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Bluetooth codec is to blame. Some Bluetooth codecs are (very) low latency. I used my phone speaker. My daughter (5) loved it, thank you. Was odd it only worked once in Firefox Mobille (Android). I had to install Vivaldi (badum-tsh) to get it to work again. Was a let down it was only one song.
There are more songs in the menu (I think).
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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.
My guess is that reason is that Moonlight Sonata is not hard to learn, just tedious to teach a beginner, because of the endless repetition of relatively short phrases shifting and changing a little bit at a time. This is what makes it fantastic, but learning to play it is mostly learning a few phrases and recognizing the shifts, which I can imagine would drive your teacher nuts until you're at a stage where you can p…
If anything, the issue is that as a whole, the piece is fairly technically demanding, but the first movement is simply enough for most intermediate pianists to sight-read, so something that seems approachable soon becomes impossible for anyone below a certain level.
Oh man! Thank you for posting this. I saw this here on HN years ago and loved it, and then could never find it again. Judging by the YouTube videos linked from the page, it looks like 8 years ago?! I got chills playing through it. Awesome to see that it's still up on the internet after all those years. It's interesting to compare the comments here to the original launch 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
Touch Pianist – Tap in Rhythm and Perform Your Favourite Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9490372 - May 2015 (100 comments)
It would be really cool to be able to work voicing in, but I can't think of a way short of another piano!
Random question, but... why is everyone in this thread referring to volume as velocity?? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
As someone who paid many of these Beethoven sonatas growing up, I love this. It's like guitar hero! You get to not worry about a whole class of things and just focus on your timing and dynamics. It would be really cool to be able to work voicing in, but I can't think of a way short of another piano! Random question, but... why is everyone in this thread referring to volume as velocity?? I feel like I'm taking crazy p…
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…
Moonlight is very easy on the fingers. But the constant variations are a challenge for people with poor memorization and slow recall like myself. You hit an F# instead of G# on the third repeat of a pattern and it's all over.
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…
Moonlight sonata was hard for me, still is… because I only ever became fluent up to three sharps and three flats key signatures. And moonlight is in a key that is 4 sharps. Makes it very hard to fumble through
5 flats is easier to play mechanically, imo, because hitting black keys is often easier