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Re: Touch Pianist

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Post by thecosas »

tuzemec wrote: post #88
johtso wrote: post #23

Great choice of song! If you ever have access to a piano, I highly recommended trying to fumble your way through Beethoven's moonlight sonata, even if you don't know how to play piano. Not quite sure how to put it into words, but it's absolutely exhilarating hearing your own fingers produce these huge sounds and intense chord progressions. Every time I managed to find the right chord I'd get such a rush. "Oh no he di…

When I started taking piano lesions a few years ago, one of the first rules that my teacher established was: "No Moonlight Sonata" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My guess is that it resembles in a way playing "Smoke on the water" in a guitar shop.

Wonderwall :-)

Re: Touch Pianist

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Post by krumpet »

dceddia wrote: post #84
danpalmer wrote: post #45

I'm not sure I get it. On desktop I just click to play the next beat? On mobile there's no audio (in Safari or Chrome). And the track selection appears to be broken? Have I missed something? What's the pull here?

It doesn’t make sounds on my mobile Chrome either (iOS) but I’ve noticed other sites don’t either. I’m guessing there’s a setting somewhere that I denied once long ago and now it can’t play sounds :/ If anyone knows what that might be please let me know!

Honestly, I don't understand what the pull is either. This is just cow clicker for music. I appreciate the design and interactivity, which is nice, but maybe because I'm a musician, I don't understand what is fun about this.

Re: Touch Pianist

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Post by Popeyes »

shimonabi wrote: post #120

Can someone suggest some good piano learning software? I really don't like subscriptions. Many years ago I used Voyetra Teach Me Piano Deluxe which ran on Windows XP, but gave up after some time. I think I'd have to create a virtual machine to run that again. My town is so small I can't find a piano teacher.

https://sightreading.training/ might be useful for you.

This old thread go mentioned a while ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16482104

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Post by tantalor »

danpalmer wrote: post #100
cdfuller wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had to switch off silent mode on iPhone for audio to work. Any chance it’s the same issue for you?

Bingo! Thank you. Turning off silent mode and refreshing the page fixed it. That's very strange though, I wonder if it uses a weird sort of web calling API or something for the audio. I've never had an issue with audio in web pages before, and even the youtube video the page embeds sounds fine. It seems quite poor UX (of Safari? Chrome?) to require turning off silent mode – many people never turn it off so it's not v…

You're confused why a feature called "silent mode" would make your phone not make sound?

Re: Touch Pianist

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Post by julianeon »

App idea inspired by this that I'd like to see:

Something like this, that has a big library of songs, where you specify the delay between notes and the speed at which it is played (ideally w/all notes displayed so it can be really really customized).

Re: Touch Pianist

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Post by SubiculumCode »

One thing I noticed about this piece is that the one thing that kills its spirit is too steady of a tempo...

it is actually quite amenable to an extremely loose interpretation of tempo, with swings of 300% in the pace feeling both natural and moving

....like the tempest of the storm...sometimes racing, sometimes deliberate. Try it here by listening t the mood of the music and clicking faster or slower...its quite amazing.

Re: Touch Pianist

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Post by tantalor »

On web, opening up the "choose differnet piece" window, then clicking a piece does nothing.

Expected would close the window and load a new piece.

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