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Amazing!
I do have some experience playing piano, took lessons about 10 years ago. Have always struggled with sight reading. Tried several apps before but none of them helped. This app is wonderful to teach you not only the notes but actually how to read them as if you were really looking at sheet music! I find that I’m not looking at the buttons on the bottom, but rather at the notes, which is exactly as it should be and is building good habits. The audio also helps, it’s a bit like practicing on a basic electric keyboard. The timer is also really helpful at building good habits and keeping me from focusing forever on the notes I don’t know. You’ve got to get to the point where you’re reading it just like a book, each note is a letter and you can’t just stall on one letter, and this app and the timer helps with that so I keep moving and am learning to read the words (the notes all together), instead of just recognizing the individual letters (1 note.) Absolutely love this app and it is worth the cost of the premium version by far.Show lessArchaeology Chick
Good for improving speed of note recognition
Aside from taking lessons when I was 10, and music in high school, my music reading skills are limited to none. I never took the time to really sit down and study reading and learning the notes. While I know the names of the basic notes, I’ve always had trouble being able to identify them quickly. This has resulted in my timing being off and having trouble following music. I’ve only spent about an hour with this app, but so far I feel it is helping improve note recognition and speed. I still get flustered and an make a lot of errors, but I do notice an improvement so far. When you retry the lesson, it appears the new attempt randomly changes the notes, with the exception of the note you are learning, which prevents you from improving your score due to pattern memorization.Show less84woodywagoneer
A little disappointed
The note recognition doesn’t work very well when I’m using the microphone. I would like to use the app with my Yamaha P45 electric piano. The app doesn’t seem to like the D note very well at all. I really have to pound the keys to get it to recognize any notes. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong with the app or the app just doesn’t use the microphone very well. It would be very beneficial to be able to use the piano keyboard instead of the buttons in the app. It seems like I have a very quiet background where I’m using the app with the piano without any background ambient noise. Hopefully some improvement will be coming and in the meantime I’ll continue using the buttons instead. I’m using the premium version of the app that I paid the $1.99 for. The amount of money isn’t such a big deal but since I paid for the feature I would like it to work.Show lessEd in Katy