3D Java Performer’s Practice Tools
One of the most exciting
features of 3D Java Interactive and 3D Java Professional
is the downloadable Performer’s Practice Tools for
performers (or students). The Performer’s Practice
Tools is a suite of tools used at home by a performer for
viewing, practicing, and printing their drills. Your
performers pick up the drills at home effortlessly! No
personal email account, no downloading of email
attachments, no handling of data files. Everything is
done automatically within the Performer’s Practice
Tools. In minutes the most current copy of a drill is
loaded directly into the program on the performer’s
computer, ready to use. The suite of tools include: The
Drill Explorer, The 3D Performance Simulator, The Drill
Book printout, The Coordinate List printout, and The
Thumbnail Charts printout.
“The marching pad is
a really helpful tool. It helps you with pulse, direction
changes, and memorization. Pyware gives marching band
students many advantages other than the drill. Being able
to watch the drill with your spot highlighted helps you
to learn, and if you lose your coordinates, being able to
print off another set is a great advantage.” -
Geneseo Band Student
The
Drill Explorer
The Drill Explorer displays and
animates a drill to music. The performer’s place in
the drill is brightly spot lit continuously as their
position moves from set to set. For a very accurate
analysis of a performer’s placement and movement in
the drill, the performer can zoom closer to their place.
The zoomed display automatically pans the field to keep
the performer’s place in view as the drill animates.
The performer’s stride is continuously displayed.
Animation controls make the performance loop animation
between sets, as well as start, stop, and backup at any
count of drill.
"Being able to view the
animated drill at home helped make the drill and music
more personal. I felt like it was my show." - Geneseo
Band Student
Personalized
Coordinate Printout
Prints a list of the
performer’s coordinates at each set in a drill.
Coordinates can be printed in a variety of sizes; from
full page, to small enough to fit in a wallet. With 3D
Production, coordinates for an entire production
(multiple drills) can be printed in a single list. The
list includes the performer’s location at each set
with a resolution up to an eighth step. Also shown are
set counts and number of counts from the previous set.
The Director or Drill Designer no longer has to print
hundreds of pages of Coordinate sheets. Now performers
can print their own personal Coordinate sheets at
home.
"The simulator made our
sets more accurate and helped us to visualize the sets on
the field. It was also very advantageous to be able to
print our own coordinates quickly." - Geneseo Band
Student
Personalized
Printed Drill Book
Prints a powerful personalized
drill book containing an overhead printout of each set
printed from the performer’s perspective. On the
same page, a chart zoomed near the performer’s area
of the field is printed with the performer’s path
showing from the previous set and to the next set. At the
bottom of each page the coordinates of the previous set,
current set, and next set are printed. The printed pages
can be folded in half and stapled to make a handy
5.5” by 8.5” drill book for use on the field
during rehearsals.
Personalized
Thumbnail Printouts
Prints a report consisting of
multiple sets per page of a drill. The charts are
personalized with the performers place highlighted. Use
for quick reference during rehearsals.
3D
Performance Simulator
The patent pending 3D
Performance Simulator simulates the drill centering on
the performer’s place in the drill. Interactive
marching truly comes to life. As a drill is performed,
the performer (student) marches their individual part and
the performer is scored according to the accuracy of
their step, synchronization, and directional changes.
Performers march their part using the numeric keypad or
the (Optional) Pyware March Pad. With the Pyware March
Pad, performers execute their performance using the step
off method adopted by many High School Bands and Drum
Corps. Top score is 1000 points. The performer’s
scores are transmitted online to the drill’s
Simulator Leader Board. Performers compete daily to get
to the top of the leader board. They are practicing
without even realizing it!
“This year I
assigned one of our three songs each week to be marched
on the simulator for the highest score possible. Then the
students would upload their scores to the leader board.
During that week they were allowed to march the song as
many times as they wanted to try to improve their score.
You wouldn’t believe how much they got into it. Some
of them were enthusiastic because they wanted to improve
their score, or get the highest score. Some of them kept
at it because it was helping them improve the execution
of their drill on the field. Some felt that it helped
them stay in step better. We even had two kids who
started out as alternates and wound up with full
positions for the last competition. They used the
simulator to practice their marching repeatedly outside
of rehearsal. We even put the music over a loud speaker
and they marched on the pad while playing their
instruments and performing the horn moves.”
-
Steve Scherer, Geneseo High
School, Fine Arts Department Chair, Director of
Bands
Print
Leader Board
Prints
a certificate for top performers on the
Leader Board. Certificates are used by the
director for recognition of a
performer’s accomplishments.
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Performer’s
iPAS
Performer’s Practice Tools
also contains all of the features of iPAS Student
Edition. With a musical instrument and a microphone, a
performer (or student) can practice scale studies and
warm-ups. Students rhythmic and pitch accuracy are
recorded and assessed for a grade, then can be sent back
to the director and/or teacher. iPAS shows fingerings and
has hands free automatic reference pitch. Tuner note name
is in the key of the instrument played with CD quality
playback. The director (teacher) can use the iPAS Teacher
Manager (purchased separately) to create their own
lessons that are downloaded into the Performer’s
Practice Tools for practice and grading. Grades and
performances can be sent back to the iPAS Teacher Manager
seamlessly through a free iPAS Online Account.
“The other thing we
added this year was the ability for the kids to install
the iPAS program at home and download the drill to watch
on their own computer. I synchronized the music with the
drill files and identified all of the students on the
cast list. Not only were they able to watch the animated
drill at their convenience, but they could print out
their own personal coordinate sheets whenever needed. We
had a coordinate check at the beginning of each
rehearsal, and no one was ever on the rehearsal field
without their coordinates. It helped make our rehearsals
much more productive and consistent.” - Steve
Scherer
Performer’s Practice
Tools are downloadable from www.pyware.com and operate
for 1 year from date of purchase.
Individual Purchase
Online with Credit Card - $7.95 each
Unlimited Installations for
Schools and Groups (per year) - $300.00
3D
Java Director’s Viewer
The Director’s Viewer is
designed specifically for Director and Drill
Designer’s clients. Directors and clients can use
the Director’s Viewer to seamlessly get drills
online from 3D Java Interactive and 3D Java Professional
users. With the Director’s Viewer, directors can
download and view commissioned drills from their Drill
Designer, purchase commercially available drills, or get
ideas from other Directors and Designers. The
Director’s Viewer uses the 3D Java interface to
animate. It can also print coordinates and thumbnail
charts.
The Director’s
Viewer is downloaded from www.pyware.com for $49.95.
Included with the Director’s Viewer is a FREE
activation of the Performer’s Practice Tools. Also,
the $49.95 can be deducted from the purchase of a full
version of the 3D Java program. The Director’s
Viewer will operate for 1 full year.
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