In this review, we will look at applications that will help an adult or a child learn to read notes and play the piano. Of course, they will not replace a real piano and a good teacher, but this will allow you to take the first step towards understanding this musical instrument.
flowkey
flowkey — is a good combination of theory and practice. It has separate notes for beginners, advanced and professional levels. You can control the tempo of the game, return to any place in the composition. If necessary, you can select a certain section that will be looped so that you can fully master it.
The app lets you slow down, speed up, and even has a sleep mode that waits until you hit the right note before moving on. flowkey will even show you which finger is best to use for each note. You can take each course at your own pace and repeat it as many times as you need.
The catalog contains various categories of music: classical, pop, movie soundtracks and many others.
Piano Academy
Piano Academy great for practicing reading music. The video lectures are very well thought out, there is a large selection of popular songs that are organized in such a way that you can gradually increase the difficulty. Unfortunately, there is no progress synchronization, so it is best to study on only 1 device, unless you want to go through all the levels again on another.
In the training mode, the names of the notes are shown at first, but gradually the names disappear and only the symbols remain on the staff. This allows you to quickly learn hand-eye coordination when reading notes. Recognition of played notes is good if the volume of the smartphone is not too high. If you play a note incorrectly, the app will stop until you play it correctly.
If you don't have a real piano to practice on, you can use a built-in one.
Perfect Piano
IN Perfect Piano There is a player mode with which you can play and record anything you like. An interesting melody can come to mind at any time, and you can record it in MIDI format with this app. A great app that allows you to practice playing songs, download various plugins for instruments, compete with friends (you can communicate via the built-in chat).
There are thousands of songs to learn to play. You can choose how many keys are displayed on the screen at once, or specify the range you want. Minimal advertising, no banners, and a collapsible menu bar are two nice features for those little fingers squirming around the screen.
Piano Companion
Piano Companion can be used to save any patterns that come to mind. It has the most realistic piano sound of any other app. The chord dictionary, piano function, and chord progressions will be especially useful for learning to play and write notes.
The application teaches you to read notes and understand the theoretical part. In this application, you will find all the chords and scales, without errors in intervals. It has many instructions for beginners. Piano Companion shows which notes you need to play to get a full chord. It has a piano piece with marked notes. The application works offline.
Piano Kids
IN Piano Kids Not only does it teach musical instruments, but it also teaches colors, shapes, the English alphabet, numbers, and animal sounds. It has music making, matching, and hand-eye coordination exercises. And since little ones have very short attention spans, the fact that they can choose what to play means they won't get bored.
Vivid and engaging content with minimal distractions. The only downside is the ads, even if you have parental control, you can still access the ads. If you don't want to see the ads, you can turn off Wi-Fi and mobile data before running this app.
Mini Piano Lite
Mini Piano Lite allows you to switch from piano to wind instruments: flute, recorder, whistle, saxophone. You can customize which keys you want to see. There is also a function that allows you to lock the piano in place to play a specific part.
Good sounds, comfortable keyboard, recording capability. Built-in metronome. Advertising is unobtrusive.