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2 STAR
I give this two stars because it’s good at teaching you, but it usually hears wrong and also in some of the songs they move their hands and it doesn’t show that they do. Also, a lot of the songs are just popular music. I searched for a song and then it said it couldn’t find it. And a lot of the songs are membership, which is not cool. Please change this. Also they don’t just have to be KiD aPpRopRiAtE. There might be an adult playing, and just finding kid appropriate songs??? They would not be happy. EXTRA: (Probably not helpful for people reading this unless you are the creator) If you can may you please add accounts? I would also like to change the background. Something that would be FUN to add is a quiz on songs. Thank you for reading this, I hope it was helpful ฅ^ ༎ຶ ﻌ ༎ຶ ^ฅShow lessmrs. crazy person
The frustrating moments outweigh the good stuff
I love a lot about this app. I like the courses, being able isolate the hands and sections of music, and being able to see someone’s hands also playing the music. However, as soon as the app has trouble hearing your notes, you will get very frustrated very fast. In some of the courses you will be forced to repeat your practice over and over again because the app thinks you’re not playing the right notes. It actually makes me play worse and unable to complete parts of a course. I miss the version before that just had you play through a few times and then carry on. It’s like a video game you can’t win. Horrible.Show lessPodTink
The best, most versatile piano app, for all skill levels
If you don’t know how to play, it can start you from the beginning. You don’t have to learn to read but you can if you want to. Learn how to improvise or learn specific songs. If you know a little about playing the piano, it can help you improve. I learned a little piano years ago but not enough to sit down and “play,” and music should be all about playing around and enjoying the experience. flowkey is helping me develop left-hand accompaniment that applies to a wide range of songs. flowkey is well-designed and thought out.Show lessAshenfelder
Add skip ability
It would be great if you would add an ability to skip listening to the demo. If I want to practice skills, I don’t need to necessarily listen to it twice every time. I would like the option to skip as needed. This would be very helpful for making this part of my daily practice.
Also I’m coming back to it after a while. And when I was using it to study the songs, I had one slight frustration that made me not use it as often. And that was just that if I wanted to hammer out a certain section that I personally had trouble with… There was no way to do that. It would be nice if you could work on a piece, and narrow in on just a section you wanted to work on. And not the sections they choose. And that you could do it as slow or as fast as you wanted until you got it. And not have to listen to them play it (you would see if you were correct, because of the read notes or of moving forward)Show lessLurkling
Tentative 4 Stars
I give this app a tentative 4 stars. I tried Flowkey and another piano app together for the 7 day trial and found that, overall, Flowkey worked better for me. I played an instrument in grade school and had unsuccessful private piano lessons as a kid and was definitely in need of a refresher on reading music. I think this app does a nice job introducing the elements of reading music (though I do sort of wish there was a written element where a note would appear and you had to name it by letter, like a written pop quiz) It also allows you to practice a piece as needed before moving on. Another small gripe is how many times you have to push play or OK to start the activity. I wish this could be a voice command so that you can get your hands situated and then say “OK” to start the exercise. My tentative 4 stars is based on the fact that shortly after starting to play more than one note at a time, the app has a hard time determining if you are playing the correct note. This make practicing extremely frustrating having to play the same note many, many times until it hears it correctly to move on, ruining any flow you had going and making it hard to actually learn a piece of music. I have a cable coming so that I can plug my iPad into my keyboard and hope this improves the experience. If this works, it will solidify my 4 stars.Show lessHill B.W.
Developer Response
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback. Nice to hear that our app helps you to refresh your piano skills. And you definitely have a point regarding the clicks in the courses. The good news is that we are already working on improving this. Our goal is to remove all unnecessary clicks in the courses so you can keep your hands on the keys. Sorry to hear that the note detection seems to have problems when multiple notes are played. This issue will definitely disappear with the cable connection. It's a game changer for sure. So I hope you enjoy practicing even more then.Probably a good tool for beginners
I’ve been playing piano for almost 20 years- I started when I was five. After I moved to my own apartment, I decided to buy a Yamaha digital piano with weighted keys to best mimic the true touch of a real piano. I noticed this App from Yamaha’s website and decided to give it a try. After tried playing several pieces, I think this app is really ideal for beginners who do not know anything about pedal, dynamics, and the flow of music. The only thing this app cares about is wether you played a note right or wrong. While playing the note correctly is an essential part for beginners, for more advanced players, there are certainty room for improvements. This App did help me correct some notes that I unintentionally played wrong, but I had to stop and correct the wrong note before I can move on. Imaging you’re playing some beautiful pieces in front of your friends, this app keep yelling at you for one note and will not show the rest of the sheets before you correct it. More ideally (at least for me) is that after I finish playing the whole piece, this app can tell me the locations of notes or chords I played wrong in this piece. But I think it is still a quite powerful tool for beginners who just want to press the key and play some music.Show less凰萧
My sister and mom love it, but...
