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Learn Piano like Simon Says! Visualize the color of sound to improve memory recognition. Learn scales, chords, inversions & more!
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Color Piano is an educational application that utilizes colors in teaching piano theory, creating a visual interface for learning the keyboard; learn how to play songs on the piano without learning sheet-music! CPT ties together chords, scales, inversions, octaves, key signatures, and play-by-play examples of classical compositions.
Getting your feet wet with Color Piano;
- Drag & Drop MIDI files into your browser to view/play them in CPT. MIDIs that you Drag & Drop should be of Piano only (not multi-instrumentals).
- Configure the Piano to play slower to get started learning a new song, then slowly increase the speed as you get better.
- Use your MouseWheel or the ScrollBar on the right to scroll through the song you're currently learning, and to go back and replay parts your having troubles with.
Why in color? Good question;
To improve memory recognition, colors are mapped to the sounds on the keyboard, creating a synesthetic experience. By picking a color-mapping that works best for you, these colors will give you a visual cue to the note you’re playing.
One way to memorize information is to give the information multiple associations; in turn giving the information multiple “pathways” for the brain to locate it. With color added to the mix, we are building a memory recognition triangulation: sound (measured in hz), color (in RGB), and space (the XY coordinate of key on the keyboard).
Historic mapping of color to sound;
The earliest known reference to the idea of mapping colors to sound came in 1704 by Issac Newton according to Fred Collopy author of Three Centuries of Color Scales.
This leads me to a question brought to me recently, “Why do so many of these people associate ‘red’ with ‘C’, ‘orange’ with ‘D’, ‘yellow’ with ‘E’, ‘green’ with ‘F’ and so on?” My best guess is many of these calculations were based on mappings to the rainbow, aka the visible spectrum; where ’C’ in western music has been historically thought of as a grounding, base note, the color ‘red’ is the smallest frequency interval (or longest wavelength) in the rainbow.
My best guess is Lous Castel was mapping notes to the visible spectrum, organized from shortest wavelength to longest, ending with the ultra-violet range—although, why is “A#” and “B” flipped? Perhaps a sign of dyslexia? Alexander Schriabin declared that ”D#” sounds “steely with the glint of metal”, and ”E” sounds “pearly blue the shimmer of moonshine”, and who can argue with that? What does sound look like to you?
VERSION
2.1—1/6/13
* Download links on MIDIs.
* Circle of Fifths Synesthesia modes.
* Cache MIDIs in FileSystem for quicker loading.
2.0.0–9/22/12
* 2,000 MIDI songs from Disklavier.
* MIDI-browser w/ search engine.
1.5.1–4/23/12
* Previous + next song buttons.
* Faster rendering. Fix bugs in Chrome 18.
* Play + Theory modes.
1.4.2–12/23/11
* Load MIDI from remote URls in configure pane.
* Improved MIDI reproduction.
1.3.8–12/18/11
* Speed controls, and ability to scroll through midi.
* Steinway grand piano synth.
1.3.0–12/11/11
* Tie into Web Audio API for more accurate playback in Chrome.
* Tie into localStorage to save settings.
* Preview notes before they happen.
1.2.0–12/6/11
* Using base64 soundfonts.
* Now displays all 88-keys of a standard piano.
* Watch notes falling towards the keys before the note plays!
1.1.0–11/27/11
* HTML5 <audio> is used for sound-output.
* Color Piano Theory is available on the Chrome Webstore.
1.0beta
* MIDI-reading support via Matt West‘s very kindly provided jasmid project.
* Royalty free classical piano pieces from Disklavier World.
Latest reviews
- (2023-12-05) N_Viofile: I remember this being on my old computer when I was a kid and I would just play one song with it. Its no longer runnable on windows so I can't it use it anymore
- (2020-10-13) M.K. Farhan: I dont know why? but Acoustic Keyboard isn't the thing I like..... I wish there was way by which we could bring back the v1 with real piano sounds rather than this acoustic keyboard type.... if possible i request you humbly to make a v3 which has both keyboard and real piano sounds in it.....
- (2020-08-30) M: i dont like it i dont like the songs plus you cant even make a song with it.
- (2020-08-17) selu tufi: because i can't play the key's
- (2019-08-03) 3at_my_4ss Killa_Queen_Squad: My Music Theory teacher took this app into consideration after I introduced it to him. My one complaint is that I can't listen to the song after I download it.
- (2019-05-06) Kaya Lindsay: It was okay, I thought you would be able to actually play the piano, and not really too helpful, had little songs of my liking, and small to chose from, but it was a very nice app overall
- (2018-05-15) Heather Morgan: HORRID
- (2017-11-30) Kimberly Varner: doesnt work any more!!! otherwse id say 5 star
- (2017-11-03) Miah Tomlinson: Love it :-)
- (2017-10-19) Ashton Vallejo: i only wanted it to play my midi files, and it couldn't do that
- (2017-09-30) Aletheran Caspar: Thank you so much for this!
