Bob F. is pleased to announce the online publication of his new program, PianoNanny. Aimed at beginning music students worldwide, PianoNanny teaches music notation and keyboard notes using a fun, easy-to-use, interactive drill.PianoNanny displays notes one at a time on the grand staff, and you try to click the corresponding notes on an on-screen keyboard. The program scores you for both accuracy and speed. You can tell PianoNanny which clef(s) to use, as well as whether or not you want to practice accidentals.
Implemented as a Java applet, PianoNanny has been tested in several popular browsers, and runs without problems in most of them. Please submit your bug reports, lavish praise, and suggestions for future revisions as comments to this article.
Anyone who has a MAC - I'd appreciate knowing if PianoNanny runs on your system without you having to install any plug-ins.
ReplyDeleteBob F
Suggestion 1) I suggest changing "test size" to "test length" or "length of test"
ReplyDelete2) Are accidentals implemented yet ?
3) I suggest adding a test size of 10 ... 25 is too long to concentrate !
4) I suggest keeping track of time only on correct answers ... and displaying a percentage of correct answers.
Do you really want more suggestions ? hah
It works great under Google Chrome browser.
So far I can't break it ! (but I will keep trying)