Below is a list of commonly used IPS buttons and their actions.
Activity Menu
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The Activity Menu button will open a list of resource’s for the book you are viewing. These include a media list (which contains all audio and video files for the book), a glossary, flash cards, and a link to launch the IPS Help page.
Back
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Tap this button to return to the previous screen.
Connections
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Connections will launch fun facts, photos, illustrations, maps and more. Keep an eye out for Connections, and be sure to tap the star to learn a little about the lesson.
Delete Recording
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Tap the trash icon to delete a recording you no longer wish to keep saved.
Tap the email icon to “email your annotation” or email your recording.
Flash Cards
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Flash Cards are a set of cards with musical terms and definitions found throughout your book. Many of these terms and definitions are from the book’s Glossary.
Glossary
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The Glossary contains a list of musical terms and symbols used throughout the book.
Help
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Help will get you here! Tap the help button to view the IPS App Help page.
Kjos Store
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The store button will open a catalog of Kjos books you may purchase for the Interactive Practice Studio.
Kjos Home
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Tap the Kjos Home button to visit the Kjos website. The Kjos website will open in your browser.
Log Out
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Log out will sign you out of the Interactive Practice Studio. Once logged out, you will need to log in again to view any saved work.
Loop
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Loop will play the audio again once the audio has finished, and will continue to play until you tell it to stop. You can disable loop by tapping the Loop button.
Media List
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The Media List contains all video and audio for the selected book. You can play any audio or video by selecting it from the Media List.
Main Menu
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The Main Menu button contains the main menu for the Interactive Practice Studio. From here, you can view your book list and recordings, change settings for IPS, visit the Kjos website, visit the Help page, and log out of IPS.
My Recordings
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Access your saved recordings for playback and sharing.
My Settings
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In My Settings you will find options for editing your name, display language, and clearing your device’s cache.
PDF
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Tap to launch a PDF file, such as a quiz.
Personal Studio
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Create recordings of yourself playing that you can save and email to friends, family, and your teacher.
Practice Tracks
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Tap to hear each line of music in your book performed. Most tracks will include two mixes. On the first mix, you’ll hear the student part with the accompaniment. On the second mix of each track, you’ll hear the accompaniment only. Playing along with this mix allows you to perform as a true soloist!
Playback Speed
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Playback has 3 speed settings: normal, slower, and slowest. Tap the playback speed button to slow down the tempo.
Save Recording
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Once you have recorded yourself playing, you can tap Save Recording button to save your recording.
Student Part
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The Student Part button enables the student’s part to be played during audio playback. When Student Part is disabled, playback will only play the accompaniment.
Video Lessons
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Tap to watch various lessons covering topics such as playing tips and instrument maintenance.
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Pyware Customer Support wrote: Aug 22, 2017
Lindsay,
Which Bastien New Traditions book are you not seeing on the store?
Lindsay wrote: Aug 21, 2017
The book I purchased, Bastien New Traditions, is not even listed in "Get Products." I followed the directions and am supposed to have access.
Pyware Customer Support wrote: Mar 8, 2017
Tina,
To record a lesson you would click on the Microphone icon and then you will be able to record your lesson.
Internet is required to access the book content, pages, audio, video and extras. You can download the book information to be used when you do not have internet. To do so, choose the manage storage option in the menu button at the bottom of the screen when you are in your book. This will allow you to choose what content you would like to download to be used when you do not have an internet connection.
If you purchased the Media Only or used your code for the Free Media Only, then you will only have access to the audio, video and extras content. If you would like to see the pages for the book you would need to purchase and download the digital book.
At this point there is not an option to add notes to the page. I have submitted your request to our development team.
Tina wrote: Mar 7, 2017
You can't even record. No internet access, you should be at least able to write on the pages. There isn't any pages. I purchased one and I expected it to have pages because I would of used this app when I didn't have my book. This app is kinda useless in my opinion. Please fix this.
Pyware Customer Support wrote: Aug 31, 2016
Stuart,
Thank you for addressing your concerns and your feedback with our app. I'm passing this one on to our developers and copying Kjos in the correspondence; you should hear from us via email shortly as I believe our developers need a bit of information about your current set up.
Pyware Customer Support wrote: Aug 31, 2016
Susan,
Thanks for the feedback! We'll forward your concerns to the book publisher, Kjos Music, for adjusting the content.
Stuart Holmes wrote: Aug 30, 2016
I need to be able to download entire directors book for off line use at concerts where I don't have Internet access. The pages are alsomextremelynslow to turn. Honestly it would be far more useful to have the directors book as a complete PDFs file with active links to use in a music reader app like forScore. I expected the same quality from a company like Kjos and Pyware thatbInhad from a little startup like forScore. My experience with this app and these electronic versions of the directors scores is extremely disappointing. I feel like the end use of the application was not well thought out. As another example of problems with the app, there is no way for me to select a class compliment audio interface for recording input and output as a real professional application should support and I have to use the headphone jack rather than a good quality interface. I'd hoped for much more and now feel I've wasted a lot of money. (But have commit3d my whole band program to this series. Please address these issues!)
Susan Bagot wrote: Aug 26, 2016
I just purchased the digital edition of the Bastien New Traditions Primer A. When I use the PDF link for worksheet pages, the answers are already given in the PDF. I'd prefer a page that allows students to do the work.