PianoMarvel

Posted: May 20th, 2009 | Author: Andrew Branch | Filed under: Music, The Office, Web Development | Tags: children's piano games, how to play the piano, online piano lessons, piano lesson software, piano lessons | No Comments »

At Rain (the company I work for) we just helped develop some pretty exciting new software for learning piano for a client of ours: PianoMarvel. It’s a subscription based software solution that allows you to learn with your MIDI keyboard and a computer at your own pace. The brilliance of it is that it makes practice time more goal-oriented, requiring certain scores to move on to the next lesson. This makes practice time fun with the user trying again and again to improve their score. It also is great for parents and teachers who need to track student’s practice time, emailing them reports of hours logged.

Checkout the video for more info or sign up here.

Don’t Forget…

Posted: April 21st, 2009 | Author: Andrew Branch | Filed under: A Song A Week, Music | 6 Comments »

Just a silly song that I wrote to my son because I was bored and which won’t make any sense unless you happen to be a programmer that works at Rain.

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Porkins: A Tribute

Posted: March 3rd, 2009 | Author: Andrew Branch | Filed under: A Song A Week, Music | Tags: battle of yavin, porkins | 4 Comments »

Some friends introduced me to the these classic video tributes to Porkins here and here. His nobility brought me to tears and inspired this song – a tribute to his sacrifice in the Battle of Yavin.

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