In first grade, my daughter started taking 30 min of piano lessons per week as one of her schools’ extracurriculars. By the end of the year, she had beautiful technique, but could only barely play short simple songs (<30 seconds) with slow quarter notes. My husband and I are musically inclined (we play drums/bass guitar/cello for fun at a pretty high level, but know little about piano and weren’t totally thrilled about her liking piano). But bc she likes it, we support it. About 6 weeks ago, in the summer between 1st and 2nd grade, she really missed going to piano class so I got her this app. WOW. It was like pouring GASOLINE on a FIRE. She became ADDICTED to the app and piano (we now give her a 1 hour piano time limit on weekdays and 2 hours on weekends— otherwise she’d do nothing but play piano). She is now playing longer songs (>3 min) with 16th notes. She just saw her piano teacher for the first time this year (she’s now in 2nd grade), and she was in disbelief how much she has improved. The app has limitations (I think my daughter having a foundation in piano really made this work), but wow has it been a game changer. It took her all year to go through a few pages in her fundamental piano book, she’s now ripped through the first two books in her first 2 weeks back at school. She’s now able to play things by ear, sight read like it’s nothing, etc. I don’t think this app would have been as successful with her not knowing the fundamentals, but wow, so grateful how happy it’s made her.
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your daughter's piano journey with the app (you and your husband's music background is super impressive as well by the way 🔥). We're really excited for your daughter and how much better she'll be. Perhaps a 3-piece band in the future?! 🤔 But seriously, this is truely awesome. If you could share your insight on what could improve the app, we'd really appreciate it. 🙏 You could reach out to us through the app or via email at Piano@hellosimply.com. 😊