Edit, I realize that I wrote this when I was near drunk-levels of sleep-deprived, but I still think that it’s criminal that the Celeste soundtrack isn’t available. It already has a full piano album and translates so well to piano!
Alright, this service works well and taught my sister how to play the piano. My only gripe is pretty niche, and it’s that the game music section is a bit sparse. It was the Celeste game soundtrack by Lena Raine that got me to love piano music. The soundtrack has a piano album and would make a wonderful addition to Flowkey’s library. Some of them would make great songs for beginners, but would be enjoyable to learn for anyone. Personally, I find it difficult to keep working at learning a skill as a personal long term goal, and piano is no exception; however I know that these songs would keep mine and others’ interest. I reiterate, this app works wonderfully and already has a large library of songs, but I personally have a harder time due to music preference.Show lessNamed Name 139
Developer Response
Thanks a lot for your comments. And I can totally understand that you would like to have the Celeste soundtrack in our app. I'll definitely put this suggestion on our wish list. We do plan to add more pieces from different genres, so we can also discuss adding more game music. Our goal is that everyone finds enough inspiring songs in our app no matter what kind of music preference they have. It's a challenge but we'll keep doing our best. :)Learning Piano to do a different instruments(s)
I’m not going to be using this app at all, learning several instruments is challenge especially when you’re blood runs everything Music and your able to play and sing however the mind blowing issues with trying to practice if you have a little time to kill, etc is that you charge for anything you can have and want free online and it’s of course legal. I just don’t know what makes people want to pay for way better tools and any song you ever want to play really if you have the skill. I would never buy anything especially if you want completely different learning easy tools and music I love to play it doesn’t have to be difficult to play with at least an hour or so of practice and I was playing the hits immediately even was quickly able to play sing and record a very great song my mom wanted me to play and sing it was out recorded the next afternoon. Try is the best thing to do to help people who want to pay.Show lessDefre'
Could be better
This review is coming from a musician. I’ve played guitar and drums for years and always wanted to play piano. I took an intro course in college and haven’t played piano since.
This app is good for beginners. I started off having to skip plenty of the lessons because it’s stuff I already knew and didn’t realize.
If you’re playing on a real piano or a keyboard with less than 88 keys it could be a problem. The app requires you to be in the same octave and won’t move along unless you hit the correct notes. Even hitting the correct notes but a different octave won’t allow you to proceed. I have a 88 key Bluetooth enabled keyboard which makes this app much smoother.
My complaint are with the songs. Almost every song I picked out also incorporates the vocal melody. Now this is nice, but if I’m trying to learn “Let it Be” I want to play it like Paul McCartney and sing along. Not be forced to play the vocal melody making it nowhere near what he’s actually playing.
Maybe create a “master” mode or something where it’s the instrumental how the artist would play it and sing on top.
The subscription price for this app could get expensive. But I looked at it like 20 a month and I get all the piano lessons my time allows. That’s worth it for me and definitely got the rust off my hands. I’ll continue to learn the beginnings of songs on pro before the vocal melody kicks in and improvise the rest.Show lessvitodrums247
Best Piano App
Ever since I was little I wanted to learn piano. When I turned 20 or so I took three years of lessons here and there but then I started my career and didn’t have time to really pursue. This app has me sitting behind my piano at least 2 hours a day! I get to learn all the classical songs I always dreamt of ! I get to pause the video and rewind what a teacher would show me as many times I can. I get to pick out short minuets and practice techniques. I mean this app is just amazing!! it’s making my dream is being able to play come true at the age of 33! I tried a bunch of apps out there, there is nothing like this. Thank you a thousand times!! SShow lessFabjnhbhbhubub
