Best Apps for playing the piano and learning the piano

There are some on smartphones applications that can help us play the piano, free. These apps that not only allow you to create melodies and play on the screen, but are valid helpers for learning to play, with guided instructions and interactive tutorials.

Obviously, they cannot replace the lessons of a teacher but perhaps to start without too much effort or to integrate the lessons or even just to not miss training they could really be ideal. The good thing about learning piano notes on phones and tablets (where they work best) is that the flat surface can easily be doubled with a digital keyboard.

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1) Simply Piano

Simply Piano (Android e iPhone) is one of the best-known apps in the piano world and is perfect for beginners. The app lets you choose your piano skill level, so you can tell if you’re starting from scratch or already have some experience. After selecting your options, you can take learning courses starting from the basics, up to more advanced lessons that will be unlocked as you progress.

You will therefore be able to learn to play some of the most famous songs and follow interactive sessions with videos. Although the app is free, some of the content is paid and it takes a monthly subscription to unlock all the courses.

Locked features include learning and playing music, learning sheet music, and custom piano exercises. If you really want to learn to play the piano on your own, this app should really work.

2) Perfect Piano

Perfect Piano (Android – iPhone) is a really great application, which works as a digital keyboard for free playing.

You can choose the type of piano to play and focus on a particular part of the keyboard to be able to play the right notes. If you have multiple smartphones, you can also place them next to each other to have the complete piano keyboard.

Unlike Simply Piano, you can try the songs for free and, depending on your experience level, the app allows you to choose between Easy, Medium and Hard levels.

3) Piano Chords and Scales

Piano Chords and Scales (Android – iPhone) is an app for beginners that helps you understand musical structures from scratch, learn notes and chords, and practice them at the same time.

The only problem is that the keyboard is a little too small for people with thick fingers, unless you use a tablet of at least 10 inches (better if 11 or higher, so you can press all the keys well on the keyboard).

4) Yousician Guitar, Piano & Bass

Yousician Guitar, Piano & Bass (Android – iPhone) is an app that allows you to learn to play the piano, guitar or other instruments.

As for piano lessons, you can start from the basics or go for an intermediate course. Beginners can start by practicing playing with their thumb and forefinger and learn the right keys to press on the keyboard aided by the keys that are colored differently.

Even though the app is among the best ever, it continually pushes to update the paid version, giving a bit of disruption.

5) FlowKey

FlowKey (Android – iPhone) is a very powerful application, which allows you to start learning the piano or improve your skill, with interactive lessons.

The app works as a guide to playing on a real piano or keyboard and by using the phone’s microphone it can understand if you are playing correctly. This application had already been reported in the past, among the best sites with online piano lessons, free and interactive.

Other apps to learn to play the piano

1) Gismart plan (Android – iPhone) is a fun game, much celebrated and appreciated, which allows you to have fun and also learn to play. The games are guided by lessons which ultimately allow you to learn how to read scores and notes and how to press the right keys by making even complicated chords.

2) Piano Yokee (Android – iPhone) is another excellent application for learning to play, where you can follow the most famous classical music melodies by following the keys to play on the screen. Part game and part music teacher, this free application has everything you need to learn.

3) Piano Academyjust for iPhone is dedicated to interactive piano learning sessions, which gives immediate feedback on your pianist skills. You can learn music theory and then also chords, reading scores and memorizing the notes to play.

4) Pianist HD (Android), unlike all other piano apps, it has no fixed instructions and you can play by following the indicated notes and the colored keys, without necessarily going fast, but also slowly. This piano app has 128 MIDI musical instruments, over 12 sampled voices, 88-key piano keyboard, 12 different piano keyboards and other musical instruments, including organ, digital piano, harpsichord, accordion, electric guitar, harp, cello.

5) Magic Piano by Smule (Android – iPhone), we mention it even though it is not an app for learning or even for playing the piano on your smartphone, but a nice, fast and fun game where you have to touch the right points on the screen following the rhythm of the songs you listen to. It is certainly one of the games most loved by young people also because the songs are the first in the charts by famous artists.

Conclusions

With a simple app we can learn to play the piano even just for fun, without expecting to become the new Mozart. The apps shown are simple to use and, making the most of the size of the new smartphones and tablets, allow you to play any type of melody, even inventing new melodies from nothing.

For further information we can read the guide to best music games for Android and iPhone.