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Re: Touch Pianist

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Post by yawnxyz »

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…

I agree! This really gives a taste of the feeling of playing moonlight for real on the piano.

I also realized there are some notes I might have been playing wrong for many years (oops)

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Post by ADcorpo »

thecosmicfrog wrote: post #27
ADcorpo wrote: post #19

I am sorry if this is not the place to discuss it and will remove my comment if needed, but seeing websites "highly recommending" the use of Chrome seems like bad taste nowadays, especially with what's going on with WEI.

It seems to work fine on Firefox for Android. I wonder what the author's concern is that he'd recommend Chrome?

Maybe they only tested in Chrome and do not want to address complaints coming from users on a different web browser, who knows

I just get real «this website was optimized for internet explorer X» vibes from this, I really do not want the web to end up back to this state.

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Post by Timpy »

gnrlst wrote: post #21
IAmGraydon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Velocity is also critical, but it’s doing that for you.

I only noticed half way through you could adjust velocity depending on vertical touch. Really nifty! More expressive and fun than I expected. Bravo.

I noticed that too! This could be a fantastic learning tool, my music professor described how to crescendo into the tension and decrescendo into the release but being able to experiment with this tool could help you get an idea of what you want to do before your fingers have the right touch to do it.

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Post by verelo »

oerpli wrote: post #29

If one were really great with this - would it be possible to reproduce both the Richter and the Gould version of the WTC 1 Prelude in C Major (except maybe some flourishes)? For reference, the first few minutes of these links: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1osi_pQcUdM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjnKuhcfB6U

Prelude in C is what i went to try look for before hitting the upgrade screen!

Agreed, that piece changes so much with tempo, i was excited to play with it.

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Post by flappyeagle »

bestest wrote: post #15

I like the idea, but there's a delay. It's noticeable enough to be annoying and making it impossible to play out the pieces exactly as I would like to. It just feels like when I get in a rhythm I end up being one tick forward. Or is it just me?

Are you using Bluetooth headphones? AirPods have a delay that makes playing rhythm games impossible

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Post by fdgjgbdfhgb »

Wow, this really puts in to perspective how hard the Appassionata is - I could barely keep up with the tempo doing the trills with one hand, I can't even imagine actually playing it. One day maybe :^D
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