a counting voice or a tone) at a pace I set, it monitors my timing and shows me exactly where I held a note too long, or not long enough. The program does exactly what a good teacher would do by requiring you to play the right notes with just the right timing. You can isolate a part of the piece you are having trouble with and concentrate just on that bar or bars. You can print out the score. Mistakes are flagged and you see, by way of red notes, where you went wrong and in what way you erred. You will watch as your accuracy climbs until you have the piece mastered.

That's all good! The problems are with setup and saving settings. No two screens look alike. You wander through all kinds of icons, buttons and color schemes that have no uniformity. What is that red light up there by the picture of a piano? Hey, it's a button I can press! The graphics design folks went wild and that confuses the user. Fortunately, for practice sessions you simply have the score displayed on a white screen with a minimum of clutter.

When installing, obey the request that NO OTHER PROGRAMS BE OPEN. I found that unless I install this program with NO other programs running and then immediately install the version 2.66 patch (available from Adventus online) I would get unpredictable, annoying errors right in the middle of practice. A window would pop up telling me an error had been encountered and the program would crash.

The program settings can be confusing, are not all on one screen and are not saved! You may take a while to figure out why you don't hear something when you should, or you do hear something you don't want to hear. You will eventually get it right and then discover when next you run the program that nothing has been saved. So, though you have set volume levels, muted instruments, set the metronome speed, etc, before, you have to set them all again. Talk about frustrating! All that is remembered is the piece you were playing in your last session and the record of how you performed. You should be practicing music, not continually telling the program that you want the same environment you had the last time you played. This is such a basic requirement for ANY computer program that I'm amazed Piano Suite got through quality control the way it is. I've been expecting and hoping for a version 3 to appear that will be ready for prime time but version 2.6 stays with us.

So, I lead a loud cheer for the pedogogical part of this program, I don't know how it could be improved. People with knowledge and experience of music were undoubtedly involved and I am living proof that Piano Suite Premier teaches piano well. But the software programmers, please, would a SAVE SETTINGS, and a single graphics-free page to make the settings, be so hard to provide?