Crutch For Amateur Vocalist, Hardware and software to learn music Options

[fleason]

I've got an iMac with a Gig of memory, USB, Firewire, etc. I sing in a Church choir and need help learning my part. My piano skills are worse than my sight reading skills. Yet, I need to learn and rehearse Mozart, Bach, etc.

I was hoping to find some software and hardware (keyboard) that I can either enter the score (via an editor) or play the score and adjjust tempo. Once this is entered, I need to sing the words over and over. Eventually it would be nice to add the accompanimnet. In a perfect world, it would be great if I can download the music, but entering the score is fine and being able to scan the score would be great.

I've seen some stand-alone keyboards with a little lcd display that almost solves the problem. (Display staff and notes) But I still need help getting rythm correct.

Any suggestions?

[angryman]

If you have an iMac, it's more than likely that you got a program called Sound Studio with the operating system (depending on when you bought your mac)

Sound Studio allows you to import sound files and increase/decrease the pitch by resampling (like slowing down a record or tape)

Also, there are lots of free and easy to use music programs that allow you to import Midi files and slow the tempo as you wish.

Hope this helps