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Danielle and family
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2015
I purchased this for my 6 year old ( who wanted to learn piano) and hooked her midi piano up to the laptop. She loves it! We are all ready on lesson 20. She asks to do a lesson all the time and keeps practicing what she has learned when not hooked up. I do sit with her for the short 5 minute lesson, but after that she just loves practicing the new technique she learned. It is easy to follow and for $25, it beats expensive beginner piano lessons. We sit down 1-2 times a week for her lesson, and when she finishes MY PIANO and wishes to continue, I will then invest in a teacher to take her further. But for a beginner, this DOES work and teaches them well.
Jay
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2014
This product didn't work. It didn't load properly. I couldn't use it because there was a defect in the product.
robin
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2013
Used it to keep my child from being bored with traditional music classes. She is four and loves it. Simple to use.
Gabriel's Buddy
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2013
I was very disappointed in this software, which I bought as a supplement to my 8yo son's lessons. We have a Clavinova, so we were able to hook up the MIDI features, but they didn't help much.What I didn't like:- The "games" are not interesting and very short. I had thought this would help my son learn the notes on the staff, but the games have only 5 tries at any one thing. That is to say, if the game is to learn the keyboard notes, 5 notes will float across the screen as balloons one at a time, you hit the corresponding key, and then the "game" is over (weather or not you get them wrong or right). Then onto the next lesson.- Starts teaching on the black keys. This is contrary to every other method I've ever seen and feels wrong to me. It is as if there are only 5 keys in the scale. Then the introduce songs that are hard to play because there is little instruction, it is unclear you are supposed to use the black keys, and there is not a staff or hint of a staff to be clear if the notes are one or two steps apart.- Ancient feel of the softwareThe animated character is just a piano with a mouth that tells you what to do next. It doesn't participate in the lesson. The lessons themselves are live, but you have to start them yourself and they aren't well integrated into the lesson. You could easily skip them by accident.- Piano playing scoring is arbitrary. I can play the example song terribly and still get an 50%, then play it perfectly and only get an 80%. It is a bit hard to be pressing the start button and then get your hands in the right place, and even when you do, it isn't a rewarding experience. I think the capabilities are for when computers were a decade older than they are now.Overall this seems out of date, does not engage my child, and teaches in a method that is different than most experts use. There isn't enough here to have your child learn piano using the software alone and it is different enough to not be a useful supplement.(One example, and I don't know what is standard, but our piano book has the right hand with the thumb on middle C, the left hand then has its thumb on the B below middle C, so that finger 5 of the left hand is on "e". The software has both thumbs sharing middle C, so all the fingering lessons don't work for us. Again, I don't know what is standard, but I prefer what my son's book teaches.)
K. Pack
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2013
I am mad! I paid 18 dollars and something for this product and I got sent an EMPTY BOX!!!!! And, to top it off.... looking at the box and specs... It is not even what I ordered. I need one that works with Windows 7 (which the product description says), and this does NOT!. The picture on the box is not even the same as the picture on the product I ordered!!!!You need to fix this!
somecoder
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2011
This version of My Piano is made for Power PC (older) Macs. So on a newer Intel-based mac it requires the optional Rosetta component to be installed. That works on OSX 10.6 and lower but Apple dropped support for Rosetta on OSX Lion. There may be a new version coming avail if you check the emedia website. The Windows version should work on all versions of windows but I haven't tried it yet.
ajk
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2011
for the price it cant be beatthe songs are great for a child, the instruction is a bit wierd until you get used to it but its greatwe are using it with wii rock band keyboard and a midi to usb cable also bought from amazonthis will provide hours upon hours of quality time
Bubblefishes
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2011
This software is okay, but not as great as I thought it would be. I've always wanted to learn to play and have a background in choir, so I know music already. It's been great for teaching me piano. However, I was also hoping to have my 5 year old start using it as well. I liked that it offered feedback for wrong notes, etc. The problem is, you have to be able to fully read to use it. It reads part of the lesson to you, but not all of it, so you have to look at the screen and read the rest of the instructions/information. I realize it says it's for ages 6 and up, but you know sometimes things can be used by competent kids who are younger. Not this product. In fact, I think it even went a bit fast for me (a 31 year old with a bit of a music background). It says you can go back and practice things if you haven't mastered them yet, but I don't think a kid would really catch that. This definitely needs to be used with adult supervision so you can guide them along.Another thing I wasn't overjoyed about is how much I had to go back and forth between the keyboard and the computer/mouse. It's a bit awkward.Overall, I think it does a good job at teaching (I haven't gone through the whole program yet). But it's definitely something you can't just turn your kids lose with and expect them not to get frustrated. So be ready to spend a lot of time sitting with them and guiding them through it. Good quality time :-)
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