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Re: Touch Pianist

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Post by anonu »

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…

Totally agree with this. Moonlight Sonata one of my favorite pieces to play while I was growing up. I recall showing my piano teacher I wanted to play it - she was classically trained and taught very advanced pianists (I was not one of those) - and I remember her just rolling her eyes. I kept playing it anyway in my free time...

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Post by magic123_ »

dietketchup wrote: post #52
magic123_ wrote: post #44

Love it! It could be even more awesome if the velocity of each key press had an impact of the volume, that way we could control two properties at once.

Velocity is controlled by where you tap the screen (vertically)

Ah yes indeed, but I don't think it can be controlled if you're using a physical keyboard. For instance if I play using the keypad on my keyboard, 1 could be pianissimo and 9 fortissimo.

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Post by dceddia »

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!

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Post by vermes22 »

dceddia wrote: post #69

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?…

Clicked on the link to see the post's year and quite surprised that 8 years ago was actually 2015 and not 2005 as my system 1 (Kahneman) memory imagined at first!!!

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Post by cdfuller »

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?

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

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Post by tuzemec »

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.

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Post by lysp »

That was a lot of fun. I know the first movement off by heart so that was fairly easy.

Third movement was much more fun - trying to get some of the timing on that was pretty tricky. Had to alternate between 2 fingers and then throw in the 3rd one for some of the trills.

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