The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly bits of Flowkey. Unbiased Review 2023
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- Is Flowkey @flowkey_DE right for you? I take an honest look at he piano learning app - highlighting
The Best, The Worst, and the Downright Ugly sides of it!
This review doesn't muck about and just gets on with it. It's from a beginner pianists perspective.
00:00 Quick Intro
00:12 The GOOD - Simple & Effective Interface
00:46 Looping Feature
01:15 Top Down View
02:02 Wait Mode
02:53 Single Hand Focus Mode
03:24 Speed Modes
04:41 Range of Pieces to Learn
05:05 Difficulty Ratings in Flowkey
05:51 Full Access Under Trial Version
06:04 The BAD - Short Trial Period
06:35 No Study Plan (if you like that sort of thing)
07:24 Limited Realtime Feedback
08:22 The UGLY Side of Flowkey
10:07 Would I Recommend Flowkey?
Nice job, I have viewed several reviews and you have seemed to hit the key points in about the right amount of time
Thanks. I’m glad people like yourself are finding this review. Encourages me to do more
Great review! Thanks, well done.
Thanks. I haven’t reviewed other apps yet so will look to add more soon
This was very helpful thank you. I would have loved if you included the prices, but interesting commentary on the app. :)
You’re welcome :)
Hello! Thank you for this review! I am also an “older” person learning piano and there r so many apps to choose from. Have you tried Playground Sessions? Im currently using that one but am going to sign up to Flow Key also because of your review! Thanks mate!
Hi! I haven’t heard of it but I can see it there in the App Store. Looks interesting. Tell me one good and bad thing about your experience using it? I will do more reviews on this channel and ask my subs which app to do next. I can add that to the list. Thanks for your feedback. Cheers
Great review of Flowkey , thanks !
Just bought the app to learn and it's super fun as it is very interactive with the note "wait" function and the software gives encouraging and realistic feed-back : such as "not bad, but do it again ... (or) ... Fantastic, you completed the exercise" !
As to the "bad" news from the name borrowed from the famous "Clint Eastwood"western :- ) ... it is true that flowkey does not advertise this limitation but it's not so bad to have incomplete song scores I
I guess because the songs serve as learning steps and because one could find the complete score elsewhere ... most certainly a copyright problem with the various artists that would deserve full royalties for their songs each time it is used. The Beatles may not make claims ... but alive musicians deserve pay for the work and own their intellectual property : artistic work is property for a lifetime apparently. !
What do you think ?
Has it been frustrating not to have the complete song ?
Maybe they could implement a premium plus version with complete songs ... that the customer has to pay an extra buck for !?
I don’t think the incomplete scores is a copyright thing, they are just trying to make some scores a bit easier to learn by making them shorter. If a pro version (on the app) of the song exists the full score is usually there. I don’t like the idea of a premium service. Customers should just pay once. Thanks for your comment :)
thanks ! Yeah, agree that the customer should only have to pay once !
It was just an hypothesis that the shorter song versions ( scores ) are due to copyright problems ... we would have to ask the software company and ask for full versions if possible ?! ; )
Best wishes, Mike
Yeah agree with that. Cheers Mike
I agree the 7 days isn't near long enough for a free trial. It's not like you are going to "learn piano" in a week and then won't need it.
I’m hearing ya. It’s hard to experience all the features in full in such a short time especially if you are juggling job kids etc
I have 35 years of experience playing guitar but now want to learn piano - Would you say this app would be good for someone like me?
That you have 35 years of musical experience is a great platform to learn piano. I was like you in this. Yes this is the right app for you if you want to jump straight in and start playing songs. If you want a refresher on reading music and an app that introduces piano skills more gradually I’d go for Simply Piano instead. Or do simply piano for a year and then switch to flowkey. Let me know how you get on
@@pianocam Thanks for the reply and good advice, I think I will start with flowkey and see how it goes.
As a beginner, one thing I like about Simply Piano is that it's very friendly when it comes to denoting hand positions and fingering in the sheet music. Not really seeing much of that here. Is that something you have the option to turn on and off in Flowkey?
I have same problem jumping from Simply piano to Flowkey, not much fingering at all, just brought a Yamaha piano and got the Flowkey app for 3 month trial, 3 days into it and I am scratching my hand trying to work out which finger to use every time i try the same song again and again. Flowkey needs a function to turn On/Off to give at least some hint of finger number to attract more begginer players. At least for me at the moment no hint of finger numbering, forget about me joining Flowkey for a full year subscription. They do have their PRO, in terms of more variety of sheet music, simply piano was just too simple.
A fair point. I guess flowkey would say you don’t need the numbering because you can just look at the hand positions underneath. But then in the moment this become a bit difficult to do - glancing down all the time.
Why did you decide to switch from simply piano? I’m currently using Simply piano and I’m quite impressed with it. Will look to add a review shortly
@@pianocam I haven't switched yet, because my subscription still has time on it, but in the meantime, I wanted to do some fact-finding. I do like the Simply Piano app, but my dissatisfaction has to do with the various "feature testing" that they do. It's very upsetting to be in the Facebook group and see everyone else posting about the tons of content THEY have that you don't, even though everyone is paying the same subscription price. I find this to be very unfair, and the customer support people acknowledge that it is unfair, but they claim that this is what they need to do in order to make decisions on app content. Even though I like the app, it's not acceptable to be paying for content and not getting it.
Tell me more about this feature testing. Do you know how they select people to test the new features? What would it take for you to become a feature tester for them. Interested because I’m currently writing my review of Simply Piano and I’ll include your experience as part of my review :) Who knows maybe SP will watch the review and change their process
Great app, but I think Simply Piano is better for beginners.
Flowkey and Yousician seem to be a little bit for intermediate players.
I haven’t tried Simply Piano but I’m thinking to give it a go and then post a review
@@pianocam I tried it and I found it fun. I can read the treble clef but I have trouble reading the bass clef. Simply piano made it somewhat easier.
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