Hey, how’s it going Undertow?
I love video games and I also love music.
But surprisingly enough, I’m not like a huge guitar hero, rock band fan.
Maybe that’s not all that surprisingly really, but I am a big fan of this iPhone app from
Smule, it’s Magic Piano!
Magic Piano is an app that allows you to play the piano to the tune of most anything you
can think of.
Classical Bach, Chart topping Bruno Marz songs and just about everything else in between.
You choose your song and tap the screen to play the notes, aiming for little green and
yellow dots.
Time them right and within close enough proximity, and get your points.
Now the game feature of this app is more recent.
Initially, you just play songs without any points or objectives just for the fun of making
some music.
You could share it on Facebook or Twitter, but beyond that, that was about it.
I enjoyed the app so much that had planned on reviewing it before all the new features
were even added.
Now it even has a game mode with points, objectives, achievements and levels.
I’m pretty impressed with the music selection available.
Practically every taste of music could be satisfied with Magic Piano.
And of course what I’d like to point out to you guys is a pretty good selection of
music from video game titles.
Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, gaming's most famous and classic scores can be played on
the Magic Piano.
The arrangements are well composed, if a little difficult at times...
But luckily you can choose your difficulty setting and switch it out of game mode, back
to classic mode which will allow for the perfect-pitch option which lets you just go crazy and rock
out to some Castlevania 3 jams.
Functionality-wise, Magic Piano flows pretty well, but I do experience some hick ups every
now and then.
If there’s just too many notes getting hit at once it will lag a bit, not very often,
but every once in a while.
So there’s green and yellow dots, green dots being a single key on the piano, and
yellow being chords.
Depending on your difficulty setting and the song you may need to tap with multiple fingers
for each chord.
I found detection on this not always the most accurate... or maybe I just suck at it...
I don’t know...
The app is free which is always a huge plus for a great game in my opinion.
But In order to get all the songs you want you’ll need to spend smoola, the app’s
currency.
You can pay real money for this and it is relatively inexpensive.
However, there are a couple of really nice features, one of which allows for earning
free smoola and also they do have a free song everyday that you can download.
So after a week or two you will have a decent repertoire of songs to pick from without having
to spend any moola for some smoola.
So definitely check out Magic Piano, rock out to some Mega Man or Mario or Mozart!