PG Music Inc.

PG Music Inc.

PG Music Inc. is a leading innovator of computer music software that is easy to use, powerful, and fun. The award winning Band-in-a-Box intelligent music accompaniment program is published in twelve languages and sold around the world. In addition to Band-in-a-Box, PG Music publishes over 30 music and multimedia titles for music production, education, and entertainment.

Company Details

Year Established: 1989

Total Sales ($CDN): $1,000,000 - $5,000,000

Number of Employees: 20

Company Information

Drew Shand
Title: Manager
Area of Responsibility: Domestic Sales & Marketing
Telephone: (250) 475-2874
Fax: (250) 475-2946
Email: Click Here

Mark Lemna
Title: Marketing Manager
Area of Responsibility: Export Sales & Marketing
Telephone: (250) 475-2874
Fax: (250) 475-2946

Products

Pg Music Games

The Master Solos Series
Each program in this series is a fully-featured interactive music program with dozens of professional arrangements featuring a solo played by a top studio musician accompanied by a session backup band. The user learns to solo like the top artists in each style by following the music on-screen as it plays at the speed they choose. The songs can be stopped, started, and repeated whenever and wherever the user wishes. Two file types are included, Standard MIDI files and Band-in-a-Box files for all songs. Master Jazz Guitar Solos The Master Jazz Guitar Solos program is a fully-featured interactive music program with professional Jazz quartet/quintet arrangements of 50 songs in Volume 1. Each song features a Jazz guitar solo played by a top studio musician, as well as accompanying piano (comping), bass, drums, and strings. There are almost 5 hours of Jazz guitar soloing in this program. Volumes 2 and 3 add more than 100 additional songs. Master Blues Piano Solos Master Blues Piano Solos Volume 1 includes 30 full tunes with Pop/Rock/Jazz Blues piano solos in the style of the great Blues pianists (Jelly Roll, DrJ, MontyA and more). What a great and fun way to learn Blues piano soloing. Blues piano is at the heart of most Popular and Jazz styles, so mastering Blues piano soloing gives you a great foundation for many styles of music. Includes comping examples along with easy, medium and difficult soloing styles. Let a master show you solos in the styles of the 'greats.' Master Flatpick Guitar Solos The Master Flatpick Guitar Solos program is a fully-featured interactive music program with professional Flatpick arrangements of 50 songs. Each song features a Flatpick guitar solo played by top studio musician Marty Cutler, as well as accompanying piano (comping), bass, drums, and strings. There are almost 3 hours of Flatpick guitar soloing in this program. Master Swingin Jazz Piano Solos and Comping Join Master Jazz Pianist Miles Black in this Band-in-a-Box add-on featuring 50 great Jazz piano improvisations over typical chord changes. With this Band-in-a-Box add-on, you can easily learn soloing and comping techniques for 'swingin'' Jazz piano. Songs include trio arrangements with bass and drums in Band-in-a-Box format.

Pianist Performance Series
These popular programs feature the piano styles of today in over 250 live-to-MIDI performances by top contemporary pianists. Each of the four titles in this series is packed with powerful tools for fun and learning, including song memos, biographies and an on-screen piano display. The Blues Pianist The Blues Pianist contains a huge library of original blues tunes that cover a wide variety of piano styles: Boogie Woogie, Slow/Fast Boogies, Jazz Blues, New Orleans style, Chicago Blues, and many more. These are the styles made famous by Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons, Jelly Roll Morton, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc. - hours of listening pleasure! The Latin Pianist The Latin Pianist is an exiting new addition to our Pianist series of music software programs. With over 50 tunes played on MIDI keyboard by top Latin Pianist Rebeca Maulen-Santana, The Latin Pianist includes authentic Latin and Salsa piano songs and styles such as Conga, Cumbia, Merengue, Son, Mambo, Cha-cha-cha, Guaracha, Samba, Partido Alto, and much more. The Modern Jazz Pianist Top studio musicians Renee Rosnes, Miles Black, Ron Johnston, and Brad Turner perform over 50 tunes in a wide variety of Modern Jazz styles - such as those of Herbie Hancock, Fred Hersch, Cedar Walton, Mulgrew Miller and many others in The Modern Jazz Pianist program. The New Age Pianist The New Age Pianist is a beautiful collection of solo piano compositions that draw their inspiration from the natural world. A full range of piano techniques are presented, from the ambient music style of George Winston to the 'New Age-Jazz' styles of Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett. Over 4 hours of beautiful music! Whether for listening or for study, this program makes a great addition to your MIDI music collection.

