Flowkey offers a comprehensive piano instruction program, designed to help anyone at any experience level learn or improve upon their piano skills.

Everyone Loves the Piano

Piano is a fundamental instrument. Children across the world have spawned decades of music knowledge and understanding just from sitting down at piano and learning from a helpful instructor at the right age with the right amount of enthusiasm. Piano lessons can have a transformational effect on learners of any age and skill level. It’s never too late to learn how to play music.

Before the internet, of course, piano lessons were difficult to access. You needed money to pay an instructor, and you had to have a physical piano. Now, with YouTube instructors giving advice for free, websites to connect instructors and learners and the ability to play the “piano” using only your computer keyboard or iPad touch screen, learning the fundamentals of music has never been easier.

Along Comes Flowkey…

With Flowkey, it’s never been better. The site is designed to help anyone at any experience level learn or improve upon their piano playing skills. The program works by listening to you as you play using your computer’s built-in microphone. Flowkey acknowledges when you’re hitting the right notes and when you’re hitting the wrong ones, and offers explanation as to how you can correct your mistakes and play better. The microphone technology also allows Flowkey to listen to your tempo, which it adjusts to and matches based upon how you’re playing.

Within a matter of minutes, you can set up a Flowkey account for free and begin playing along to songs. Each song is color-coded based on its level of difficulty, so you can be sure that you’re starting in the right spot. When you actually do start a song, the equivalent of a digital instructor plays along with you. Each note that you hit is clearly displayed on a visual keyboard, so you can know exactly what you’re supposed to be doing. There’s also the option to read along to sheet music beneath that visual keyboard, so you can learn to read music as you’re learning to play songs.

Piano Playing Made easy… and fun!

The fact that Flowkey allows beginners to dive right in and begin playing songs is what separates it from other piano instruction programs or even traditional piano lessons. There are also several other tools that are easy-to-use but greatly improve the learning experience. If you’re stuck on a particularly difficult section, for instance, you can click a button to loop that section and practice it over and over again until you nail it. You can also pause and restart songs, or jump around the sheet music to find the spot you’re looking for. It’s an intuitive interface, which is surprising considering how powerful the tools offered actually are.

Although there are other advanced websites for music instruction, Flowkey is the most well-designed program for learning piano. You can practice songs by Coldplay, Mozart, Bob Dylan and a variety of other artists. As long as you have a piano, you can start learning how to use it with Flowkey. It’s also free to use up to a certain point, so it’s definitely worth giving a try.