Piano Booster
Piano Booster is open source piano teaching MIDI software that
displays
the musical notes and teaches you how to play the piano. It also
provides
piano lessons for beginners as well as for advanced players. It can be
used for teaching music theory and is useful for piano practice and
learning piano technique.
PianoBooster is a fun way of playing along with a musical
accompaniment and at the same time learning the basics of reading
musical notation. It takes elements of the game Guitar Hero to make
musical learning enjoyable.
PianoBooster has been designed to allow you to play along on a
midi piano keyboard with the scrolling notes shown on the screen. The
notes you press on the keyboard appear as coloured lines on the musical
stave, the colour of which depends whether you have pressed the right
or wrong note.
A different musical instrument sound is used for your playing depending
whether you are playing the right or wrong notes. This feature also
allows PianoBooster to be used with printed sheet music so you can hear
if you are playing the right notes while at the same time keeping your
eyes on the printed score. The music accompaniment will automatically
wait for you to find and play the correct notes in the piece.
To run Piano Booster you will need some MIDI files preferably
with right and left piano parts on channels 4 and 3.
Features include:
- Follows your playing when playing along to a
musical MIDI accompaniment
- Play a single hand and Piano Booster will play the other
hand in time with you (and will also play the violins, the bass, the
drums etc. in time with you)
- Change the speed of playback to match your playing ability
- Transpose +/- 12 semitones without stopping the play back
- Change the Key Signature of the piece
- Plays any standard midi or kar file
- Play along to any instrument in the midi file
- Adjust the volume of the current part or the volume your
piano part
- See the accuracy of you playing
- Change the start bar to start playing from any bar in the
music. The repeat bars allows you to practice just a few difficult bars
continuously
- Timing markers are white crosses that are drawn over each
note and show if you are playing ahead or behind the beat
- A different instrument sound is used for the right and
wrong notes that you play
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