Piano Maestro

September 5, 2024

A shiny new version of Piano Maestro is live! This is a major update with lots of new goodies. We’ve listened to your amazing feedback and have been working hard to add a bunch of your most requested songs, strengthening the stability of the app as well as squashing tons of bugs. Our developers and musicians can now sleep easy! In more detail: - More amazing songs! We’ve added a sparkling collection of most requested hits in 2024 for your students to enjoy including "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay, "Made You Look" by Meghan Trainor, "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley and "Lift Me Up" by Rihanna. Our developers have also worked tirelessly to: - Improve the speed and stability of the app. - Fix the book links - Strengthen app stability with performance boosting improvements and bug fixes. Keep your feedback coming! Write to us at education@hellosimply.com with any questions or issues you find so we can work our magic

December 5, 2023

A shiny new version of Piano Maestro is live! This is a huge update with lots of new goodies. We’ve listened to your amazing feedback and have been working hard to make the app fully compatible with iOS 17, adding a bunch of your most requested songs and squashing tons of bugs. Our developers and musicians can now sleep easy! In more detail: - More amazing songs! A mouthwatering collection of your most requested songs in 2023. Your students can enjoy playing “Barbie Girl” from the new ‘Barbie movie, “Circle of Life” from ‘The Lion King’, “He's a Pirate” from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and “Rainbow Connection” from ‘The Muppet Movie’. Our developers have worked tirelessly to: - Improve the speed and stability of the app. - Fully optimize the app for iOS 17 - Strengthen app stability with performance boosting improvements and bug fixes. Keep your feedback coming! Write to us at education@hellosimply.com with any questions or issues you find so we can work our magic

September 11, 2022

The latest, sparkling version of Piano Maestro is now out! This update is HUGE with lots of new goodies. We’ve listened to your amazing feedback and have been working hard to add a bunch of your most requested songs, improved your beloved Teacher reports, polished the “Share The Moment” feature and squashed tons of bugs. Our developers and musicians can now sleep easy! We’re also bringing the Piano Maestro app you know and love into the Simply family with a shiny, new app icon! In more detail: - More amazing songs! A mouthwatering collection of your most requested songs in 2022. Your students can enjoy playing 'Top Gun: Maverick' movie theme, hits from Disney movies 'Encanto', 'Toy Story' and more. Our developers have worked tirelessly to: - Improve the speed and stability of your Teacher reports. - Fix the "Share The Moment" sharing links - Strengthen app stability with performance boosting improvements and bug fixes. Keep your feedback coming! Write to us at education@hellosimply.com with any questions or issues you find so we can work our magic

August 29, 2021

This MAJOR update is a big one with LOTS of new goodies. We’ve been listening to your amazing requests and are super happy to add a magical, musical adventure for you and your students to enjoy in a new Disney Song Special! In more detail: * Fun Disney special with magical songs for your students to learn. * Iconic songs like "How Far I’ll Go" from Moana and "Part Of Your World" from The Little Mermaid will be added to the Library. * All songs have personalized step-by-step practice options making it easy for your students to get playing. * Enjoy quality time together as a family while you play these classic songs, adding that touch of Disney magic into your home. Overall stability of the app has also improved thanks to our developers squashing multiple bugs and making other improvements. Phew. We also added the ability to search for your favorite songs in method books too. Our developers and musicians can sleep peacefully now. Keep your feedback coming! Write us at education@joytunes.com with anything you need help with or if you’ve found something buggy. We’ll then make sure to work our magic :)

September 1, 2020

This MAJOR update is a big one with LOTS of new goodies. We’ve been listening to your amazing feedback and have been working hard to give teachers the ability to hide songs, save favorite songs for easy access, added tons of fun new songs and squashed a gazillion bugs at the same time. Our developers and musicians can sleep peacefully now. In more detail: -Don’t want your students learning and playing a specific song? Now you can hide them with a new teacher control that allows you to hide songs! Just tap on the hide song icon. -Now you can save your favorite songs for easy access with a new super cool favorites category in the library! Just tap on the heart icon to create your own list of songs you want to learn. -Overall stability of the app has improved thanks to multiple bug fixes and other improvements. Phew. -Ability to sign in with Apple. Keep your feedback coming! Write us at education@joytunes.com with anything you need help with or if you’ve found something buggy. We’ll then make sure to work our magic :)