Multimedia Performance Series
These professional, full-featured music programs apply feature-rich multimedia progams to the detailed study of a variety of specialized musical styles. Each title is characterized by top professional performances together with extensive learning and practice aids as well as historical background. With seamlessly integrated multitrack audio, MIDI, chord symbols, lyrics, and music notation, these programs offer a whole new musical experience. We've recorded each voice or part on a separate track, allowing you to listen to each part independently. Music notation scrolls by on-screen as you listen to the audio performance, and professional-quality notation is included to print out for further study. You can study the arrangements, hear the music, and play or sing along with a top professional performance. There are seven titles in this series. The Bach Chorales The Bach Chorales is a professional, fully featured music program containing inspiring performances of Bach's famous Chorales. Listen to a professional choral ensemble sing some of J.S. Bach's most enchanting compositions, complete with a detailed multimedia history of the life and times of Johann Sebastian Bach. This interactive program contains nearly an hour of high quality vocal music, a fascinating history of J.S. Bach, and a timeline of his life. The Barbershop Quartet The Barbershop Quartet is a professional, fully featured music program containing all-time favorite Barbershop songs and an interactive multimedia history of barbershop singing in America. Made with the assistance of SPEBSQSA, the leading authority of Barbershop music in America, this interactive program contains nearly an hour of high quality vocal music plus a fascinating history of Barbershop quartets and the songs that made America a singing nation. The Blues Guitarist The Blues Guitarist is a professional, fully featured music program containing studio recordings of great electric Blues guitar music. Listen to hot session players perform great sounding blues music, while you learn the riffs, licks, and tricks. The Blues Guitarist delivers the thrill of electric blues with nearly an hour of hot blues plus tips and techniques. The Jazz Saxophonist The Jazz Saxophonist is a professional, fully featured music program containing studio recordings of great Jazz saxophone music. Listen to hot session players perform great sounding Jazz music while you learn the riffs and tricks. This interactive program has great chops - nearly an hour of hot Jazz plus tips and techniques, making it a must-have program for students, teachers, and Jazz buffs! The Rock Guitarist The Rock Guitarist is a professional, fully featured music program containing studio recordings of great RocknRoll electric guitar music. Listen to hot session players perform great sounding Rock music while you learn the riffs, licks, and tricks. This interactive program features hot players, cool licks, and neat tricks - nearly an hour of sizzling Rock 'n' Roll plus tips and techniques. The Rock Saxophonist The Rock Saxophonist is a professional, fully featured music program containing studio recordings of great Rock n' Roll saxophone music. Listen to hot session players perform great sounding Rock music, while you learn the riffs and tricks. This interactive program has nearly an hour of hot Rock music plus tips and techniques, with inside descriptions of techniques such altissimo, shakes, growls, and more. The Sor Studies for Classical Guitar The Sor Studies for Classical Guitar is a professional, fully featured multimedia music program containing superb professional Classical guitar performances of Fernando Sor's celebrated studies for guitar (Opus numbers 6, 29, 31, 35, 44, and 60, complete). We've recorded three volumes of live, complete performances by a top Classical guitarist - many with full-motion closeup videos - bringing new technology to these Classical masterpieces. This definitive collection of studies for the Classical guitar is accorded the same significance in the study of the guitar as that given to Bach's Well Tempered Clavier in the study of the piano. PG Music's innovative multimedia presentation of the material adds exciting dimensions to the study and appreciation of Sor's timeless works.

