Song Options
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Song Options
Simple
'Watch and listen only' will take you directly to the keyboard screen where you can just listen or play along unmonitored.
Selecting Play Left, Right or Both hands takes you to the practice options page, see below
Switch to Advance, see below
Check the box if you want to display notation on the top of the playing screen.
Advanced
This screen lets you can decide how the tracks in the MIDI file are to be handled. Often each hand will be assigned to a channel and you can chose to play one of the hands and let Synthesia play the other one. In more elaborate MIDI files there may be a number of "backing" tracks that Synthesia can play to accompany you on the keyboard.
In multitrack midi's you can use the copy and paste icons to quickly set common settings, use the lightning bolt to rest settings to the default.
Practice Options
This time it will be up to you to play the selected track by pressing the appropriate key on your MIDI keyboard just before the falling note bars hit the keys. our goal is to play the right key, at the right time, for the full duration indicated by the note bar. When the song is done, Synthesia will display a score screen that reports on how accurately you played the song and provide a record of your progress.
Click scores to see your history for this song.
Click on the username to change your profile.
