So I've been working on this for quite a while and it's time I made a serious push. Besides being fun I think it could have a serious impact on how people learn to play the piano. I just launchedd a kickstarter project for it here:<p>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/733181147/crescendo-playing-the-piano-was-never-so-fun<p>Any feedback would be appreciated but especially helpful at this point would be comments on the kickstarter presentation; ambiguities, missing information, odd use of semicolons, etc.
Okay, i'm no expert, i don't know how the play. But wanted to learn it a while ago.<p>As i think i could be a user, this is what you "could" keep in mind:<p>What i did was (i didn't have a piano and that's expensive), i bought a piano keyboard. (it's like a piano but with notes instead of buttons and it runs on batteries :-P).<p>All that i learned, was the start of the fûr elise while watching youtube videos. I know about the 30 first notes or so and that's where my expertise ends.<p>My brother has a piano, what i did then was put a tablet on top of it (not much space on it) and imitate a "virtual piano" app. I could imitate some some because of this.<p>Some things you should know:<p>The idea of this project is great, but a lot of people who don't own a piano. So your audiance is already "limited". Suggest alternatives like a cheap piano keyboard for the ones who don't have one. Just to get them started.<p>Second thing, not much people have place to put a monitor on top of their piano. A tablet is about the max you can get on top of ours.
You could start looking into Raspberry Pi and small screens to adjust this.<p>Third thing, you are showing notes and in the start, people don't know where the notes are, you could show piano buttons /places instead.<p>Fourth thing, you're video isn't inspiring. If you look at the top kickstarter campaigns... You'll see a lot of different things then you're video. Watch these for inspiration:
<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/556341540/pressy-the-almighty-android-button" rel="nofollow">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/556341540/pressy-the-alm...</a>
<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danshapiro/robot-turtles-the-board-game-for-little-programmer" rel="nofollow">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danshapiro/robot-turtles...</a><p>Because no matter what people say, kickstarter is work.. And making a video is your ad to the outside world.
I haven't seen any idea that got into the media, with a bad video. If you want to know how important it is, read this: <a href="http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2013/09/robot-turtles-midmortem-at-250k/" rel="nofollow">http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2013/09/robot-turtles-midmort...</a>
You need referrals, kickstarter is only a place where they can give you money.<p>I'm sorry if i sound rude, i don't have much time right now and just wanted to give you immediate feedback on my perception of things. I understand how "miserable" it can feel if "kickstarter" doesn't seem to work.<p>Get into some music/piano communities / forums / .. online. I have read on a lot of places that those could be your audiance.<p>Going out on other places for feedback, inspiration, ... is a sign you want it. But besides wanting it, there's also a lot of work into media / marketing.<p>I wish you the best and if you could address the above things. That's my sign to support you as a non-piano owner :), but perhaps i'm not your audiance also.<p>For you to decide.<p>PS. Wrote the comment fast and i'm not a native english speaker /writer