Piano Hero: Learn to play piano, have fun?

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Piano Hero: Learn to play piano, have fun?

by Jordan Running (RSS feed) Jan 22nd 2007 at 4:55PM

I took piano lessons for a couple years when I was a kid. I never became a virtuoso, but maybe if I had had Piano Hero I could have. It's an open source edutainer in the mold of Guitar Hero and the like, except with a piano instead of a guitar. It's a bit rough around the edges and definitely doesn't have the eye candy appeal of its console brethren, but if you want to improve your real piano skills (rather than your fake guitar skills), it might be right up your alley. Piano Hero works with any MIDI music file you throw at it, but currently it doesn't sync up to a MIDI keyboard--that feature will come with the 0.5.0 release promised later this month. Until then you'll just have to play along and pretend.

The Piano Hero web site seems to be sputtering a bit just now, but you can download the program for Windows from SourceForge.

Tags: guitar hero, GuitarHero, learn, midi, music, open source, OpenSource, piano, piano hero, PianoHero

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

JD said 7:46PM on 1-22-2007

I downloaded it and cant seem to make it work, It runs but i cant hear anything. Plz help.

Jutendouji said 2:08PM on 1-23-2007

JD, I think that you can't actually PLAY the game. If you set the tracks to "You Play" mode, then Piano Hero ignores them and you are supposed to be playing them on your REAL piano, not with a keyboard. I know, it's really weird.

Ananda said 11:16PM on 1-23-2007

Im soo excited about this! I hope this will take off and become a great way to practice piano.

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