Many people respond well to video games as learning tools and Playground Sessions capitalizes on that. The system has gamification features similar to popular games like Guitar Hero. This makes transitioning to online learning smoother due to the familiarity. In fact, the accuracy measures for piano practice are quite similar to how Guitar Hero scores players.
Most people can really benefit from the strong, well thought out rewards system that gamification provides. If you have no plans to be a solo piano player, Playground Sessions can back you up. Every lesson and song comes with a backing track comprised of strings, drums, and guitar to play along with.
This helps you become accustomed to the interconnected nature of musical instruments. It will help you learn to work with other musicians and connect with a songs rhythm more deeply than a metronome could. Plus, playing with a band makes you sound really good! The curriculum is designed for various levels of expertise, with course levels including Rookie, Intermediate, and Advanced. This course structure is great for complete beginners who are comfortable with a virtual learning environment.
Although parents with very young children may find Piano Wizard more effective, Playground sessions is far more interactive than courses like Learn and Master Piano or PianoForAll. While these online piano lessons are recommended for ages seven and up, adults will find that the course is perfectly suited to them.
The pacing and the level of progress tracking can help motivate anyone to push through and keep learning the piano and master skills at different levels.
If you are looking to hone your existing skill and technique, this could be the course for you. Even on today's fastest devices, problems arise when the music moves beyond simple melodic lines into complex chords and close harmony. Then there is the possibility of background noise… We want pitch detection to be reliable for the full range of our music before we incorporate it into the app.
Otherwise, people will trade needing to plug in for the hassle of receiving inaccurate scores because pitch detection did not work as it should. Thank you for the kind words!
New songs are added on a weekly basis. Feel free to reach out to the support team for additional assistance with app setup and keyboard connection! They can be reached at support playgroundsessions. The developer, Playground Sessions, Inc. Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More. With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
App Store Preview. Description We make learning piano fun. If you played a note incorrectly, it will instantly turn red. This feature allows you to always know where you stand with the music. By knowing your problem areas in a song, you can then focus on cleaning them up, ultimately allowing you to learn the music much faster. Clickable Notes All notes in Playground Sessions are clickable.
Click on it! Wondering how to play that chord you see in measure 9? Each time you click on a note in the interactive sheet music the note s will then highlight on the On-Screen Keyboard at the bottom of your screen. While the notes on the On-Screen Keyboard are highlighted, you can then find and match them on your keyboard to play them. Video Tutorials Playground Sessions has over 30 hours of professionally recorded, HD videos in which its instructor, David Sides , holds your hand and walks you through different piano concepts and gives you pointers to get through different songs.
These videos explain and demonstrate key concepts to help you get through your lessons, and you can play, pause, stop, and rewind the videos at any time, allowing you to learn at your own pace. Small Sections In the continued spirit of learning music in small puzzle pieces and then putting it all together in the end, Playground takes this same approach when learning sections of songs.
When learning a piano arrangement from our Song Store , each song is going to be broken down by hand right hand, left hand, both hands together and by song section verse, chorus, bridge, etc. Playground Sessions understands this and has added different elements to keep users motivated to put in the time to get better!
Some of these elements include earning points, badges, and stars which all translate to leveling, bragging rights, and even free songs!
The technology in Playground Sessions is designed to help users learn to play the piano in a fast and fun way. Do you have any suggestions as to when you might switch from seeing note fingering to note names then nothing at all?
Would you switch when you reach some level of skill, such as half-way throgh Rookie, or perhaps jump back and forth on a lesson by lesson basis? A great time to switch from fingering numbers to note names would be after watching the first Intro To Notation video. At that point, it really just comes down to practice and repetition.
After watching that lesson, you should even consider going back to earlier lessons and trying to play them using their letter names. Just started playing at beginning of the month and already able to play with 2 hands. Try the new iPad app first and you will subscribe to Playground Sessions. Hope that the iPad version will soon give the video facilities that the desktop version has. However, connecting my digital piano to my iPad gives me the facility to have my piano in another room away from my home computer.
I just started playing after Xmas and I am soooooo enjoying the lessons. The pace, the feedback and the explanations are just super. One question: I am actually using note names — but the finger positions on each note changes with the songs, is there an easy way to remember fingers and note positions other than just practice and practice?
Playing our lessons using the letter names rather than the fingering numbers is a great way to pick up sight-reading quickly. The purpose of the fingering numbers is really just to help you get into hand positions that allow you to easily play the notes within a passage of music. Because the general direction of the notes moves from time to time, your hand position must move with them.
This is why the fingering numbers change as you go from song to song. Being able to associate fingering numbers with different notes is somewhat of an art. In general, all you need to do is look at the direction of a passage of notes that you want to play, then guess which hand position will give you the best chance of playing all of those notes with minimal hand movement.
The more you play, the easier this becomes. Thank you David! You got it! And consistency is key. Hi, new member here and new to playing piano electronic keyboard and loving the app.
Does the iPad app have all the features of the website? But no progress after that. I am having a very good braodband internet connectivity. So no issues from that part. I have tried going to Edit-Manage lessons. There is button to Cancel Download.
But nothing happens if I click this button. Since I am not able to download this session, I am kind of stuck. Please help me resolving this issue. Re: downloading troubles Post by davidsides » Tue Sep 22, pm Hey Paul, Are you still dealing with this issue or has it been resolved?
The lessons intitiled "Chord Voicings and fing
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