You may have come across the Miracle Piano cart once or twice, but the actual piano accessory is a much harder find. A $479.95 USD price tag was slapped on the complete bundle when it first shipped. Right now, a complete (or close) averages about $150+. Copied below is a detailed description which was sent to me by a person whom noted the writing as apart of a seller's auction.

Each "chapter" of the Miracle Piano Teaching System is devoted to teaching a specific piece of music and all that is entailed with learning that specific piece of music. The program starts from the premise that the student using this system has never had any previous music lessons. Note reading is introduced and solidified with the use of an arcade game, the Shooting Gallery, where the student plays the correct notes on the keyboard, causing the ducks in the shooting gallery to get shot. A missed note causes a splat on the screen and the corresponding sound.

This system teaches chord symbols using terms as C, G7, f, etc. However the concepts of keeping the common tone and moving to the nearest chord position for the next chord were emphasized. To help with fast recognition of the chords, the Miracle uses another arcade game called RipChord. A helicopter appears on the monitor, and a chord also appears on the monitor, the student is to correctly play the notes of the chord quickly and accurately on the MIDI keyboard. Correct playing of the chord will make the parachuters land safely on earth; play incorrectly and the parachuters hit the ground with an "ouch". As the chapters get more involved in different chords, the game gets longer and more involved.

The Miracle Piano Teaching System is particularly strong at teaching sight reading. When teaching a specific piece of music, it has the student follow the notes rather than their fingers by utilizing a rectangular box around the notes that the students are to be reading, and the sight reading skills that it attempts to develop in students through this feature are great. It makes the student always look one ahead of where their fingers are.

You will also like the early use of the metronome, introduced in the second chapter and used all the time thereafter. The program will call the students to task if they are playing through rests, or not following the metronome carefully.

After the student has spent a lot of time practicing the particular composition, the student then goes to the Performance Hall where a computer orchestra accompanies the student. This gets students used to playing their part while having to deal with listening to the orchestra do its thing at the same time. It's a great introduction to ensemble playing. We loved the idea, emphasized by the Miracle, of PRACTICE being THE means of getting a piece of music ready to perform.

The Miracle Piano Teaching System is really neat. It communicates via MIDI to the instruction keyboard. It begins with middle C and works up into complicated themes throughout 40 lessons. It teaches the student a song phrase by phrase, displaying the sheet music on the screen. It watches what notes you play, how soft or hard you hit the notes, where you make mistakes, when you release the keys, and then it tailors the response. This is a package for The Nintendo Entertainment System.. It's a really neat way to learn to play the piano. There are fingering exercises disguised as arcade games. There are extra songs to learn on your own in between the lessons. What's included:

Miracle Piano Keyboard, Miracle Keyboard Overlay, Miracle Keyboard Power Supply, Serial Cable (for connection to your NES), Miracle User Manual, Miracle Piano Learning System Software Cartridge, Miracle Foot Pad Controller