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DDR-style piano software

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(This requires a large screen, trust me - I've taught it)

Dance Dance Revolution style piano teacher. 52 slots (thin columns), left to right, for each white note on the keyboard. The black notes lie in between and are colored darker. Right hand notes green, left hand notes red. Notes scroll up the screen and hit a graphic piano keyboard at the time you play each note. It plays just like Dance Dance Revolution, with one sensible addition: solid horizontal lines indicate bars, dotteds indicate beats, thus eliminates the need for both key signatures and rhythmic notation, since nobody really needs either at the early stages of piano. And many don't ever learn or care even at more advanced stages.I'd pay 200 bucks for it.

My experiment:MIDI program with "piano roll" view rotated in second display. I set the track colors as mentioned above and let the keyboard send MIDI controls to determine tempo rations and track soloing (same as hand soloing, since track 1 = RH, track 2 = left hand). Super efficient.

white52black36, Aug 01 2007

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tempo ratios is a must, since 88 keys under 10 fingers is harder than 4 arrows under 2 feet...

white52black36, Aug 01 2007

That would take a big screen to work. Otherwise the player will be scaling the scale from a screen about 1/4 the width of the piano keyboard- not an easy bit of conceptualization

C2H6O, Aug 11 2007

Yes!! Be sure to check out Klavarscribo.

I found your post by searching for "DDR" and "piano", because upon newly re-discovering Klavascribo yesterday, it made me think "DDR-style piano notation".

I just added a post to my blog about Klavarscribo.

evanlenz, Nov 02 2007

In case you're still tracking this, I'm working on basically what you described, and I'll be blogging about it here:

http://evanlenz.net/blog

evanlenz, Jan 02 2008

This is similar to the Guitar Hero video game, which unfortunately is not a great way for youth to learn how to play guitar but improves dexterity.

J Logback, Jan 25 2008