Flowkey — Learn Piano with the Songs You Love| Music Tech Alliance

We often called piano is the king of instruments which have wide pitch range also used in playing solo or melodic roles and as accompaniment instruments. It is the first priority for many parents let their children learn to play an instrument.

Along with the rise of hardware and software development, there are more and more learning piano software in the market. This post I want to introduce the Flowkey software developed by Flowkey company in Berlin.

Flowkey was launched in 2015 and quickly became a global success with millions of users. In 2020, Flowkey starts to exploit Asian market by translating its content into Chinese.

Learn Piano with the Songs You Love

The slogan of Flowkey is “Learn piano with the songs you love”. You can realize Flowkey focusing on “song” and “fun”. For anyone wants to learn piano by their favorite songs, this is what you need.

Its interface has great aural and visual design which makes you lean efficiently, make you enjoy the fun of playing piano and gaining the motivation of learning.

Flowkey has web app, iOS App and Android App, you can learn piano by computers, laptops and mobile phones.

Flowkey — Helpful Interface Makes You Learn Better

Piano fingering is one of the most crucial aspects of learning piano, yet it is among the most overlooked. Flowkey grapples with the issue through recording the video of playing full song being great reference for users. Like this picture below, you can watch the piano fingering clearly.

I think the key feature of piano softwares is correcting problem of hitting wrongs notes on a piano for beginners. Assisting them to play great and follow up the follow the tempo of the beat.

Wait Mode of Flowkey

When you practice a song in Flowkey software, you will see a play button and two icons of left hand and right hand. When you click the icon of left hand or right hand, it activates the key feature of “wait mode” of Flowkey.

In wait mode, you have to play right piano key and move forward to next note, Flowkey detects the notes you play via the microphone of your iPad and guides you through each song with interactive feedback.

Clicking the playing bar below to switch the part of song you want.

It is important process for me to understand every note I play, I am not just learn to remember the position of piano keys.I get to know the motive and composition of music which becomes my music inspiration.

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And the icons of left hand and right hand provide you select a hand learning right and left hands separately. When you are great to play one hand perfectly, you can practice two hands at the same time.

Loop Function for Master Tricky Parts

A typical song structure includes a verse, chorus, and bridge in the following arrangement: intro, verse — chorus — verse — chorus — bridge — chorus — outro. This is known as an ABABCB structure, where A is the verse, B is the chorus and C is the bridge.

When I practice a song, I often separate into different parts according to song structure. In Flowkey, you can click the “loop button” to select the part you want to practice. Gradually you’ll be familiar with every part of song, even spend more time on the difficult part you play bad.

Click the “loop button” like left picture and then, select the part you want to loop like right picture.

Step-by-Step Piano Courses

For beginners, Flowkey not only has the songs you love, there are great fundamental courses teaching newbies like me. I can learn basic knowledge of how to sit comfortably at the piano, reading sheet music, masting chords and playing scales.

The audio tracks of Flowkey videos includes English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The subtitles of Flowkey videos includes English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean.

There are many short and great videos complying with immediately practice. In comparison with other online piano videos, Flowkey’s videos are international piano lessons with multi-language subtitles. Every video is elite and short to watch when you commute to work or go to school.

Not only videos, there are etudes helping you practice.

There are almost 1500 piano songs in different kinds of music genre. Except for classic music, piano sheet is created by composers in Flowkey. Sometimes I take Flowkey as piano version of Spotify when I just want to listen piano performance.🤣

Flowkey provides 7-day free trial. It’s a great chance to experience. If you don’t cancel during 7 days, Apple and Google will automatically subscribes.

Flowkey premium members has 3 pricing options as below:

• $19.99 per month
• $12.99 per month (3 month commitment)
• $9.99 per month (12 month commitment)

I think the pricing is worth and the learning method is adaptive to me. Welcome to start your music journey with Flowkey.