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I really don't feel like this works very well. It's a brilliant Idea, I've been wishing I could play piano on the keyboard, but I don't think the way it's done here works very well. The keys aren't physically next to each other on a qwerty keyboard, so a lot of the flow that can happen on the piano doesn't work.
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At first I was thinking how hard it looked from watching the menu, but after I played the skill progression and game overall was done really well. nice job 5/5
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Played Beethoven's Fur Elise and after I mastered it on this I went play in on my piano where I already know how to play it and have the sheats layed out. It took me at least 6 tries to get it right because of this damn simulater XD
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It's a lot easier to play a real piano. Either that, or it's the 13 or so years I've been playing piano making it seem easier...
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I would love to see a "Set Speed" bar that way you can practice the songs at your own pace. For me it's hard to read the notes, being new at the game and it's different when you play one hand compared to both hands, so being able to play at a pace I'm comfortable with then going back to tweak it slightly until it's the proper speed would be awesome.
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PLLLEEEAAASSSEEEE make an actual tempo option... playing pachelbells is so annoying going that slow. i want to press the keys at real tempo and i end up slowing down and speeding up and its annoying.
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the keys are attrocious. even easy songs like flight of the bumblebee become hellishly tedious to play... shift for accidentals is absolutely killing me.
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Worst rendition of a Chopin nocturne EVER. Bad for learning piano. Bad for appreciating music. Not too bad as a coordination game, however.
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a timer would be nice too, then it would be possible to play without looking the screen... if player knows the song by heart
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This is my favorite game on Kongregate, well favorite piano emulator. Its slow yes, but most beautiful sounding piano music contains slow nice parts to them. Great for a beginner slightly because its keyboard but I would recommend using it for understanding music. Take it from a person who plays the piano well, you can learn from this game.
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The difficulty doesn't really match up with how well the song ends up sounding. I found that I can mangle a song and still pass it. Other than that, really neat game!
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I really wish they have a "sandbox" mode where you can place your notes wherever you want to. Vote down if it already exists... and plz tell me about it. =/
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I request a song made, since I lack the skill at this game. Can some one please perform the song of healing on this game? Thank you.
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the controls are horrible
and in some countries the y and z keys are reversed. that makes in nearly impossible to play songs that have many Ys and Zs.
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Key mapping is pretty bad. Look at how FL studio does their key mapping, black keys on numbers, white keys under that, etc. I shouldn't be confused which notes I'm supposed to hit while playing Flight of the Bumblebee (which I've played in real life). Even with the tempo slowed down it's way harder than it should be.
Play should have a number of speed options, including "original tempo". Even with the speedup most of the songs are way too slow.
Most of the arrangements are pretty decent, but some, namely Lizsts' Liebestraum, are pretty bad. The song was written for piano so you shouldn't have to change much.
The song selection could be better. Lots of cliche songs and a few more obscure ones. Certain ones don't seem appropriate at all for what this game is trying to accomplish.
Other than that, this is a terrific game. I wish there were more games like it. I like that you have to use ALL the keys instead of only like 5 or 6 of them like on Guitar Hero.