The software has a user-friendly interface that’s easy to navigate, whether you want to pick a lesson plan or simply skip to a song you want to learn, and you can slow things down or pause the lesson for the difficult bits. Your skill level is assessed during the setup process so you can jump into the lessons at the correct starting point. The idea is to learn to play your favourite piano songs via a selection of intermediary lessons. In fact, if you buy a Yamaha piano, you’ll also get a three months’ premium Flowkey membership thrown in.
Produced in collaboration with Yamaha - who, let’s face it, know a thing or two when it comes to pianos - Flowkey works well with either a MIDI keyboard or acoustic piano, providing accurate visual feedback and progress tracking with either method. +Suitable for all skill levels +Free option to get you started +Tracks your progress with both MIDI and acoustic pianos +Slow down, pause and loop feature
Earn rewards to level up and unlock extra content, and record and play back lessons to see where you went wrong and how to improve. Plug in a MIDI keyboard and you get visual feedback to keep you on the right track – play a note right, it turns green play it wrong, it turns red. The lessons are fully interactive and are produced in a video-game style to keep things fun and addictive. They even have their own-branded MIDI keyboard available to buy for use with the software. Playground Sessions is an online piano lesson site that wears its musical credentials with pride, and with legendary producer Quincy Jones credited as co-creator and jazz icon Harry Connick Jr as a tutor, that’s not surprising.
Some of the NES Miracle keyboards were also later converted for PC use - the Nintendo Seal of Quality on these boards was covered up with a piece of plastic.+Solid backing from successful musicians +Learn music theory as well as songs +'Gamified' learning +Great library of popular songs The European versions are, however, much harder to find. Aside from being released in the United States, the Miracle Keyboard was also released in multiple regions within Europe. Due to its prohibitive price ($500) and low sales, the keyboard with all of the original cables together are a rare find.
It provided hundreds of lessons, and was advertised as the perfect adjunct to formal lessons. Its marketed value was as a tool to teach kids and to play the piano. When connected to the console or computer, a user followed the on-screen notes. It consisted of a keyboard, connecting cables, power supply, soft foot pedals, and software either on 3.5" floppies or a standard, licensed NES/SNES/Genesis cartridge. The Miracle Piano Teaching System is a MIDI keyboard/teaching tool created in 1990by The Software Toolworks for the Nintendo and Super Nintendo, Apple Macintosh, Amiga, Sega Genesis and PC.