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But the reviews...
There are ads on top of in-app purchases?
And the fact that there are songs for $0.99 (which let’s be honest are probably sourced from freely-available MIDI files and plugged in to the already-made engine).
I’m going to heartbrokenly stick to the web version.
That aside, this is an amazing idea. Would happily pay for a working version
Does anyone know how this does the playback in the browser? Is it WebAudio? I tried to reverse engineer it but couldn't figure it out.
Some casual observations:
- As someone who has delved a little in DAWs and working with MIDI, one thing that struck me is when controlling velocity with on a physical, linear scale, exactly how little extra velocity is needed to voice a melody properly. For example, playing Moonlight on my phone, I play the opening notes as quietly as possible and voice the melody by playing a few bare "millimetres" more to voice it.
- It has really forced me to know the music in a different fashion, as a single, additive rhythm as opposed two hands with two independent rhythms. For example, the first few bars when the melody enters in Moonlight sonata: I wasn't sure if I keep the fidelity of the dotted-eighth rhythms verses the triple eighths, or if I turn it into essential a sextuplet.
- I found that some quicker figures, such as the opening of Mozart's "Alla turca" are best achieved by using the actual fingering I would use in the original. At a certain speed, in order to achieve the rhythmic precision required, I had to use piano technique.... on my phone screen.
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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…
I give the Moonlight Sonata credit for me becoming a decent pianist. It was above my level when I was a kid, but I wanted to learn it, and my teacher encouraged that. With enough practice on a piece that was so far above my current ability, I seriously leveled up as a pianist. My teacher's ability to help me learn what I wanted to learn made me so invested in piano as a kid. Many kids don't stick with music because (…
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Nope, coming soon. Was a disappointment for my kid after I told her there were more songs.
there are more. the menu is somewhat awkward. it wasn't working for me in chrome properly (wasn't able to choose other pieces). works ok in safari, had a blast with toccata and fugue in d minor.
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.
There are also a couple of pages that seem to have a copy of the com.earslap.touchpianistapp APK, but I can't vouch for any, as I don't have a disposable mobile with which to test at the moment.
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…
I think that’s the term used for synth music
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I have bad news concerning pop music.
Very little pop music is as repetitive as the moonlight sonata. In that respect it is more closely related to trance than pop. Most pop music is also shorter, and an easier mix of even shorter movements. In other words, most of it will be over a lot sooner for the poor, suffering teacher.
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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.
that's sad. a yearning musician should be able to learn and play whatever they want and whatever makes them feel a certain thing. moonlight sonata evokes something in me i can't explain (which is probably why it's a legendary piece). having strong opinions on what to play when learning feels so gatekeepy. i would have dropped that teacher quickly
B. wrote 32 sonatas, only a few have titles, and they're usually the most known ones. No one remembers "Opus 27 No. 2".
Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful movement, but there's much better ones among his sonatas.