Musiah – Real Piano Lessons

The training provided by Musiah is wonderful, well presented, challenging and I really like the focus on timing and general feedback. Out of all the piano apps I’ve tried (I’ve tried most of them) this seems by far the best teaching tool, at least so far for a beginner like myself. Customer support has also been first class, I’ve been having intermittent issues with the hardware midi interface to my iPad not always being detected correctly by the app and needing to be connected in a specific order, hopefully this is just an issue between my old piano and iPad that will soon be resolved with a new Bluetooth adapter.

Definitely the best piano teaching app I’ve found. Obviously nothing can realistically replace an actual teacher, but I like how this shows ‘sheet music’ on the screen, rather than moving karaoke style notes or the weird block things that some apps use. Everything is broken down nicely, and errors are shown to you. I do find the ‘you played extra notes’ irritating after I’ve stumbled trying to shift positions, but there’s only so much an app can detect. It’s brilliant that you can just end the lesson and opt to practise independently instead before doing the performance/audition.

I love Musiah. I decided to try piano as a complete beginner this summer to give myself a challenge. I bought a digital piano with Bluetooth (mine is the Roland FP10) then subscribed to Musiah on my iPad. I initially took the free trial but found I didn’t want to give up the progress I had made in such a short time. It’s like having Brendan beside you as a teacher as you make your way through the lessons and is much cheaper than paying a private piano teacher. The lessons are fun and put you through your paces while gradually building up your knowledge of how to read music. I do one or sometimes two lessons a day and 2 months later I’m about to start level 3 which I’m quite proud of (as someone who didn’t even know how to sit at a piano 2 months ago, never mind play one!) I know that Brendan has been playing since childhood and teaching for many years so as a primary school teacher I can see that he uses professional methods like gentle encouragement, repetition and revising, and knows when to go back over something if he knows that’s what’s holding you back. It’s all very clever and user-friendly. Thanks Brendan. Go raibh míle maith agat! PS. The Bluetooth connection will always work when you follow this order: 1. Turn on piano 2. Click Bluetooth on your iPad and connect to piano 3. Click Musiah app and off you go! Éamonn. Belfast, Ireland.

They are asking to pay for this. I have a contest tomorrow.

I have used Musiah for a couple of years and really looked forward to the iPad version. Returning to learning the piano as an adult after many years was daunting and I tried several methods. Without doubt Musiah is the best of them and allows you to progress fairly quickly to both read and play music. Although I’m over 50 I enjoy the story version and games of Musiah. I’m just about to try the grown up theme for a while to see how it goes. A huge thank you to Brendan Hogan for creating Musiah and for providing outstanding customer service to resolve technical issues. I almost hope I don’t ever reach the end of the lessons and will no doubt keep coming back to Musiah for many years.

The title says it all. We need more Musiah!

During the pandemic I wanted to learn piano and started with YouTube to figure out the finger movements. Then I decided to take actual lesson. I found myself choosing Musiah because the program started with the basics of learning how to read music. It isn’t flashy but that’s the point. I’ve been with Musiah for over a year now and I just completed level 11. My two girls, who are 5 and 7 have started to take an interest and the kids version is outstanding. Try it and you will see.

In short, Musiah makes learning the piano very enjoyable, even relaxing. Highly recommended.

I was very intrigued and excited when I came across Musiah. I was puzzled as to why there is no independent reviews of the app on YouTube or elsewhere. I decided to try it since there was a trial. This app drills in sight reading but it makes the learning process overall very slow and tedious. It’s lacking images of hand placement, music notation screen size is small, for learning many other apps are quick to get you going with sight reading and playing songs. Musiah seems more focused on making things take more time because the instructions aren’t as intuitive as they could be. As hopeful as I was to love Musiah I simply find myself discouraged by it each time I go in for a lesson. I’m also confused as to where the artificial intelligence is really shining, nothing seems to really adapt to you that much unless you make a lot of errors and then it just repeats to you what was wrong with that pretty much like any video game that has boundaries of what’s correct. Overall I think the app has potential but seems unfinished and more about subscription and hype. Where are the independent reviews just try some google searches, the most you will get is some discussions on forums. Update: There is no independent reviews for Musiah except for what the developer has as links to provide? There isn’t any reviews on YouTube except for what is hosted by Musiah’s account. 16 times faster for learning piano where is the proof of that? Over hyped app, removed another star since the constructive criticism is met with outdated sophistry and logical fallacies as to what Artificial Intelligence means. This app could be really great if it actually had artificial intelligence teaching you, but as with the responses it seems more focused on marketing and getting your subscription than you actually learning piano, just learn it 16 times faster!

Wasn’t able to do anything but here the piano in the settings. Make it clear nothing works unless you subscribe. App deleted.