Bravo! Seeing this app makes me want to get an iPad just to play around with it. Well, almost:
As a fairly serious amateur pianist, I definitely appreciate that this could let me ditch my dusty bookshelf of heavy scores, turn pages for me, and keep track of my location on the page. But the real deal-breaker for me is that it doesn't look like I can annotate the music with fingerings and expressive marks. When first learning a piece I probably spend as much time scribbling on the score [in pencil!] as I do reading it with fingers.
This would still be immensely useful for sight-reading though, where page-turns are a much bigger issue than fingering and expression. But it seems ironic to start out learning a piece with Etude, only to graduate back to paper later.
All in all though, this is some really exciting technology.
Nitpick: the built-in synthesizer seems to have a pretty lazy right foot. Pedagogically speaking it'd actually be better to drop the pedaling altogether rather than obscure the harmony -- make it a setting? Even better: make it respect pedaling marks in the score!
As a fairly serious amateur pianist, I definitely appreciate that this could let me ditch my dusty bookshelf of heavy scores, turn pages for me, and keep track of my location on the page. But the real deal-breaker for me is that it doesn't look like I can annotate the music with fingerings and expressive marks. When first learning a piece I probably spend as much time scribbling on the score [in pencil!] as I do reading it with fingers.
This would still be immensely useful for sight-reading though, where page-turns are a much bigger issue than fingering and expression. But it seems ironic to start out learning a piece with Etude, only to graduate back to paper later.
All in all though, this is some really exciting technology.
Nitpick: the built-in synthesizer seems to have a pretty lazy right foot. Pedagogically speaking it'd actually be better to drop the pedaling altogether rather than obscure the harmony -- make it a setting? Even better: make it respect pedaling marks in the score!