Basic Piano App

Excellent app. Fun and effective way to play the piano by ear. All of our students are exposed to this and have improved. Noticed if you get in touch with the developers and ask for specific songs they will listen.

Piano Melody Free offers various options to increase difficulty such as displaying note count, name on note, highlighting the note, etc. It does not offer instruction, but rather a means to practice the notes, or watch the song played. While I like the app and will use it, it is not very helpful in my current educational setting.

I am a classically-trained pianist, former K-8 music teacher, and piano instructor. This app claims to teach users how to play by ear. However, there is no guided instruction built into the app. Users just "play" along with lighted keys. The app only indicates the melody of a song and I question the accuracy of the interpreted melody in several of the tunes I tried. For example, for Adele's "Someone Like You", the app "teaches" the piano ostinato, not the song's melody. The classical "melodies" are almost unrecognizable. Piano Melody Free is not an educational app and I'm surprised Graphite even reviewed it in the first place. Not only would I not recommend it to other teachers, I would caution my music students to avoid this app.