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Sounds like an excellent business opportunity for a hacker with your skills.
Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age
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Re: Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age
#12This looks fascinating. Im missing one thing though. Highlight of an app is that it can analyze play from MIDI but being an interested person it immediately pushes me toward “pick a device” which is immediate ehhhh area for myself. I know there are many and there’s personal preferences etc. but I think that (since it’s an educational system) there should be kickstart process accessible, i.e. matrix of recommended dev…
Came to ask exactly the same thing. Want to buy one for my kids to practice but I don't have an idea which would be the best given our budget and preferences so a matrix of compatible devices would be great.
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Re: Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age
#13This looks fascinating. Im missing one thing though. Highlight of an app is that it can analyze play from MIDI but being an interested person it immediately pushes me toward “pick a device” which is immediate ehhhh area for myself. I know there are many and there’s personal preferences etc. but I think that (since it’s an educational system) there should be kickstart process accessible, i.e. matrix of recommended dev…
Came to ask exactly the same thing. Want to buy one for my kids to practice but I don't have an idea which would be the best given our budget and preferences so a matrix of compatible devices would be great.
I think it's actually difficult to find a keyboard that does not do USB midi nowadays. What's more important is what keys and keybed you want, it's about being able to comfortably play on the thing, that has not much to do with this app (as at least USB midi is quite universal now, as stated)
Re: Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age
#14This looks fascinating. Im missing one thing though. Highlight of an app is that it can analyze play from MIDI but being an interested person it immediately pushes me toward “pick a device” which is immediate ehhhh area for myself. I know there are many and there’s personal preferences etc. but I think that (since it’s an educational system) there should be kickstart process accessible, i.e. matrix of recommended dev…
It is a good point, often raised by people.
I researched that for my sister for instance, and found that this series https://www.thomann.co.uk/kawai_es_120_b.htm is a very good compromise (for I consider it is best, though, to try it out a bit at a store to make your own opinion first!
Too low a price -> the pleasure experienced is lower, not flattering and discouraging to the player. But you do not need 1k€ here either now.
Re: Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age
#15On this note, does anyone know some books in references to applied music theory? I'm a pretty advanced piano player, but a lot of more basic piano players can make up chords to play with with simple tunes that sound pretty good, most of those people seem to know a certain of rules that I don't know. And googling books about piano music on google books or the likes has not yielded any useful results.
Re: Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age
#16nice, i was just day dreaming about a similar concept of collecting midi data to create fitness style visualization
what would be helpful for a beginner/intermediate is if i could practice my scales and chords, without first telling this app what i'm doing, then this app could track which scales / chords / etc i spent most time in and where my deficiencies/gaps are
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#17On this note, does anyone know some books in references to applied music theory? I'm a pretty advanced piano player, but a lot of more basic piano players can make up chords to play with with simple tunes that sound pretty good, most of those people seem to know a certain of rules that I don't know. And googling books about piano music on google books or the likes has not yielded any useful results.
I think what you're describing is the difference between learning by 'top down' thinking (ie. learning what to play) vs learning by experimentation 'bottom up' (ie. mashing random things and making mistakes until you eventually learn to replicate your favourite mistakes)
what helped me was to imagine charlie day from its always in sunny in philadelphia saying "idk man, the piano just speaks to me", then I pretend to be a rainman style idiot-savant piano player until it starts to sound good
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#18It would be awesome if the file format was open and anyone could add their own scores to the app...
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i actually tried this this weekend using spotify's audio to midi library. it didn't work as well as i hoped, but that might be volume related. might investigate a bit more
Re: Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age
#20On this note, does anyone know some books in references to applied music theory? I'm a pretty advanced piano player, but a lot of more basic piano players can make up chords to play with with simple tunes that sound pretty good, most of those people seem to know a certain of rules that I don't know. And googling books about piano music on google books or the likes has not yielded any useful results.
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