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- Your first 15-minute practice Start recording from Today, stop, and listen back. You can begin without choosing a piece or a drill.
- Organizing recordings by piece Add pieces, group their recordings and reorder Today’s suggestions. Mark a piece finished or tidy the list while keeping recordings.
- Adding and opening PDF and other scores Import PDF, MusicXML and MIDI files, choose a score for a piece, save a device copy and export. Check which file formats work.
- Writing on your scores (pen and finger gestures) Write on PDFs, adjust eraser size, switch between finger drawing and moving, and save and sync notes across devices.
- Saving and syncing when you practice offline How recordings, memos and score notes are kept on your device without a connection, and sent once you are back online.
- Recording and comparing Listen back, compare the same span with last time, and hear your first recording next to now. Plus how to leave a rating and memo.
- Muting the microphone during a recording Mute and unmute sound during a microphone take. Learn what happens to time while muted and how the next recording starts.
- Elapsed practice time and audio length Read the two times after saving and in practice details. Understand the one-minute difference notice and an unknown audio length.
- Saving a MIDI recording to a file Save your own original MIDI as a .mid file from a practice log. Choose a destination and check connection or missing-menu issues.
- Connecting a digital piano with USB MIDI Select a piano connected by cable. Prepare iPad or Android OTG, connect a device and handle a cable disconnect during recording.
- Practice time, days and weekly goals Check time and days, understand the 60-second recording rule, add a day you forgot to record, and set weekly goals or use a rest ticket.
- Setting practice reminders Set a time to play, allow notifications and understand early and weekend reminders. What to check if they do not arrive, and how to stop them.
- Using the metronome and changing tempo Start the metronome from Today, stop to change tempo, or tap a pace. Learn what happens to the click during a recording.
- Using the official drills How to choose scale, cadence and arpeggio drills, add them, and record with them.
- Choosing and skipping today's drills Choose from all drills available today and record. Understand time estimates, skipping for the day, finishing and an empty list.
- Practicing in stages with a four-beat count-in Set a drill focus and stage tempos, record self-reported completion and wait four beats before recording starts.
- Using 90-second sight reading Match notes on a score with on-screen or MIDI keys. Learn single notes, chords, phrases, results and progress saved only on this device.
- Asking the coach and AI limits Write questions with line breaks or continue a conversation. Understand conversation and monthly AI limits, and what to do when replies fail.
- Data sent to AI and withdrawing consent Review what the coach sends, which files stay out, who receives data and how to withdraw consent. Recording visibility is a separate setting.
- Cloud storage and monthly delivery Find cloud usage, understand storage versus monthly delivery, keep practicing at a limit, and check when delivery renews.
- Restoring purchases, canceling and changing plans Restore a Pianium Plus purchase, cancel in the App Store or Google Play, and switch between monthly and yearly.
- Deleting your account and data Delete single practice records or recordings, or request deletion of your whole account. What is deleted and what is kept.
- When recording doesn't work or MIDI won't connect Check microphone permission, mute and input levels, or troubleshoot a Bluetooth or USB MIDI device that will not connect.
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