Oscar Peterson Multimedia Cd-rom
Jazz Piano legend Oscar Peterson brings an exciting new level of artistry to the multimedia experience in his signature Oscar Peterson Multimedia CD-ROM. This rich treasury integrates interactive audio/visual performances with on-screen piano display and notation. You can see and study exactly what the master is playing. Join Oscar for a musical journey through his life and career. There's also a comprehensive Multimedia autobiography loaded with audio and video clips plus exclusive photographs from Oscar Peterson's private collection. With this powerful and innovative multimedia engine, you can view and study every nuance of Oscar Peterson's virtuosity. For the first time it is possible to experience audio performances perfectly synchronized to the real-time display of transcribed notation and an on-screen virtual piano keyboard. Use the full range of complimentary MIDI features to slow the tempo, step through the piece note by note, loop, or transpose to your favorite key. Oscar Peterson Note-for-Note The companion music book, Oscar Peterson: Note-for-Note, is an authorized volume of 18 full-length transcriptions, all taken directly from original recordings and all personally selected and approved by Oscar Peterson.

Master Class Series
The Master Class programs are fully featured instructional music programs containing interactive guitar and piano lessons supported by advanced multimedia features. Master musicians and teachers illustrate basic skills to beginning players while enhancing the skills of more advanced players in the later volumes. We've digitally recorded related MIDI and audio exercises and practice tracks. All are linked to powerful multimedia features, allowing you to see and hear note-for-note exactly what the Master Class instructor is teaching. With these Master Class programs you study the lessons, hear the music, and play along with a top musician. Learn the Skills Develop pro skills by studying the exercises. Each exercise is accompanied by an exercise tip containing ideas on practicing, hand positions, tempos and more. Loop, Pause, Advance, and Backup controls make learning and practicing easy. Guitar Master Class Programs Oliver Gannon is a Juno Award winner who has also been voted Canadas Jazz Guitarist of the Year. Oliver is your master teacher in the Guitar Master Class and Jazz Guitar Master Class programs. You'll be studying Chord Voicings, Inversions, Right Hand Techniques, Comping, Scales, Modes, Arpeggios, Common Progressions, Improvisation, Chord Melodies and more. Each lesson has an accompanying exercise and a tip on how to practice it, as well as tunes that feature common chord progressions in a variety of styles and tempos. There are also reference sheets and practice (backing) tracks. Piano Master Class Programs Master Jazz pianist Miles Black is your teacher in these software programs designed to illustrate basic skills to the beginning pianist while enhancing the skills of more advanced pianists. Once the beginners volume has been mastered there are fully-featured interactive piano lessons for Jazz and Blues players. You'll be studying topics such as Roots and Shells, Block Chords, Stride Piano, Playing the Blues, Scales, Common Progressions, Improvisation and more. All of the lessons are accompanied by practice exercises and backing tracks, and are further illustrated with tunes included in the program.

Video Guitar Lessons For Windows And Macintosh
PG Musics Video Guitar Lessons Series offers high quality instruction in the essentials of Jazz, Blues and Rock guitar. The programs present detailed audio-video demontrations of the riffs that a player needs to know to play like a pro. Additional files are available that demonstrate the use of the riffs in the context of a song and allow the student to play along live for practice/jam sessions. A single volume of these Essential Guitar programs could include up to five hours of video guitar instruction with a master guitarist, like Juno Award winner Oliver Gannon. As the video lessons play, notation and tablature scrolls along in sync with the video performance. The on-screen notation and tablature can be printed out for practice away from the computer. Band-in-a-Box files are included so that Band-in-a-Box users can practice the riffs with rhythm section accompaniment. The Windows version of this program can be used either as a standalone program featuring notation and video, or it can be used in conjunction with Band-in-a-Box. The Macintosh version requires Band-in-a-Box 12 for OSX for full functionality.

