I want to learn to play the piano.
A friend recommended Yousician and I tried it and I had fun, until I saw their payment plans, which just feel scammy to me ("Just from 9.99!" except that's when you pay for a year. You only want piano? No plan on their page. In app, there is one, but it costs twice that for monthly payment. If you start the free trial you play with fire because after 7 days it will bill you fucking 120 bucks etc.)
Then I tried flowkey but it just feels shit. The MIDI piano sound is really cheap and awful. Starting a lesson requires a mouse click but has no preroll which is odd every time, and for whatever reason it doesn't show note names but I can't read notes fluently yet and it seems like this is a prerequisite because the very first beginner lesson is playing the Für Elise melody from sheet.
I watched the Skoove video but it looks like flowkey and also doesn't seem to show note names either.
So I don't know. Yousician was fun but their payment plans turn me off. Flowkey and Skoove overwhelm me with reading and playing notes at the same time without any introduction to that.
Plus, all 3 seem to come across so god awful cheap with their app-on-desktop feel, like I was using a Flash game from 2001.
Does anyone here have input on that? I really like the model in theory because they ease you into it. I really doubt I'd get anywhere just printing Für Elise notes and spend 3 hours to play them on my own. I also really need a guide on how to hold hands etc., something a printed sheet won't give me.
Is there another program for self-teaching I might have missed that blows all of the above out the water? Is the money worth it for Yousician which I liked the most so far?
Submitted February 26, 2017 at 12:40PM by redditisretardedman https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/5wamii/so_which_of_all_these_learn_instruments_apps_is/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Sunday, February 26, 2017