November 6, 2019

Now fully optimized for iOS 13. Thanks to your feedback we also fixed a few pesky bugs that caused the app to crash: - The app no longer crashes when watching a video. - Share the Moment bug has been eliminated:) - Sometimes the app crashed when you tried to connect to a teacher. It shouldn't have done this, so we fixed it. --------- What's New in 6.0 This MAJOR update is a big one with LOTS of new goodies. We’ve been listening to your amazing feedback and have been working extra hard to add tons of fun new content, an improved Library search and squashed a gazillion bugs at the same time. Our developers and musicians can sleep peacefully now. In more detail: - New songs to celebrate the upcoming birthday of one of the greatest composers of all time - J.S. Bach! Now you can enjoy learning to play the beautiful Arioso, Little Prelude in C Major, Joy (theme from Cantata) and Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod). - New pop songs have been added! Have fun playing top-charting hits like Old Town Road and Girl On Fire. - Now it’s easier than ever to search in the growing Library! We’ve added the ability to search in exercises and method books so you don’t feel like you’re looking for a needle in a haystack. Phew. - Overall stability of the app has improved thanks to multiple bug fixes and other improvements. Keep your feedback coming! Write us at education@joytunes.com with anything you need help with or if you’ve found something buggy. We’ll then make sure to work our magic :)

October 30, 2019

Now fully optimized for iOS 13. Thanks to your feedback we also fixed a few pesky bugs that caused the app to crash: - Share the Moment bug has been eliminated:) - The app no longer crashes when you try to connect to a teacher. --------- What's New in 6.0 This MAJOR update is a big one with LOTS of new goodies. We’ve been listening to your amazing feedback and have been working extra hard to add tons of fun new content, an improved Library search and squashed a gazillion bugs at the same time. Our developers and musicians can sleep peacefully now. In more detail: - New songs to celebrate the upcoming birthday of one of the greatest composers of all time - J.S. Bach! Now you can enjoy learning to play the beautiful Arioso, Little Prelude in C Major, Joy (theme from Cantata) and Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod). - New pop songs have been added! Have fun playing top-charting hits like Old Town Road and Girl On Fire. - Now it’s easier than ever to search in the growing Library! We’ve added the ability to search in exercises and method books so you don’t feel like you’re looking for a needle in a haystack. Phew. - Overall stability of the app has improved thanks to multiple bug fixes and other improvements. Keep your feedback coming! Write us at education@joytunes.com with anything you need help with or if you’ve found something buggy. We’ll then make sure to work our magic :)

September 15, 2019

This MAJOR update is a big one with LOTS of new goodies. We’ve been listening to your amazing feedback and have been working extra hard to add tons of fun new content, an improved Library search and squashed a gazillion bugs at the same time. Our developers and musicians can sleep peacefully now. In more detail: - New songs to celebrate the upcoming birthday of one of the greatest composers of all time - J.S. Bach! Now you can enjoy learning to play the beautiful Arioso, Little Prelude in C Major, Joy (theme from Cantata) and Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod). - New pop songs! Have fun playing top-charting hits like Old Town Road and Girl On Fire. - Now it’s easier than ever to search in the growing Library! We’ve added the ability to search in exercises and method books so you don’t feel like you’re looking for a needle in a haystack. Phew. - Overall stability of the app has improved thanks to multiple bug fixes and other improvements. Keep your feedback coming! Write us at education@joytunes.com with anything you need help with or if you’ve found something buggy. We’ll then make sure to work our magic :)

October 4, 2018

This MAJOR update brings the best experience yet. It’s also the biggest release for performance related fixes ever. We’ve been listening to your amazing feedback and have been working extra hard to add fun new content, LOTS of performance boosts, iOS 12 optimization and squash a gazillion bugs. Our developers and musicians can sleep peacefully now. In more detail: - New songs include the famous Gymnopédie, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, California Dreamin’ and the Westworld theme song. - The app used to crash because of the memory pressure, so we reduced this pressure dramatically by almost half with multiple fixes. Now the app is more stable as it doesn’t take up as much memory. - Images load much faster for a smoother scrolling experience. Especially on older devices. - Piano Maestro is more powerful than it has ever been, so now you can enjoy longer playing sessions without it crashing. - One specific bug causing the “Next” button at the end of levels to malfunction has been eliminated. Now it works again at the end of levels in the Journey, Method Books and Home Challenge. - Fully optimized for iOS 12. - Overall stability of the app has improved thanks to multiple bug fixes and other improvements. Keep your feedback coming! Write us at education@joytunes.com with anything you need help with or if you’ve found something buggy. We’ll then work our magic :)

September 28, 2017

Now fully optimized for iOS 11 Thanks to your feedback we also fixed a few bugs and nasty crashes: - We fixed a really annoying bug that sometimes happened when trying to access the membership tab. Sorry about that. - You’ll now have a better experience when you have a problematic network - Other minor bug fixes Keep your feedback coming! Write us at education@joytunes.com with anything you need help with or if you’ve found something buggy. We’ll then work our magic :)