The Piano Lab

Group Learning + Technology
Playing the piano should be fun and exciting while inspiring creativity through artistic expression. Over the past 37 years, we have cultivated a curriculum and learning environment that does just that. Through the combination of state of the art technology and group learning, students excel in rhythm development, musicality, theory and performance all while having fun! Offering five Roland Digital Pianos plus the Roland MT Take Home Lab for all of our group piano ensemble students, a unique, fun and educational learning experience is waiting for you! Take a look at some of the features our Piano Lab has to offer:
The Groups
  • Teaching method currently utilized at The University of Texas and other major universities
  • Established based on age and skill level
  • Develops better rhythm understanding
  • Improves music reading continuity
  • Peer relationships encourage long term commitment and success
The Pianos
RM700 – The GRAND teaching piano
  • Media player for orchestrated accompaniment tracks – software correlates with method books providing a steady beat for directing the class at any tempo selected
  • Over 800 piano sounds and 370 onboard music styles
  • Piano Designer and Grand Piano II create perfect tone and response
  • Ivory feel keyboard for a Grand Piano touch
  • Color Touchscreen LCD at the center of the piano allows easy navigation through various functions
  • External video output for connecting additional monitor or Television allows the class to view music together on a larger screen with the Digiscore feature
  • Powerful educational environment Roland’s acclaimed Visual Lesson and Digiscore provide different levels of difficulty with 190 songs built in to its library
Four HPi6s – The ULTIMATE Student Piano – features include:
  • The Music Tutor Interactive Learning Piano
  • DigiScore built right into the music rest to view music, lyric, and fingering display
  • Grades students on their practice & performance
  • Expandable via downloadable MIDI music files or books with Midi files
  • Sounds like a Grand Piano
  • 88 touch sensitive keys
  • Weighted hammer action
  • Twin Piano mode/game allows piano to split to different tones
  • Wonderland Educational Music Games – flash cards, note drills, chord drills
The Take Home Lab
Practice is the foundation to the development of any skill. The Roland MT Take Home Lab is included as a take home practice partner for our group piano students to continue their learning fun at home. It is important that our students are equipped for success by providing them with a quality instrument at lessons and at home. This is why all of the pianos at Dolce Music Studio are state of the art Roland digital pianos. We encourage all of our piano students to practice on an acoustic or high quality digital piano in addition to having the Roland MT Take Home Lab.
The Roland Music Tutor Interactive – MT90U
  • Provided to students enrolled in weekly group lessons
  • Everyday practice partner
  • Enables faster progress by helping to eliminate rhythm and note errors
  • Enhances the musicality of a beginning student
  • Tempo adjustable for needed practice technique
  • Solo or mute any part for additional practice methods