McCarthy Music’s new Illuminating Piano connects to an iPad or Windows machine, tightly integrating with a custom app to help aspiring pianists learn to play at their own pace. Wait, which piano key ...

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With light-up LED keys and app-enabled smarts, the One Smart Piano connects with your phone or tablet to teach you how to play it. Ry Crist Former Senior Editor / Reviews - Labs Originally hailing ...

Simply Piano has long been a hit app in my household. My daughter never really showed interest in learning to play our keyboard until she came across Simply Piano on her iPad. I think it’s the first ...

Remember Tom Hanks playing the light-up keyboard in the movie Big? The McCarthy Music Illuminating Piano scales that concept down to finger-size, and adds a learning feature for those times when your ...

Learning to play the piano is hard. I know; I’ve been trying for almost a year, and wrote an article on my process and struggles a few months ago. Not surprisingly, there are to a myriad of apps, ...

This story is part of a series on how we learn—from augmented reality to music-training devices. Alex Zhang is shredding on the piano. He sits at a shiny black Steinway grand and rocks back and forth ...

We've seen a few learning systems that help students to learn at their own pace by having them follow lights to form chords on a guitar or nail songs on a piano keyboard. The latest from Yamaha to do ...

It's not enough anymore to simply cram a single-octave keyboard into the bottom of a Nintendo DS, effective piano instruction requires at least twice as many keys -- and an iPad. The Ion Piano ...