Powertracks Pro Audio For Windows
PowerTracks Pro Audio is a fully-featured music recording and editing sequencer, with seamlessly integrated digital audio/MIDI recording, notation, instant audio vocal harmonies, intelligent chord symbol interpretation from MIDI files, DXi instruments and plug-ins and much more. PowerTracks Pro Audio is loaded with powerful features for musicians, students and songwriters. PowerTracks Pro Audio Features PowerTracks Pro Audio includes ASIO support, a fully-featured Piano Roll Window, time stretch and pitch change for audio tracks, half and quarter speed audio playback, drag and drop audio editing, DirectX Plug-ins and much more! The ASIO support in PowerTracks Pro Audio can achieve near-zero latency to echo MIDI thru notes to DXi softsynths in real-time. The Piano Roll window allows precise edits of MIDI tracks and graphic editing of controllers for automated playback. Time-stretch and pitch-change features give even greater flexibility for audio tracks. In addition to the standard DirectX plug-ins included with PowerTracks Pro Audio 10, there are specialized plug-ins included that can easily convert your old vinyl collection to CD or MP3, find the proper equalization settings for your project, and suppress vocal tracks in your favorite recordings. Other advanced features include shift-click support, drag and drop editing, block select, and selective paste options. Automatic audio harmonies instantly add up to 4 audio harmony parts to any audio track, with the option of pitch styles for truly authentic audio harmonies or special effects. PowerTracks Pro Audio combines ease-of-use, outstanding features, and unbeatable value to make it a favourite among computer music production programs.

Band-in-a-box For Macintosh Os X
Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh is built for OS X, and runs native in OS X Jaguar, Panther, and Tiger (version 10.2 or higher recommended). It has new and improved Styles, Soloist, Harmonies, and Song Demos, making your Band-in-a-Box program sound better than ever. Weve edited the existing styles, and made many more styles using the newest features. This automatically makes your existing songs sound better. New Soloists, Melodists, and Harmonies are included. You can export your Band-in-a-Box files and import them into Apples GarageBand program for further processing. And we include a great QuickTime video tutorial, showing you all the newest features. Band-in-a-Box is fully Mac OS X carbonized. Timing has been improved to microsecond accuracy for tighter playback. The user interface has an attractive new look in the OS X environment with high-resolution program and file icons. MIDI support for Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh now includes CoreMIDI (for support of external MIDI devices) as well as support for QuickTime Music synthesizers. MIDI driver enhancements allow users with controller keyboards to play thru the QuickTime Music synthesizer from their MIDI keyboard. Other features include: odd-time signature support (7/8, 11/8 etc.), up to 1024 Soloists, choice of drum pattern or regular count-in, low root harmony setting in Harmony Edit dialog, Strauss-in-a-Box to automatically transform any 4/4 song to a Waltz 3/4 feel, De-Strauss to transform any song with a 3/4 time signature to a 4/4 feel, StylePicker, audio and video memos for songs , options to set the note density in the Soloist and much more.

Band-in-a-box For Windows
Band-in-a-Box for Windows is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia computer. You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from nothing to something in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your on demand backup band. Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords to any song (like C or Fm7b5), pick a musical style from the hundreds available, and click the [Play] button. Band-in-a-Box then automatically generates a full backing arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings. And thats not all... Band-in-a-Box is a powerful and creative music composition tool for exploring and developing musical ideas with near-instantaneous feedback. Over the years many features have been added to Band-in-a-Box - Notation, Piano Roll, Lyrics, Melody Tracks, Harmonization, the StyleMaker, and StylePicker. The Soloist and the Melodist are popular intelligent features; the Soloist generates professional quality solos over any chord progression, the Melodist can create songs from scratch with Chords, Melodies, Intros, Solos, and even a Title! The inclusion of digital audio features makes Band-in-a-Box the perfect tool for creating, playing, and recording your music with MIDI, vocals, and acoustic instruments. Band-in-a-Box for Windows can also record an acoustic instrument or voice to add to the composition, with processing through DirectX audio effects. Its built-in audio harmonies will turn your audio track into multiple harmony parts or adjust its pitch by tracking the Band-in-a-Box Melody track. Audio harmonies include vibrato and scooping effects for realistic styles. You can print out your finished creation with repeats and endings, DC markings and codas, or save it as a graphic file for web publication or to e-mail to a friend. And when you're ready to let others hear your composition, you can burn it directly to an audio CD. Or save your composition as a Windows Media File or in other compressed formats for a file thats Internet ready.

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