This is definitively my new way of learning the piano

[Tokzic]

Keyboardmania?

I have it on my home PC, I'd upload it if I was at home rofl

[Coolboyrulez0]

Sythesia is ****ing sick
Can't believe I haven't found it earlier. Thanks psycho

[who_cares973]

Originally Posted by KgZ

you know I have something like that too

it's called actually playing the ****ing instrument lmao

but when you play a real piano there arent any falling bars that tell you what to hit

[Coolboyrulez0]

Originally Posted by KgZ

but seriously, I bet if you spent enough time to get good at a keyboard simulator, you can probably get just as good with a real piano.

Whatever happened to reading sheet music and playing scales?

sooo last century

[25thhour]

holy **** thats fing crazy.

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by KgZ

but seriously, I bet if you spent enough time to get good at a keyboard simulator, you can probably get just as good with a real piano.

Whatever happened to reading sheet music and playing scales?

Reading sheet isn't as easy to read and does not supply a solid tempo for the player.

And if someone is looking for fun rather than to develop a career as a concert pianist, I don't see why playing this sort of thing would be bad.

[bmah]

It's funny how this thread is being treated as a new discovery. Keyboardmania is oooold stuff.

I failed it when playing at the arcade, despite playing the piano for almost my whole life. I certainly don't agree that playing the piano proficiently will necessarily give you much of an advantage, since you don't normally read musical scores as bars that fall down a screen.

P.S. I think you can find the Keyboardmania games (JPN PS2 I think) as well as the official Keyboardmania controller on play-asia.

[DayMan951]

I played it once at Arcade Infinity and it was without a doubt the hardest game I have ever played.

[Cj_leonine]

Originally Posted by KgZ

sometimes I like to imagine there are falling bars when I play piano

don't judge me

Wow Kgz. Just, wow.
(I used to have falling bars when I played chess)

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by KgZ

Correct, which is actually better, because you set your own tempo until you can play it correctly. Also, reading sheet music is so much more easier than reading 32+ notes coming down a screen within a matter of a few seconds. I'm just saying, it's much more fun to actually play the instrument, if it goes so far as to actually simulate it.

Sorry, but I can read graphical images a lot easier than sheet. Don't know what kind of bizarro world you come from where it is easier to read a coded language than look at a graphical picture.

I mean, if the game had like 7 keys like IIDX, I would agree because it simulates it, but not to the degree of realism. Take a look at guitar hero. Obviously you're not playing a real guitar, but it's fun because you don't actually have to practice for years to "play" music, and you can just pick up and play.

Yeah, well, like I said, this thing doesn't even have all the keys that a piano does anyway.

[SethSquall]

I don't know. It's kinda pushing it. The arcade pads are smaller, so it's not like a full keyboard. So I'm guessing that's like double or something?

I love music games to bits but that's made me on the fence about the whole "Play the instrument" argument.

It's just the fact it seems so close to the Piano. But I really wouldn't know.

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by KgZ

Too bad I can do both pretty well, and from experience I can say it's easier to read something on paper than through fast reflexes.

Of course, but most people don't have the skill of reading sheet. Personally, I cannot look at sheet and know which key I need to press for each note. But give me a graphical display and I'd understand it completely.

[thechild]

I read the description and came to the lol realization that is only being played with his right hand because the right hand part is only charted. He could add the left hand part though.

[weeeeeee]

Looool. This game looks amazing, for sure.