Guitar Hero or Keyboard Mania are games that won't teach you to play for real (the two octaves used in Keyboard Mania is not enough). maybe I don't get what's so great about this, it's like trying to read sheet music from a piano roll rotated 90 degrees.
But the app is still only at version 0.6.0, so who knows what will happen in the future! Also some different difficulty levels would be good to have, some of the arrangements require you to play too many notes at the same time. What I miss is a practice mode where you could easily rewind the music to practice a certain part over and over again. Synthesia comes with 10 piano arrangements of game music classics. If you aren't used to playing music from notes but need to see what keys you should press, this application seems to be a perfect way to learn to play any music that you have on a MIDI file! You can alter the speed of the playback to make it easier to practice a certain part. You need to have a MIDI synth to use it, but if you have one, this app has the potential to be useful – something you can't say about Guitar Hero with its mere five buttons! It is a kind of Guitar Hero clone, but for piano. I just got a tip this morning about a program called Synthesia ( ) that I think is a great concept!
