iPhone Giveaway of the Day - Pianonome

Pianonome is a patent pending piano-learning platform app for iPad and iPhone. It helps you to have more efficient piano practice sessions. The app using the built-in microphone of your iPad and iPhone, listens to your playing, and tells what notes you played wrong and/or uneven (out of tempo).

Piano teachers and book authors can upload their books or pieces to the platform which you can download from the Pianonome app library.

After installing Pianonome, you first need to tune the app to your piano. Then you are ready to practice the 40 scores that come with the app. You will have a Practicing mode and Evaluation mode. Practicing mode is where you can click the pause button and correct your notes then proceed. In the practicing mode the correctly played note will be colored in blue and once you make a mistake it ill be colored in red and the rhythmic unevenness will be marked with a blue square. Also, there is the evaluation mode where the notes appear on the screen, and the last correctly played note will be colored in blue. Pianonome has an integrated metronome providing visual and audible tempo cues.

For iPhones, you will need headsets for the audible metronome. For iPad, headsets are optional for using the audible metronome.

Make sure the practice room is quiet while tuning the app and practicing, as background noise (for example, talking or music) will degrade the quality of note detection. Remember that Pianonome is listening to your piano using the microphone!

You can find some short video clips explaining how to use the app on our website: http://pianonome.com

Feel free to contact us if you have some questions or comments!