Your first 15-minute practice
Pianium lets you press one button at the piano to record, then listen back. You can start your first practice without choosing a piece or a drill. Here is how your first 15 minutes go.
1. Open Today
After you sign in, the Today tab opens. You start recording from here.
- Use Piece: to choose what you are practicing. If you have not decided, leave it on Choose later.
- If it says Input: Microphone, your device's microphone records. It works with acoustic and digital pianos. To connect a MIDI device, see When recording doesn't work or MIDI won't connect.
- On days with drills, a Today's drills line appears. See Using the official drills.
2. Start recording and play
Press the record button to start. For a first try, play anything for about 30 seconds.
While recording, you see the elapsed time and the Mic level. "Just right" means you are set. If it says "A little low", or "No sound is reaching the mic. Move your device closer to the piano", move your device closer to the piano.
After 15 minutes you will see "15 minutes in. It's fine to keep going". Stop there or keep playing, whichever suits you.
3. Stop, and it is saved
Press Stop. The recording is saved automatically and you see Saved. There is no save button to press.
Very short recordings are not saved automatically; you will see "Not saved because it was too short". To keep it anyway, press Save it.
After saving you can do any of the following. All of them are optional.
- Under How did it go?, choose "Needs work", "Not bad" or "Played well"
- Write a short note in Memo for this recording (optional)
- Use Choose a piece (optional) to tag the recording with a piece
- Press Listen back to hear this recording
- Press Record another to keep going
4. Listen back, then record the next take
Listening back often reveals things you did not notice while playing. From your next recording on, the Listen back screen lets you compare the same span with your previous recording. See Recording and comparing.
Your recordings and memos are always in the Records tab.
If something goes wrong
- The microphone is not available: When recording doesn't work or MIDI won't connect
- You practiced without a connection: Saving and syncing when you practice offline