The Virtual Piano Thread

Flay

http://www.virtualpiano.net/

Virtual piano is a piano that is virtual. On the internet!

It works by substituting the keys of your keyboard for the different notes, 1 being the lowest and M the highest. Sharps and flats can be achieved using the shift key (for example, P is sharp of p). Ctrl toggles sustained notes on and off. There's also a menu with some more information, features and sheet music.

And you can do things like this:

% * 0 % * 0 % * 0 % * 0 $ * 0 % * 0 $ * 0 % * 0 6 * 0 6 * 0 6 9 Q 6 9 Q $ 8 Q $ * 0 $ * ( $ 8 ( 3 $ * $ * 0 $ * 0 $W *-0 W-$W ( Q $ ( Q $ ( Q $W (-Q W-$W * 0 $ * 0 6$ * Q 6 * Q $W 7 0 $ 7 0 6Q 7 ( 6r 7 ( $0 7 0 $ 7 0 $ 7 0 $ 7 0 5 7 0 5 7 0 5 7

More music in their facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=8151911707


Making music is fun lets make some.

I figured out the first bit of 'windscene' from Chrono Trigger: d-f-gfspd--dspiop-o-u-psf-fgs

Rankenphile

are you ready to experience the extraordinary?

Rankenphile

in this case, extraordinary being a rather mundane piano with an obtuse interface?

are you prepared?

Flay

Koshian wrote: »

can I just play my actual piano instead

No it's not nearly virtual enough.

Belruel

stop being sticks in the mud guys, I think this is rather neat. Unless you can link to a cooler virtual piano rank in which case please share this is fun

Rankenphile

I'm more poking fun at their tagline then the concept

it's a decent website, I'm just crap at music

but I find it hilarious that they bill it by saying "Are you prepared for the extraordinary?"

Dee Kae

I CANT USE SHIFT ON EVERYTHING! THIS IS HORRIBLE!

Belruel

oh did they really? how pretentious of them. this is kind of neat, but not extraordinary. I had a good ole time playing that bit of fur elise on it

Drew-B

Aw, you can't play any chords or anything, huh.

Flay

Drew-B wrote: »

Aw, you can't play any chords or anything, huh.

I can.

EDIT: Hm, not if they involve a combination of sharps/flat and natural notes.

Brolo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT2XgG5BcTg&feature=fvw

okay somebody play this for me

SoaL

i played a shitty sounding mr roboto riff

wheres my money

Drew-B

This is redeemd by the fact that I now realize you can (durrr) copy and paste a string of letters into your address bar and basically be able to play a song with 0 practice due to the ability to simply TYPE

SoaL

and then i tried to freestyle and ended up getting that annoying 'too many keys' keyboard beep over and over

Drew-B

This is kind of funny because whenever I'm teaching someone how to play an instrument and they're getting fed up, I remind them how easily and quickly they can type at rapid speed without thinking...and if they can do that...there's no reason they can't do it on an instrument.

This is pretty much that.

Drew-B

Holy shit I just realized what you mean about the music sheets. They already have a ton of music up to play. THIS IS AWESOME.

Lost Salient

Just playin the Terminator theme to myself

over and over again

forever

Drew-B

The Harry Potter theme is relatively easy to play and sounds very good. Not that any of these are particularly difficult, but they do require you to use a lot of symbols and weird typing patterns that your hands really aren't accustomed to making when typing.

a fu h G fu k ju Gu fu h G Du g aru a fu h G fu k zdyoP L lstiO H ltup k J jITO h fh o fu h kour h kour h lour k Jout G hour k J Pout a kour h kour h kour h zoyE L ltiu H lour k J PITO h fou u0

Kusuguttai

okay i kind have figured out the main thing from up
it goes
gjgf djgs
but i cant figure out the rest

Raneados

i am bad at this

just like regular piano

Kuribo's Shoe

cc

cdcd ee

efef gg

gfedc

I don't know how that translates to this virtual piano but it's the chorus to that free willy theme by michael jackson

Brolo

Raneados wrote: »

i am bad at this

just like regular piano

can you imagine trying to play this on a tablet pc

Retaba

This is pretty fun, plus having the X-files theme is always a good time (for me)! I just need to work out how to properly space out the notes(?) so it sounds like music and not a strange collection of sounds

Kusuguttai

edit:
hella wrong about up score

#pipe

Kusuguttai wrote: »

okay i kind have figured out the main thing from up
it goes
gjgf djgs
but i cant figure out the rest

gjgf gjgd dgds djh djhgd

ghgf fhfs sfsP PsP

pPsdf sdf

repeat

Kusuguttai

i figured that all out just now and was about to post it

thanks for stealing my thunder PIPE

#pipe

man I did it to HELP

pffffft

Kusuguttai

it is telling that it took me a half hour AFTER you posted that to figure it out

+ the time inbetween my post and yours

(i am awful)

i did get the first four right though
no one can take that from me

not even you pipe

#pipe

you're a beautiful unique snowflake kusu

BYToady

Now all they need to do is have a scrolling set of letters you gotta push, a scoring system, and some achievements and we'll have Piano Hero and it'll sell 12 billion copies.

Drew-B

Even though you're being facetious, you are on to something. A full-sized piano would be too difficult of a peripheral to master, but if it were mapped to a keyboard like this...hmmm...

NotASenator

All I'm learning from this is that I might need to recharge the batteries on my wireless keyboard soon.

BYToady

A Piano Hero game would actually be useful to teach piano if done on a full sized keyboard.

Put that reward section of the brain to good use with pretty colors and a soothing voice shouting "High score! Perfect!" and such.

Flight of the Bumblebee on Ultra difficulty will kill people.

Seriously

Well this is neat

except for moonlight sonata, terrible


I can play that better on a real piano (but nothing else)

Flay

BYToady wrote: »

Now all they need to do is have a scrolling set of letters you gotta push, a scoring system, and some achievements and we'll have Piano Hero and it'll sell 12 billion copies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cRw8N8pVU

Drew-B

BYToady wrote: »

A Piano Hero game would actually be useful to teach piano if done on a full sized keyboard.

Put that reward section of the brain to good use with pretty colors and a soothing voice shouting "High score! Perfect!" and such.

Flight of the Bumblebee on Ultra difficulty will kill people.

Lets do it.

Drew-B

Flay wrote: »

BYToady wrote: »

Now all they need to do is have a scrolling set of letters you gotta push, a scoring system, and some achievements and we'll have Piano Hero and it'll sell 12 billion copies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cRw8N8pVU

On second thought...

NotASenator

I don't want to live in a world where I go on youtube and see a video of a full clear for Chopin's Prelude in E-Minor on "CLASSICAL" difficulty.

Belruel

what are you talking about that is exactly the kind of world I want to live in.

Seattle Thread

Hungarian Rhapsody is the new Panic Attack

Ivar

Ugh, this is terrible to play

Can you input notes in any way?