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Re: Touch Pianist

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

krumpet wrote: post #123
dceddia wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Try speeding it up and slowing it down: it's not guitar hero.

Took me a few seconds.

Also, on mobile you can mega-tap.

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Post by tiborsaas »

Nezteb wrote: post #161

I wanted to see how fast I could play the entire song: const interval = setInterval(() => document.getElementById('pixi-canvas').dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent("mousedown", {bubbles: true})), 0);

Thank you for this snippet, it inspired me to play to add some randomish groove :)

    function play(i) {
        document.getElementById('pixi-canvas').dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent("mousedown", {bubbles: true}));
        const wave1 = Math.sin(i);
        const wave2 = Math.sin(i * 8);
        const mod = ((1 + wave1 * wave2 * wave2) * .5) * 350;
        delay = 150 + mod;
        i += 0.01;
        setTimeout(() => {
            play(i);
            // console.log(delay);
        }, delay);
    };
    
    play(Math.PI);
Here's the wave: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/aqs7thumdm

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Post by hammock »

dmoy wrote: post #180
hammock wrote: post #135

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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

Ease of playing the piece vs ease of sight reading the music is different though 5 flats is easier to play mechanically, imo, because hitting black keys is often easier

True. I never found it difficult to play aside from sight reading the key signature

A lot of classical music is this way to be honest, there is a lot of formulaic composition (I don’t mean that derogatory at all) and once you get the patterns it’s easy to extend, maybe even play it like a fake book.

I recall a lot of what we know was originally something closer to figured bass in the first place and later fully arranged by someone who wasn’t the original composer. Or, take a look at Mozart Requiem for example, only a small percent of which was actually manuscribed by the man himself.

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Post by globular-toast »

johtso wrote: post #114
globular-toast wrote: post #110

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I can't not cringe slightly when someone calls something like Moonlight Sonata a "song".

Reading back my comment now, I know what you mean! I guess "piece" would have been a better word, or even just "music".

Yeah, just music. I have heard people use song to mean any music before, though, so it's probably something I have to deal with. I do like some songs but 90% of the music I listen to is comprised of either tracks/records (electronic music) or pieces (classical).

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Post by chopin »

jimbob45 wrote: post #106
mccoyc wrote: post #76

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The first movement is one of the only pieces I can play on the piano. Yes indeed, anyone can learn it! I came from a musical family, but never really put the effort into learning the piano. I'm not sure where I heard this, but Beethoven wrote this for one of his students that he was in love with. The first movement was purposefully written for a newcomer to be able to play--such as for whom he admired, but the third…

The 3rd movement is not one of the hardest pieces to play. It’s like medium-hard. It’s not even the hardest sonata - that would be the Hammerklavier.

If one wants to play a well-known sonata I'd rather start with the Tempest. Considerably easier than Moonlights 3rd. And as beautiful imho, the 3rd movement especially.

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Post by saaaaaam »

As my piano teacher used to say, “what did the piano do to you to make you hit it quite so hard?” This is known as the “Moonlight” sonata not the “thunder and timpani” sonata.

It’s a great demo but the dynamic range of your piano robot is horrible.

Oh! Can I adjust the dynamics based on where I touch? I take it back! Bad workman blames his tools etc.

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Post by blowski »

gnulinux wrote: post #169
tuzemec wrote: post #88

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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.

A lot of music teachers are like that. I personally consider it shitty. My friend's first violin teacher (when she was 10 years old) made her do empty string bowing for a year. Just pull and push bowing. Now, don't get me wrong, technique is extremely important, and a lot of teachers have "if you can't do it well, don't do it" mentality. But really these people miss music is also tons of fucking fun. For a 10 year ol…

This happened to my sister. She was having fun playing Disney and ABBA songs, then changed to a different teacher who discouraged her from playing anything but classical. She quit playing within a year and now refuses even to play her favourites.

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Post by ldjb »

tantalor wrote: post #130

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.

I'm using a Microsoft Surface and had the same problem when trying to click using the trackpad, but tapping it on the touchscreen worked.

Re: Touch Pianist

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Post by thruway516 »

Wow! Thankyou very much! That was beautiful. New and genuinely good ideas are truly rare and I feel you've possibly discovered something here. I can just imagine the possibilities if one could also somehow vary the dynamics as well just with touch. Alas force-touch screens are probably not coming soon to consumer cellphones soon but now I can visualize a good reason for them. Edit- apparently this was from 8 years ago. The app does not appear to work on my modern iphone 2nd edit- it looks like I can vary loudness or softness depending on where I tap on my phone, at least on the website 3rd edit: Having way too much fun just playing the moonlight sonata at different tempi with different loud and soft passages. Tapping as fast as I can with 2 fingers is a new revelation of this piece!
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