Note Stretching

Once enabled, this will allow the software to stretch the notes out. This is helpful in more difficult songs where many notes are played together quickly. Enabling this option will help spread out the notes enabling the student to learn the song easier. You can use the slider to provide up to 8x note stretching. NOTE: Game objects will APPEAR to be moving faster even though you do not slow down the Tempo, this is because twice, thrice or four times as much space must scroll by in the same amount of time.

Here is an arrangement of Beethoven’s famous opening passage of Fur Elise without note stretching enabled.

We go to Options and both click on the Note Stretching check box and slide the bar to 410%

The same opening passage with Note Stretching.

In actual game-play though these notes will now appear to be moving 4 times as fast, though the Tempo has not changed. Think of the whole canvas as being stretched but having to pass the same number of beats or notes in the same tempo as before, so they appear to be moving faster, but in actual playing, they are identical. This allows you to use even very slow tempos to learn and still have game objects moving at reasonable paces. It also allows you to have fewer notes on the screen at one time so children do not get overwhelmed and confused. Our recommendation is to experiment with this feature with one hand on the Tempo adjustment of left and right arrow on the computer keyboard so you can find the optimum mix of Note Stretching and Tempo for better learning and gameplay.

Note Stretching is great to use to practice and perfect difficult passages, especially combined with Song Phrase Looping and Fingering, but may distort songs and game play at normal tempo if stretched too much.

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