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A MIDI Music Overview:

Learn how to reach inside music, in the midi format using Cakewalk's Music Creator, to make changes and create your own musical arrangements. See the individual instruments and their notes as they play your favorite music.

Download your favorite music from the Internet in midi format.

Change, delete or add your favorite instruments (over 126 different instruments) to your composition.

Change or add musical notes, or change the duration of musical notes to transform the mood of your music.

Change the volume of instruments and notes to create a more pleasing sound as you listen to your song.

Record your musical arrangement to a CD for your personal enjoyment while listening at home or traveling in your car.

Print instrument sheet music or sometimes even the lyrics, of your favorite songs.

This class will not teach you how to write music. But, you will learn to make changes to existing music that is satisfying to your ears. Remember, like art, it's in the eyes of the holder. Not everyone likes today's instruments. The melody may be beautiful but the choice of instruments someone used can destroy the song.