Piano by Heart Strategy

Your Ears, Your Heart and Your Piano

News

Why?

15/07/2024

The project presented here and developed in more aspects is not the reason and the target itself. It was not why I started the journey on this field. It was just a space where it lead me. There were subjects I needed to clarify and solve. As a basis to the real target that I had on my mind at the beginning....

Conclusion

04/08/2023

The reason why this project was created was the fact that although I ackquired some piano education in my childhood, I found my playing abilities not satisfactory and I wanted to improve them. But even after quite a long term search I wasn't able to find any source offering reasonable methodology to advance. So I started this kind...

We just published Piano Trainer ver 1.9. It is available on Downloads page. This release brings a new layer of functionality - a diatonic view at compositions. It is quite a substantial module and there is more to say about it. You can find basic info on the Main Page where links to more detailed descriptions can be found too....

New release of Piano Trainer application has been published. This release can be considered as a technical one. There are some fixes, changes and updates, but at the moment it is not necessary to comment them. In the next release all the news will be presented at once.

We published Piano Trainer ver. 1.7. This version is conceptualy different from the previous ones. Previous Piano Trainer app was targeting to aural learning, what was an experimental concept, but not practical in terms of everyday routine. Using it we gathered interesting and useful findings and could aim the whole project more practical direction...

Does it work?

16/03/2023

Scientists know that each theory has to be proven by practical experiment. We tried applying the theory summarized in the article Musical memory to the 12 pages long

We just published Piano Trainer ver 1.5. It is available on Downloads page. There are improvements / tunings in practicing mode interaction, possibility to Add Comments on Organizing Page was implemented, 'Seamless practicing' possibility was implemented (default mode - learning - is more tolerant at the beginning of each fragment / bar, seamless...

Music is a somewhat elusive thing. When we listen to it, everything seems obvious and nice. When we try to produce it, the situation is different. Performing music is an art (not to mention composing music). There is the aspect of managing the instrument we are playing. Then there are generally two ways of performing. Performing from score sheets...

We just published Piano Trainer ver 1.4 Beta. It is available on Downloads page. No major changes, just some Practicing evaluation tunings have been made so that confirmation tones don't get 'nervous' on some fragments containing repeating tone sequences, fragments block selection algorithm on Organizing page has been tuned a bit, there are some...

We just published Piano Trainer ver 1.3 Beta. It is available on Downloads page. 'Fragment Overview' subpage has been added to the Practicing page. This subpage brings functional visualisation of given Fragment. It can be useful when you need to make more detailed picture of the Fragment learned. This subpage can even bring an alternative way...