Designed specifically for music teacher trainees, these woodwind fingering programs are both instructionally effective and fun to use. They were developed by David Sebald at the Institute for Music Research, University of Texas at San Antonio to provide supplmentary training in woodwind pedagogy courses. Students choose between a relaxed practice mode suitable for beginners and an arcade style timed mode suitable for experinece users who want to push skill development ot the limit. Students set both the number of items they want to work with and the difficulty level for an session.
Difficulty levels range from beginner to professional.
Improvement Records and Statistics. Data for every completed session is recorded and is accessible through the program's interface or any external database utility. Each program generates and displays statistics on the number of sessions, the mean score of all sessions, the highest score achieved so far, and the current player's highest score. Other data available include player ID, session time and date, level of play, number of items completed, and an adjusted score based on the actual score and the difficulty level attempted. Students can easily access interactive assistance screens that will display every normal fingering for any selected note in each register of the instrument.