This made me shed a tear.<p>I played the piano for years but due to a physical disability I can no longer play like I used to. Pressing the keys, maintaining rhythm and hearing the music come out is the closest feeling I got to what is now a forgotten memory.<p>Thank you Mr. Batuhan Bozkurt, for taking me back a few years to all those fun hours I spent on the piano. Please add more pieces (Liszt!) and keep up the good work (incorporating the pedal into this somehow would be really nice)!
Very cool, well done! I just showed it to my wife and 3 year old and both spent 45 minutes playing with it.<p>Some suggestions:<p>- the ads on iPad are really obtrusive. Please remove them. I'd gladly pay for the app or the individual packages. ( I deleted the app within 5 minutes)<p>- a "buy everything" option would be nice<p>- I think a two handed mode would be really great: perhaps you could consider generating two timelines with separate even handlers so that you can play multiple rhythms at the same time. Would be a nice "advanced mode".<p>- eventually , an option to include scoring would be nice. You could compare the actual rhythm offset with the"ideal" rhythm to train user rhythm. The current "sandbox" mode really should stay, though, since I really enjoyed watching my kid playing with it :-)<p>Other than that, great work!
Why is the iOS app free? After playing with the in-browser demo for just a minute that would've been an extremely easy $2 to part with!<p>EDIT - oh, it's got ads in it. Removed. Sorry, if you ship your software stuffed with some 3rd party crap that most certainly nobody wants and then offer to disable that part for money, then it's an instant No. Please make a proper paid version with none of this nonsense and I will gladly pay for it.
Mandatory link if you don't know this:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/smalin/" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/smalin/</a>
This is a really terrific app. In many ways is nicer than siting back and listening to music, as it makes you think more about the flow and melody of a piece. I enjoyed this very much.
There is a similar game on iOS called Magic Piano [1] - it seems to have licensed many popular and older songs and you can play them on iPad with an almost identical UI, for a freemium cost.<p>[1] <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/magic-piano-by-smule/id421254504?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/magic-piano-by-smule/id42125...</a>
I couldn't believe that the Waldstein Sonata (first movement) was an option! I've listened to that piece I don't know how many times by so many different pianists (favorites are Wilhelm Kempff and John O'Conor) but I'm not a pianist and could never dream of climbing that mountain. And I tried it and of course made a dire mess of it but it was still SO MUCH FUN!
At the risk of being the naysayer, I'm not sure it teaches you how to play the piano so much as it teaches you about musical rhythm and timing and note relativity and would help develop the ability to play by ear. It doesn't really distinguish between clefs or hand placement, and did the relative placement thing worked better when things were closer together anyway.
I love things like this that convey some sense of what it feels like to be a musician. A game like <i>Space Channel 5</i> is another example; the gameplay is extremely simplistic and would be boringly repetitive if the game didn't make you feel like the star of a musical.
A fun, easy-to-use implementation of the conductor program (see <a href="http://www.musanim.com/tapper/" rel="nofollow">http://www.musanim.com/tapper/</a> for an historical overview of this idea). Not a professional-grade tool, but a good introduction. I played through all the fugues in the first book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier --- I ALMOST know them well enough to do this perfectly (except, of course, for the ornaments; I almost never guessed those right). The one thing that surprised me: after playing for a while, my fingertips felt really bruised (this is on an iPad); I've played the piano for 54 years, and I've never had this sensation playing a real keyboard instrument.
.) Love it.<p>.) I can imagine teaching playing piano changed to use something like this simply because it provides such a pleasant and so rewarding experience of accomplishment in contrast to what the "usual" way of learning the instrument tends to be. Who would drop lessons if this was the experience?<p>.) I see it as a very strong, supportive set of crutches. Currently only guiding the tempo of play but which could easily be extended to support other parts of play: reading notation, mapping to keys on the instrument, left/right hand coordination etc. etc.<p>.) Over time "the crutches" could become less and less supportive and in the end I could play my beloved "Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2" without them and later start even interpreting it...
this is wonderful! would there be a way to save the output? would be interesting to see how others interpret a piece. really also wishing that we could track keyboard velocity as well:p
Excellent work! I'd love to integrate this into my product Soundslice (soundslice.com), which is web-based notation/music education software.
Great idea. As an occasional pianist, this would be fantastic right at the start of trying to learn a new piece, where I don't have a feel for the sound of it yet. I could have the sheet music up and "play" the correct rhythm while hearing the notes.<p>Once I mastered the piece I would never play it on here again though, for fear that it would interfere with muscle memory of the actual keys.
Does anyone know this for ableton?<p>I'm searching for that for quite some time to humanize metric beats / midi tracks.<p>maybe I need to fiddle something together....
As interesting as it is, I don't really see a educational use for this. It's fun and all to tap along, but in the end it's nothing better than something like DDR or Rock Band. Nothing wrong with a fun app, but I doubt it's educational uses. (this coming from a lifelong pianist)
Very cool Idea!
I was playing around with this.
If you want autoplay (at least on desktop)
c/p content of <a href="http://pastebin.com/0n14HS11" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/0n14HS11</a> in console.
(tested on chrome)
At the end of each piece there was this "Applause!" at the end - it would be cool if it were to be converted into a button which actually plays an applause when clicked (I thought it was a button when I first saw it).
I think this could be an excellent tool to learn some piano pieces with the addition of a step-backwards button, so you could practice small chunks or certain chords over and over and really analyze them.
Select Eric Satie's Gymnopedies and just hit the keys as fast as possible at a regular tempo. It sounds like a free-wheeling jazz version (think John Coltrane)! :-)
beautifuuuul<p>I'd love to get more insights on how to properly play, some sort of music notation tips or best figured bass, I understand the spacing means tempo, but adding such info could help those of us who can read music<p>Also, I'd like to play with many fingers multiple notes! It feels natural to press all once you know there a chord coming.<p>Finally, thanks for such great piece of art!!
This is absolutely stunning. I bet elementary school music teachers would love this as a teaching tool.<p>Another thought for you - I wonder if you could plug into a music website like noteflight.com? If you could, then people could search among many thousands of pieces to play. Just a thought! Keep it up - it's a beautiful project. Thank you for sharing.<p>In peace,
Mike
This is awesome. Super easy to get started. I would love to see the ability to see the notation somewhere as I'm playing and the ability to rewind a bit. I could definitely see me using this to scout out a piece.<p>This really made my day. What a great way to blow off some steam.
Cool, I like it.<p>BTW, cool music visualization: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o</a>
(you can't play there, but it helps o perceive music better)
When I read the title, I thought it could learn your random tap rhythm and search through a piano db and find the best match, or even better, slow & smooth morph into another rhythm according to your tap<p>It turned out to be different, still cool though.
Very cool. On a somewhat related note (pun not intended):<p>I have created an app to learn the music staff notation. Web version: <a href="http://www.adhyet.com/flamingnotes" rel="nofollow">http://www.adhyet.com/flamingnotes</a>
Even for a rhythm trainer it is disappointing because you're forced to tap at a set interval, not what the notes are actually saying. And forget double-tapping when there are two notes on a single interval -- that just plays two intervals!<p>Thumbs down from a lifelong DDRer and casual pianist.<p>Though idank's comment is nice to see!