FlowKey’s for me!
I’m so happy! I’ve rediscovered my motivation to learn to play piano. I’ve been trying off and on for 50 years and while I still have a very long way to go, I think this time I’m going to get there. FlowKey has the songs and music I really want to learn. This is the motivation I’ve needed. And the user interface is so simple and easy to use. I’ve only been using it for 2 weeks, but now that first thing I do when I wake is practice piano, because I want to. I never thought I could find the time, but now I do! Thank you! I could go on, but just give it a try.
Phil Francis
Fitzroy North
Australia
Phil Francis
Fitzroy North
Australia
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Annoying
I downloaded this app because I wanted to learn songs but almost every song is premium and you have to pay for it. At this point I would just go on YouTube because they have way more options
Good app in theory
In theory I like how the lessons are set up to get you from no knowledge whatsoever to playing music right away while giving you tips on things like proper posture and hand placement that won’t seem relevant right away but will set you up for success later on. There is an extensive song library as well and ways to personalize it with things you are interested in. My biggest hang up was with note recognition. Trying to learn on an acoustic piano I tried all the tips to try to improve my iPads note recognition but nothing really worked, and it was highly discouraging to have to quit, not because I didn’t enjoy the lessons, but because I couldn’t continue on in them because no matter what I did it couldn’t recognize I was playing the note it wanted. There seems to be a lot of solutions for keyboards which is nice, and makes sense because they are electric and could potentially digitally communicate but no help to me on an upright. Maybe one day I will learn to play the piano a different way.
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Response from developer
Thank you for your feedback, I am sorry though that the note detection did not work as expected. We recommend for acoustic pianos be tuned at the standard pitch (440 Hz), but we are aware some older pianos are tuned a half step down from that and while we do try to incorporate some leeway into the note recognition, anything that's too far off from A440 won't get properly picked up. We have already been discussing a synchronizing feature, where the app would adjust to each instrument's tuning since we understand how helpful that would be.
Slowly but steadily playing at last!
Self taught musician playing professionally over 50 years (now retired) I’ve been attempting to play sight reading piano on and off for over 60. To me, it’s like a left brain mathematical thing and I could never get it. But, finally, with Flowkey it’s working. It seems to appeal to my creative right brain in helping to learn this mysterious language and play the music. Flowkey is the best app of its kind offering a more traditional musical approach. And so very affordable compared to private music lessons. Thanks Flowkey 😍
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Four stars
I have been practicing here for a few months now. Its great for practicing. I am a self learner. The only issue I have is when you have the song on the self play as you go along the keys tend to stick and you have to hit it hard to make it move. Sort of annoying. Especially when you are hitting the right notes. Other than that I love playing here. Its giving me lots of practice with the advanced notes. Something I need to work on. Besides my issue, I would give it five stars. I too started with Simply Piano. I finished the course there. I am still with them because they have sheet music at my level. Flowkey has really opened the doors for me. Its giving me the opportunity to advance on my own pace. I love the challenge.
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Amazing app to learn piano
If you have never played piano this is the app you need. I play guitar and I’ve played trumpet in school so I have a idea how sheet music goes but it’s been many years. I have never played piano so I am a complete beginner I work 8 hours a day and I practice using this app about 2 hours when I get home I’m only 5 days into the trial and can read sheet music and know all the keys on the piano. This is a amazing app I thought the lessons were kinda random I would learn a couple notes then jump into other stuff then jump back to more notes but now I see why they placed the lessons like they did it helps to pick up more advanced stuff later down the line. Very well made app and great teachers thank you flowkey so much.
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Not responding to sound
I would give this app 5 stars if it wasn’t for the fact that it doesn’t respond to sound, despite picking up the notes from my keyboard (I can see the little mic in the top left corner picking up the notes as I hit the keys, and they are the right keys, but the exercise does not progress). It’s as if it got stuck. Because this annoying issue has been happening quite a bit since the beginning of my free trial, I may not purchase the app, and it is upsetting, because this truly is a good app, definitely worth the money, if it actually worked all the time and not only some of the time. I hope this problem can be fixed (I’ll change the rating then). Thank you!
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First saying using
I have tried many piano apps, some use the lay out where the notes are falling, like Synthesia, while I think that’s great, traditional music playing is done by site reading, this app is incredible, it shows SOMEONE PLAYING the song in real time, highlighted notes, in REAL TIME with the music, that in its self is incredible, I have been looking for something like this, I was using just sheet music before this and wasn’t learning fast enough, I learned half a song today, I have not even talked about the wait mode, which listens to you play, and won’t progress until you play the right note, so helpful, incredible, and the looping system, this is almost everything you could want from a piano app, not to mention it has lessons for music, this is what I’m suggesting to anyone who wants to play piano, I just have to ask why this wasn’t in my life sooner
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Love this app. Just one request
After a couple decades of not playing, and previously having reached barely an intermediate level at best, I’m finally back at it and progressing thanks to this app. I have just one request: Please add an option in wait mode for the songs (not necessarily in the lessons but in the song selections) where the letters of the keys played are not displayed. I’m really trying to work on sight reading, and inevitably I find myself glancing up at the letters of the keys when I’m learning songs in wait mode. They’re impossible to ignore. I’m learning the songs quickly and ultimately memorizing them, but it’s not helping my sight reading and I feel like I’m cheating myself. Otherwise, I’m thrilled that I Flowkey has made it possible for me to bring piano playing back into my life. Thank you!!
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Easy to use
Easy to use
Response from developer
That's very good to hear :-)
