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Piano Booster

Version: 0.6.4

Author: Louis James Barman

Category: Children/Educational

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A midi file player the teaches you how to play the paino

Piano Booster is a new way to learn the piano just by playing a game.

It takes elements of the game Guitar Hero but now it uses a real Piano Keyboard and the game has been turned sideways so the notes scroll along a musical stave. So instead of pressing buttons on a fake guitar you end up learning to play a real musical instrument -- the piano.

First choose a MIDI file then select the "left" hand or the "right" hand or if you are feeling really brave choose "both hands" and try to play along. The "Follow You" mode make it really easy to sight read the scrolling notes as the whole accompaniment will stop and wait for you to find and play the right notes. The accuracy bar monitors how well you are playing.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: You need a midi piano keyboard connected to the PC

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Submitted by louisjb on 2009-02-26.

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Great posted by CRP @ 89.96.244.242 on Mar 12 2009 11:59 AM

A great way to learn piano!! And works great on Mac OS X as well ;)

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Suggestion posted by Chrishas @ 213.7.68.240 on Feb 28 2009 9:11 AM

Very nice game, an idea would be to add options for playing in one clef only and/or more instruments like bass,guitar. This is great for learning and improving sight reading.

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Re: Suggestion posted by draeath @ 65.35.137.215 on May 19 2009 9:42 PM

It's already there. Just don't play the other hand and it will play it for you.

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Re: Suggestion posted by rproust @ 173.79.164.219 on May 21 2009 7:39 AM

I've played it with guitar and it works nicely. Just choose a part that makes sense, one hand, of course. Transposing it could also be helpful. To connect in the guitar you need something that can do guitar to MIDI. I used a Roland GR-33 along with a guitar that has a 13-pin out. If this program could show tab notation it would be awesome, but still, this is a fun program. I definitely recommend it.

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Awesome. posted by Daemonax @ 121.98.170.140 on Feb 28 2009 8:06 AM

Great work, an actually useful game and under a Free software license! Five stars.

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Piano Booster posted by dusted @ 80.197.123.208 on Feb 28 2009 1:26 AM

Brilliant, simply brilliant! :) I can't wait to I get home from lan and hook up my midi keyboard :D

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	Great posted by CRP @ 89.96.244.242 on Mar 12 2009 11:59 AM
A great way to learn piano!! And works great on Mac OS X as well ;)

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	Awesome. posted by Daemonax @ 121.98.170.140 on Feb 28 2009 8:06 AM
Great work, an actually useful game and under a Free software license! Five stars.

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	Piano Booster posted by dusted @ 80.197.123.208 on Feb 28 2009 1:26 AM
Brilliant, simply brilliant! :) I can't wait to I get home from lan and hook up my midi keyboard :D

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