- (2017-07-18) Sage: it's awesome for listening to piano music but I don't see how to learn how to play the piano with it
- (2017-04-20) Yuki: amazing
- (2017-02-18) Alice Jordan: No rhyme or reason as to where keys are found on my keyboard. I liked the color and being able to anticipate sound as if opening a music box.. but no help in actually learning to play.
- (2016-12-28) Tom Kruz: the best for first contact ! Debussy, Claude - Suite Bergamasque <3!
- (2016-11-22) TheXoro2: HORRIBLE == Waste of space and time. seriously bad. disappointed. Couldnt even change the song lol. i dont get why people rate this so high.
- (2016-10-13) Ace Farrar: OH MY EFFING GOD. I love it.
- (2016-09-30) Brett Bergan: Great App! This reminds me of Cakewalk back in the day, but simpler to use. Phenomenal song database. One possible future upgrade could be a zoom feature so that users could use the middle two or three octaves on a touchscreen. Rock on!
- (2016-07-31) Rajarshi Rit: This was my favorite app, but recently I could not play it at all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Loading Web API wheel rotating on and on and on. I uninstalled and then re-installed the app, but still not working.
- (2016-07-12) JOSEPH FERNANDES: Good App....
- (2016-07-03) phoebe: It was going to fast but I could learn it!!!!!!!!!!
- (2016-07-02) L Quinn: Extremely glitchy. Not only could I not open the settings, it didn't tell you which keys went to which notes. Also, when I did figure out which went to which (after much trial and error) it seemed to be an illogical mess as to where the next key would be. Not to mention the doubles of many notes, whilst others were missing altogether.
- (2016-06-18) Juan: very good
- (2016-05-29) baconprison s: works well but for playing it the keys make no sense and you can't change the controls
- (2016-05-07) Archaelia (Jordan Ildaeinn Lawrence): Love this app! One thing that would make this a 5-star app for me would be the ability to custom-set your synaesthetic color-matrix. Like, keep the ones you've got and are working on but add a "Custom..." at the end? It would be so miraculous. I've been doing my own frequency/wavelength spectrum equivalency research, and I've found through my own and other's work that the most accurate SynProfile you have is Steve Zieverink's, with only minor errors. So that is the one I use but it isn't mathematically consistent.
- (2016-05-05) ArsonnFrog: I cant play songs I like
- (2016-04-10) Yessenia Calderon: it make me get calm
- (2016-04-08) Nelly: awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
- (2016-04-07) kittywerecat diabolik lover fan: its great
- (2016-04-04) Autumn Reddingius (Ceriwyn): Ugh, Idk what key to press so it's bad >:(
- (2016-04-02) tnt2005: i like this app because it plays music that i want it
- (2016-03-06) Kennedy Gerber: Bad
- (2016-01-30) Mostafiz Rahman: best in it's type!!
- (2016-01-27) James Wright: Needs to support opening/playing arbitrary MIDI files on Chrome Book.
- (2016-01-03) Will Caine: I have been searching for ages and this the best keyboard I have ever seen I will definitely tell all of my friends
- (2016-01-02) Eve Gorman: I hate it
- (2015-12-10) Russta Leader: Good...but where is external MIDI keyboard support?
- (2015-11-13) David B. “Good Clean Fun” Slatton: I'm only using it to listen to all the classical songs(through a head-set).This may be the best extension/app on the entire web.I begin by listening to Beethoven.There are approximately two that wouldn't play out of the 90+ songs that I've listened to so far.That's no big deal really.It's beyond words what this musically gifted genius gave to people who love music.I hope I get through every one of the 2,000 songs by all the composers....And all on an acoustic piano (MIDI).What a treat !
- (2015-11-13) Saiful Anwar: good...
- (2015-11-07) Enigma: Really noice!
- (2015-10-31) Chris Spears: either its me or it actually takes a long time for it to load :/
- (2015-10-23) soooooo horid
- (2015-10-22) Lin K: So perfect in so many ways. I've been exceedingly impressed with this app, perfect for those with musical experience. It gave me exactly what I was looking for even before I knew what I was looking for. A++ <3
- (2015-10-15) Trung Tâm Triển Lãm Mô Hình - DIECAST SHOW - REVIEW: Thanks !!
- (2015-09-28) john rodriguez: REALLY GOOD
- (2015-09-24) Zaine Hensley: terrible.
- (2015-09-15) John Roblin: A lovely app for what it does and for free too of course. Doesn't support the dragging and dropping of MIDI files in ChromeOS but that's probably a limitation of the OS itself. There's also the issue of it being hard to see on smaller displays hence only 4/5 stars.
- (2015-09-14) Navi Igoy: Nice, i know that hard to make this app. but please make it easy to use and learn
- (2015-08-27) GodlyPudding: i couldn't upload my midi files and that was the whole reason i got this app, It looked to be the closest thing to synthisia. But it still wasnt awful
- (2015-08-13) Kassidy Simmons: the freaking thing sucks..