To play music on the computer there are many different ways, some professional, others playful and more fun. Guitar Hero is the very famous game where you have to follow the keys indicated on the screen while taking on an electric guitar. Like Guitar Hero, there are other free pc games (like the famous Frets on Fire) where you use the computer keyboard like a guitar (even holding it like a guitar). In the same way you can play the piano with a program that simulates all the 88 keys of a real piano and which indicates the notes to be played in a legible way even for those who do not know anything about written music. After seeing the best online pianos and synthesizers to play freely and the piano lessons online, I point out a game called Synthesia that proposes some famous melodies of classical and contemporary music to be played on the piano on the PC, following the keys indicated on the screen on the Guitar Hero .
The peculiarity of Synthesia and its strength is that it can also be used with an external MIDI synthesizer, therefore attaching an electronic keyboard to the computer. So if playing with the computer keys becomes more of a challenge to try and find your way around with the keys, attacking an electronic keyboard Syntesia becomes one of the best free programs to learn to play a piano.
As mentioned, the notes on the screen are not indicated with the classic symbols, but the music follows with colored strokes that descend from above and indicate which key to press on the virtual piano and for how long. Synthesia allows you to learn to play in a fun way, even for those who cannot read the notes of the staff.
Clearly the experience is valid if you attach an electronic piano to play with two hands, because otherwise, with the computer keyboard, it becomes a bit difficult to be able to associate the keys with the letters.
By installing the program, there are many classical music available to practice on the piano and for each one the level of difficulty is indicated which depends on the speed at which the notes to be played appear and their distance on the keyboard. To help beginners you can also slow down the performance of the song.
Playing Synthesia you could also learn to play the piano without knowing how to read and understand what is written in a musical score but clearly this is not its purpose which is purely playful.
Recommended for everyone at least to try, Sinthesia is definitely a must for those who have a MIDI keyboard or an electronic synthesizer .
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