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Re: How to Learn Piano with Technology

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Post by leafo »

If anyone is interested, I've been building a tool to help you learn sight reading and other piano skills. It runs in your browser and connects to a keyboard with the web midi api (chrome only)

You can check it out here: https://sightreading.training/

It's opensource: https://github.com/leafo/sightreading.training

It's very WIP, but I've used it a lot and I've definitely got a lot faster at reading notes. There isn't a good way right now to read rhythm in it. I pretty much use it as an experimental area for me to test new ideas to practice stuff, so there are a lot of little tools in there

Re: How to Learn Piano with Technology

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Post by 7Z7 »

moltar wrote: post #46
wickawic wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a simple example, any music that “grooves” (makes you want to tap your feet) tends to not be perfectly sub-divided into 4 beats. Different players in the same band may be intentionally (and/or subconsciously) hitting their notes on different parts of the beat to increase this effect. In this type of scenario there really isn’t any substitution for practice and “feel”, a metronome would never get you there. In ter…

It’s called “swing”, right?

In some contexts, yes.

Re: How to Learn Piano with Technology

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Post by cadr »

conorh wrote: post #34

I'm 40 years old, starting working with the Simply Piano app a few months ago and spend about 30 minutes to an hour each day practicing. I have zero prior musical experience. I think a piano teacher would probably be an excellent investment, my daughter started piano around the same time with a teacher and she is progressing slower, but I can see that she already has a much more solid base than I do and will learn to…

The thing I like about Simply Piano is that I actually do it. But a lot of that is because I can do it on a little keyboard plugged into my phone on the train.

Re: How to Learn Piano with Technology

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Post by simplify »

_raoulcousins wrote: post #45
wickawic wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a simple example, any music that “grooves” (makes you want to tap your feet) tends to not be perfectly sub-divided into 4 beats. Different players in the same band may be intentionally (and/or subconsciously) hitting their notes on different parts of the beat to increase this effect. In this type of scenario there really isn’t any substitution for practice and “feel”, a metronome would never get you there. In ter…

I see. I guess it was just me misinterpreting "perfect". To me it's obviously not perfect to play like a robot.

Agree, "perfect accuracy" was a bad choice of words. When learning a new song it's best to "never play a wrong note" – to make sure you play each note with 100% accuracy, no matter how long it takes you. This trains your muscle memory much more efficiently than playing less than perfect and undoing the muscle-memory-learned mistakes as you go along.

Re: How to Learn Piano with Technology

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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

Tech is nice but it's motivation that finally makes you learn piano. There's no replacement for a teacher that pushes you forward and of course you putting in the time.

Tech is similar to a siren calling you and then disappoints you. It might even be worse since you lose motivation and will eventually stop trying.

Re: How to Learn Piano with Technology

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Post by cocoablazing »

wickawic wrote: post #40
_raoulcousins wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious question: what does it mean that perfect accuracy is a bad thing? I'm not a pianist and I'm not a professional, but I'm an amateur oboist (20 years in student/amateur orchestras). I think of technical accuracy as necessary but not sufficient for playing music. When I really have a piece down technically I can focus 100% on musicality, but I want the technical parts down solid. Of course as I'm practicing, I a…

For a simple example, any music that “grooves” (makes you want to tap your feet) tends to not be perfectly sub-divided into 4 beats. Different players in the same band may be intentionally (and/or subconsciously) hitting their notes on different parts of the beat to increase this effect. In this type of scenario there really isn’t any substitution for practice and “feel”, a metronome would never get you there. In ter…

Roger Linn on groove: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/interview/roger-linn...

Re: How to Learn Piano with Technology

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Post by troydavis »

leafo wrote: post #51

If anyone is interested, I've been building a tool to help you learn sight reading and other piano skills. It runs in your browser and connects to a keyboard with the web midi api (chrome only) You can check it out here: https://sightreading.training/ It's opensource: https://github.com/leafo/sightreading.training It's very WIP, but I've used it a lot and I've definitely got a lot faster at reading notes. There isn't…

I've been using SRT (thanks!) along with these 2 sites:

* Prelude: https://www.getprelude.net/#/sightReading?_k=wequj6 (source: https://github.com/BHSPitMonkey/Prelude)

* Sheet Music Tutor: http://www.sheetmusictutor.com/ (source: https://github.com/philippotto/piano-trainer)

Web MIDI is amazing.

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