Micro Maestro brings music alive - makes practice a pleasure and performances real!

Use your musical instrument and your micro-computer to play top hits with full studio accompaniment! Ghostbusters, Happy Xmas (War Is Over), Chariots Of Fire, Superman, Dress You Up and Hello can be played on your trumpet, cornet, clarinet, trombone, tenor sax, euphonium, flugal horn, bariton horn, Bb bass, French horn, Eb horn, Eb bass, Alto sax and Baritone sax!

The Program

• Displays the music scores on screen
• Scrolls the music
• Plays the music simultaneously
• Gives a continuous guide to the rhythm
• Changes the tempo
• Selects the bars of the music
• Repeats selected bars

The full professional studio accopaniments on the audio-cassette - now you are the lead player!

This pack contains a booklet with full operating instructions and practical advice from experienced musicians

Note: Parts transposed for Eb horn, French horn, Alto sax, Baritone sax.

We know you can't wait to try the Micro Maestro program on your micro ... but before you start, a few words to help you get the best from Micro Maestro. As a keen young musician, you'll already be aware of the advantages that Micro Maestro can offer you - it will make practising your instrument a pleasure, and will lead to the opportunity to perform up-to-date material to exciting backing tracks.

Micro Maestro has been designed to put the fun back into music. As experienced musicians ourselves, we know how it feels to practise in the old-fashioned way, alone in your room with nothing but a music-stand and silent sheet music for company. We don't claim that Micro Maestro contains any magic formula - if you're learning a musical instrument, it won't make you a virtuoso overnight, because there's no substitute for practising.

That's why we've made the program as flexible and instructive as possible. With its unique ability to 'scroll' the music onto the screen of your micro, together with the wide range of practice aids it offers, you'll discover that practising your instrument will be transformed into an exciting and rewarding experience - and your technique will quickly improve too.

But practising and perfecting your instrumental skill is pointless unless you can perform - which is why we provide you with a separate audio cassette containing exclusive professionally-recorded backing tracks of the tunes you've been practising. Now you become the soloist in a realistic and exciting performance. Micro Maestro brings music alive for you, and helps you to become the skilled musician you want to be.

Before using Micro Maestro, we recommend that you read the operating instructions carefuly - only then will you be confident that you are using all the facilities that it offers.

We hope that Micro Maestro will give you hours of entertainment, and help you to fulfil your musical ambitions.

On side one of the program cassette, you'll find the operating system followed by the data for Ghostbusters, Happy Xmas (War Is Over) and Chariots Of Fire.

On side two of the program cassette, you'll find the operating system followed by the data for Superman, Dress You Up and Hello.

Select Version
Your computer has already automatically loaded the version of the first song. To obtain the appropriate version for the and clef instruments:

Select first song, and then select version. The songs for each clef are grouped together, so we have provided this easy-to-follow reference code:

You will find it useful to use the tape position counter on your cassette player to make a note of the position of the clefs on the program cassette.

Now you are ready to familiarise yourself with the way Micro Maestro works, and we suggest that you start by looking at the music.

Press 3 to "View Music". You are now seeing Page One. Press the right arrow key to view forward through the song. You will notice that the bars of the music are numbered. Press BREAK to return to the menu.

Press 4 to "Play Music". To start/stop, press SPACE. Press BREAK to return to the menu.

Press 2 to obtain "Practice Aids". Press Y for Yes, N for No. The options appear in the following order:

Listening is an essential part of playing a musical instrument. The computer plays the melody line, and this will help you to learn the tunes. When you feel confident enough to play the music on your own, turn the volume off.

This provides you with a visual reference to the number of beats in a bar, and the relationship of the rhythm groupings to the beat of the bar.

The Bouncing Ball indicates precisely the notes to be played. In the early stages you will find this very helpful - no danger of losing your place. When you are familiar with the tunes you can turn the Bouncing Ball off.

When you are learning the tunes you can adjust the tempo - start off by playing slowly, and gradually build up to the correct tempo.

Press 5 to "Play Section". Type in the bar number/s you want.

You may have difficulty playing a particular bar or section of a tune - now you can pick out and practise those parts.

From the menu, press 1. The list of songs will appear. Choose your song and proceed as for "Select Version" above.

When you have learnt to play a song, you can become the lead player in a realistic and exciting performance. Insert the audio cassette in your cassette player - if you're using the same cassette player you used to load the program, make sure the headphone socket is disconnected. Again, you will find it useful to note the tape counter positions at the beginning of each performance.

There are two versions of each song: the first is a performance which includes the melody line, and the second leaves the melody line out so that you become the soloist.

If you wish to read the music from the screen while you perform, turn the volume off on the program, and return to "Performance Tempo" as displayed on the screen. To synchronise audio cassette and graphics, press SPACE as the music begins.