The BEST APPS To Help You Learn The Piano!

In this video I give you the apps that I think are the best for helping impove your piano playing. I decided to break the video down into several categories so you can decide which apps might help you the best.
The categories are: Note Recognition, Ear Training, Timing, Theory, Sheet Music and Step-By-Step Learning Apps.
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[@moonxvisual]

Thank you soooo soooo much for taking the time to find all these apps and sharing them with us. This was so helpful

[@sharingmatters]

Thanks for the Music Tutor as I want to master sight reading.

[@KevinSkylark]

Such a useful information you have given us.❤

[@cvc778]

Thank you! Appreciate your research and information Very helpful

[@matticawood]

No problem! 😊

[@md-33]

This video equips me with everything I need to lay the foundations for learning piano. Thank you Matthew! 😊🙏

[@DoctorNerf]

One good thing about Simply Piano is it provides a fuck tonne of sheet music to learn from which basically means it is serving two purposes.

[@Emery-Coffey]

Thanks!

[@Rich28448]

Great video with some useful apps mentioned. With respect to music learning apps I've been enjoying Flowkey. In particular the function that enables you to isolate a particular section of the music paired with the wait function so you can really get a small section right before moving the selection along to the next part. Getting it right also includes showing you which fingers to use as well as obviously the actual notes.

[@YanasChanell]

I like Flowkey, but it’s bad for my sight reading skill😂

[@andrewgeiger4178]

Firstly, I love your videos and all the advice! I started on a plastic keyboard in SEP 2023 with an app called "playground sessions" and I have to say I love the App wholeheartedly! After playing for a few months I came across a lot of your videos and they really help me out / keep me interested. Took your advice and upgraded to a Yamaha P-225 and got myself a teacher and started taking lessons from around March. My playing has improved tremendously! I still use the App everyday and I still take lessons, but my biggest take away's from my lessons are - My teacher ,being an accomplished pianist, sees/hears things I am doing wrong that I was completely unaware of. Such as - I have an involuntary Pinky curl playing scales in my Left hand that I am making a lot of progress getting rid of. Never took notice before he pointed it out when I said I was having difficulty playing Em Scale quickly. That's something an App cannot do! Thanks for all the Videos and I look forward to the next one!

[@BobKeefe]

Wow, KZbin recommended your three year old video and then your current one. Big improvement in presentation. At first I didn’t realize it was you in both. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to make these videos.

Great video! Getting more and more apps to help me learn the piano and reading sheet music. What do you think about the learning journey Pianote offers? I'm a total beginner and currently using Pianote myself.

[@JuXuS1]

open your piano. the best thing i ever did on a real piano is taking of the front lid to se the HAMMERS and their distances in a chord. the keyboard can be distracting but the hammers are clear halftonesteps. just like on a guitar.

[@HouseCatTV]

Thanks, I was looking for an app that did what the music tutor app does.

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[@raf444]

on the apps section, I have used simply piano before, but I have severals critiscisims to it, I do however really like playground sessions, the selection of great sheet music and the tools to learn it are great, as well as accompaniment if you are into that, endded up getting a lifetime subscription myself and I really like it, the advanced type of music feels really good and compleat, even though advanced actually means "begginer advanced" I would say from a broad piano skill standpoint, still sounds great

[@rajendermehta]

extremely useful, Is there any app which can give me a score on correct notes and timing based on sheet music? Point out errors and wrong notes. I can connect my piano using MIDI or USB to Computer / IPad.

[@KenMerrell]

I'm not sure that a metronome is all you need for learning rhythm. Yes, a metronome will help you to learn how to play in time, but it doesn't help you identify and follow rhythm notation. Is there a good rhythm app that helps with note durations, where the beat falls, polyrhythms, swung notes, rhythmic patterns like claves and shuffles, time signatures, dotted notes, slurs, beams, etc.?

[@AtticusHupps]

do you have any tips on learning how to play on 2 hands at the same time

[@Joshua-levin]

Simply piano is amazing

[@MrDjslav5]

I agree. I tried some others thinking they might be better, but came back.

[@blakesmith9039]

What works with usb and windows 10?

[@Cat_in_Bljat]

I think Simply Piano etc. does a great job of teaching you the basics and getting you motivated for playing/practicing. Piano teachers are more valuable but also fucking expensive

[@vilpamisot]

Is there an app that shows me notes on the stave and uses phone microphone to tell if I played it right? Kind of like advanced microphone-enabled music tutor for notes recognition.

[@D3VIL931]

Simplypiano,you can have a 7 days trial for free

[@silvanabalsimelli590]

What about playground piano app ?

[@MeaHeaR]

When I heard thatt Metro-Knome tikking away, I got scared and wanted to be huggéd 😂😂😂

[@YeboMate]

Out of the 4 Step-by-step apps, which one would you say is more kids friendly (young kids, like primary school age).

[@Contraster671]

What about piano marvel ?

[@BrandyBalloon]

I'm surprised he missed that one.

[@rodrigosoares3161]

What do you think of Pianote?

[@gonjongo]

cool vid

[@matticawood]

Thank you 😊

[@Tyedyetime]

Have a prob with minors and flats

[@zevelgamer.]

Nice new pfp!

[@matticawood]

Thanks! 😊

[@Cool-ck2jn]

Second Also Good vid

[@rakans_quads]

I thought it’s physically impossible to fit so much value in so little time and space

[@DanHegelund]

So, there is not a free app for beginners?

[@matticawood]

There are quite a few throughout this video that are free…Music Tutor, MetroTimer, Piano Chords and Scales, IMSLP… But for step-by-step learning apps, the best I’ve seen is a free trial period.

[@Bvic3]

Musescore free version is already huge. And hem hem with the browser addon you can download the PDF and MIDI for free. Though you can't download the Musescore software sheet for free sadly.

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[@matticawood]

Hi Azal 😊

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[@Konnr]

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[@katttttt]

Thanks!