As a professional pianist that's spent the past couple of years obsessing over questions of tempo, breath, phrasing, movement and musicality, this app really tickles my fancy.
Some casual observations:
- As someone who has delved a little in DAWs and working with MIDI, one thing that struck me is when controlling velocity with on a physical, linear scale, exactly how little extra velocity is needed to voice a melody properly. For example, playing Moonlight on my phone, I play the opening notes as quietly as possible and voice the melody by playing a few bare "millimetres" more to voice it.
- It has really forced me to know the music in a different fashion, as a single, additive rhythm as opposed two hands with two independent rhythms. For example, the first few bars when the melody enters in Moonlight sonata: I wasn't sure if I keep the fidelity of the dotted-eighth rhythms verses the triple eighths, or if I turn it into essential a sextuplet.
- I found that some quicker figures, such as the opening of Mozart's "Alla turca" are best achieved by using the actual fingering I would use in the original. At a certain speed, in order to achieve the rhythmic precision required, I had to use piano technique.... on my phone screen.
Some casual observations:
- As someone who has delved a little in DAWs and working with MIDI, one thing that struck me is when controlling velocity with on a physical, linear scale, exactly how little extra velocity is needed to voice a melody properly. For example, playing Moonlight on my phone, I play the opening notes as quietly as possible and voice the melody by playing a few bare "millimetres" more to voice it.
- It has really forced me to know the music in a different fashion, as a single, additive rhythm as opposed two hands with two independent rhythms. For example, the first few bars when the melody enters in Moonlight sonata: I wasn't sure if I keep the fidelity of the dotted-eighth rhythms verses the triple eighths, or if I turn it into essential a sextuplet.
- I found that some quicker figures, such as the opening of Mozart's "Alla turca" are best achieved by using the actual fingering I would use in the original. At a certain speed, in order to achieve the rhythmic precision required, I had to use piano technique.... on my phone screen.