A free game/tutor that teaches you the piano.

Piano Booster is free (open source) application that is similar to the Guitar Hero game except that 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.

see Piano Booster http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• free
• piano
• lessons
• keyboard
• midi
• tutor
• Synthesia
• Keyboardmania
• Guitar
• Hero

[NarutoFan101010]

Could you help me on how to find a song ?? PLZ??

[PianoBooster]

The are some high quality demo midi files from the "Piano Booster Home" download page. Google for "Piano Booster Home" then click on the "Download" link. Under the heading "Midi Files" there is a link to page with has demo midi files contained in three zip files.

[theZodiacDigital]

will any midi file work?

[PianoBooster]

Yes, it should work with any midi file. (If you find a midi file that does not play then please post it to the Piano Booster forum)

[blower05]

Suggest adding the "acrade game" mode for "play along" that the staff is "eaten up" when correct key is pressed. It is better to also have some visual effect like the staff exploding or color changing during "eaten up" as some encouraging sense to the player. In this mode, the scrolling is not necessarily paused to allow playing fluency. Of cource, the existing version is too valuable already.

[PianoBooster]

Thanks for your comments and suggestions. I have listed my plans for future release over on the "Piano Booster forum" see the thread "Blog for January 2009". Feel free to post to this forum if you wish.

I am planing to add more gaming features like a high score in future releases.

[carlsoncarlson]

Thank you so much for uploading this! This is exactly what I was looking for :D

[Necromalix]

A great idea

[kyokushinfighter78]

This is much more useful than that awful Guitar Hero,I will download this....

[quantumelixir]

This is way better than Synthesia IMO. Many people underestimate the importance of learning to read sheet music.. falling notes may be fun for a while, but in the end reading sheet music is a much more valuable skill. Thanks for making this stuff open source!

[darkspl]

I have a classic piano. I would like to study music with computer program how to use microphone and prgoram/ to play ?

[kjunaa]

cool

[monster98012]

@xdrone08

look up synthesia

[xdrone08]

This is what i have been looking for, a very long time....it takes learning to site read to another level...man this is great.. excellent work... youre a thinker pal. Keep this alive...

[DaVince21]

Awesome idea. I'm downloading this right now!

[Xjordanary]

wo this is as good if not better than synthesia cause it gives you da sheet music cheers bro 5/5 :)