Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Skoove: Lessons and features You get 25 lessons for free, or over 400 if you take out a premium subscription. The app can run in-browser on a desktop machine, or via an app on a mobile device (the company has just launched its Android-friendly app, which is available for free for a limited time).
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Read More »Why you can trust Top Ten Reviews Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test . Skoove is a desktop or mobile piano learning app which teaches you how to read standard notation (sheet music) and play piano. You’ll soon be using two hands to play bass notes, chords and melodies and the app lets you move at your own pace, so you don’t ever need to feel rushed. The experience isn't quite as precise as some other piano apps, however, and while it makes our list of the best online piano lessons (opens in new tab), there are things that rivals - like Playground Sessions (opens in new tab) and Simply Piano (opens in new tab) - are more accomplished at.
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Learn More »The collection of introductory lessons could be described as either ‘scattershot’ or ‘bold’, and both would be accurate. In the first one and half hours with this program, you are shown how to play with one hand, two hands, in 4/4 time, 3/4 time, 6/8 time and not only with black notes (all of them - that’s six flats in the key signature) but you’re also asked to improvise. That’s a heck of a lot to take in (though you’re not really required to understand any of it, so don’t feel daunted), and while of course you can go slow if needs be, when it also tells you to play louder to be more rock and roll, it’s apparent that this app doesn’t tell you anything an actual piano teacher would tell you to do in the first lesson. Still, it is undeniably fun to play Queen’s We Will Rock You and Madness’s Our House in the first session, and the play-along backing tracks are nicely produced so it’s a strong start. After that, the lessons slow down and become far more mundane, introducing you to notation, timing and giving you some extremely basic lessons before moving on pretty quickly to two-handed playing. It’s just not as well-paced as the likes of Simply Piano. This is also highlighted by the need to keep clicking to move to the next lesson instead of going there automatically. It’s also not always clear when you’ve mastered a particular lesson. It happily tells you how many minutes you spent on each exercise, but doesn’t tell you how much you got right, unlike Playground Sessions’ details breakdown. And when you actually play along with the band, you’ll have to be your own judge of whether you did it right or not - you can literally play anything you want and the program won’t bat an eyelid, which is obviously far from ideal. Even when you are being kept in check in the practice mode, note duration isn’t checked at all, so you can play every note with a tap, which isn’t going to teach you how to play properly. It’s also not ideal to have an app where the music doesn’t scroll across the screen - instead you read right-to-left like you would with real sheet music, although a playhead bar follows the beat as you go. This playhead doesn’t quite match up with the timing of the beats on the desktop version but it’s not too severe. What’s worse is the inability to see what’s next as the playhead reaches the end of the stave, whereupon you’re dropped into the next bar, blind. It’s far from ideal. It’s certainly not a disaster, but all of the small niggles add up to create an app that just isn’t as usable or intuitive as the competition.
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Read More »There’s a full FAQ section on the Skoove website or a contact form at https://www.skoove.com/en/contact (opens in new tab) - this promises a reply within 24 hours unless it’s a weekend. In terms of user reviews, we found opinion to be mixed on the service. Some praised the "Good variety of songs, good piano sounds and good ease of use," but felt let down by the lack of "metronome and no pause during pages".
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