I took some piano lessons as a kid and played for a few years. But I was never excited nor did I practice much. And, honestly wasn’t very good to at playing the piano. Forward 35 years (in the midst of Covid 19), I had an intense desire to play the piano. And I had the time to learn and practice! I purchased an electric piano online and downloaded Simply Piano. I realized as I went though lessons that I was relearning everything. And they do such a nice job of keeping me engaged. I was enjoying it! So much that I started to look forward to learning new lessons, which opened up more music to practice and etc. As much as I love classical music, learning and practicing modern songs that I quite well has been really fun. I can’t wait to learn the next set. And I can’t wait to get further along in the lessons to play more complex versions. The app isn’t perfect, sometimes I get frustrated when the app dings me for playing the wrong chord or tempo- when I am sure I didn’t. And it takes forever to get through it. But at the same time I guess I am getting practice... With that said, I do miss having real time feedback from a piano teacher and hope to hire one when it’s safe to do so! But bottom line is that even though the app does have an expensive subscription fee, I think it’s absolutely worth every penny. Thanks for helping me find my passion in piano!

This app is great for people who are new and willing to play piano, it gives great step by step, reminders and an amazing list of songs. The problem for me, is that I want to skip the basics because I am already in 4 years of piano so I had to go over the basics and waste 10 minutes just to unlock the songs. Also, I know that simply piano adds songs every week but right now I’m on the 7 free day trial thing so I can’t really try out the new songs, but please add an advanced section because everything is not my level, it’s too easy. I understand that this is a paid app because it easily helps beginners form their journey to become a great pianist, but other people have been reviewing bad ratings because it is paid, and they want it free - I kinda agree but it’s also kinda worth it. I don’t want to be harsh but if simply piano doesn’t add harder songs, I’ll probably delete the app so that means this company will make a bit less money because I was actually expecting more and already planning to pay for the app, but I think I might’ve changed my mind. PLEASE TRY TO ADD SONGS MORE OFTEN! Even though I do know that songs take a while to make, just even 1 new song everyday will make a change. If this updates, I will pay and give it a full rating. Please know that I am actually giving out my personal opinion and how you can make it better, and that it’s actual advice if you want to improve the app.

This app really shines for the first third or so of its courses. After that, things really begin to take a dive in quality as they lose sight of how to actually teach and prepare you for the piano. After a certain point, they stopped caring about lessons taking time to sink in. With song after song they skip over crucial steps: they introduce a part of the song to learn and then immediately move on, leaving me with absolutely no muscle memory as to what I should do. The last three songs they’ve introduced a treble section and then just assumed that I knew the song at this point. This was fine when the songs were easy, but with a difficult piece, it’s a demoralizing disaster. One thing this app does is it has a library of sheet music, which is excellent, but their actual course has gotten so bad that the sheet music has become a far better tool for learning and improving than the supposed ‘teaching’ part of the program. And if just plain sheet music is better than your course is at teaching the piano, you’ve got a problem. They need to go back through the songs that are in the course and slow down. They need to really *teach* you the right hand portion of the song, and the left, and then put them together. Until then, this app is an exciting entrance into learning the piano, ultimately followed by a disappointing exit from it.