Add 'Letters' to Piano overlay
New user to Musescore teaching myself some Piano at age 38.
I think a really nice feature to add would be to add 'letter' overlays to the Keyboard in the 'Guitar Hero' type view.
You could have dim letters across all the White Keys and then have them be bold during the highlighted key down. Certainly more useful then the 'effects' option in my opinion
My biggest struggle has been translating all this 'input' in to something I can quickly understand. I already purchased 'key stickers' to add to my piano and that has helped a lot. The mental load of doing all the heavy translation is a bit much and a point of frustration. While I'm slowly learning the translation, having positive feedback being able to learn simple tunes has been fantastic.
Thanks
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Hmm...
![Keyboard.png]( "Keyboard.png")
I'm a guitarist (primarily). At first glance, I'm looking at octaves, and this looks fishy to me:
You must have lost one of the F "stickers"... ;-)
So, actually less confusing without those stickers.
In reply to Hmm... I'm a guitarist … by Jm6stringer
Ha, you are correct, my MS Paint image was bad but I hope it gets the point across
Fortunately the stickers I actually have on my piano keyboard came with nearly fool proof instructions!
In reply to Ha, you are correct, my MS… by mgslee
Welcome aboard! ...Point taken and thanks for posting your request.
MuseScore started primarily as a scorewriting software which, over the years, has moved toward including features related to playback and education. (In fact, its virtual piano keyboard did not always exist.)
Anyway, your request has been voiced by others. Even guitar players have requested a similar 'Guitar Hero' fretboard view. In fact, someone has created a plugin:
https://musescore.org/en/project/fretboard
Anyhow...
Since MuseScore is open source, someone has to come along with the desire and skill set needed to create such a 'piano letters overlay', so sit tight.
Meanwhile...
I fiddle with piano and searched (during the days of Windows XP) for free music education software for piano. One in particular was game-like. It had notes moving across the screen (speed was adjustable) and the correct piano key had to be struck before the note fell off the edge. (Note range, clef, use of accidentals, key signatures, etc. could be set before 'playing'.)
Others focused on rhythm rather than note recognition.
So...
It might be worth searching for something like that to help you along, especially if you own a MIDI keyboard.
See https://musescore.org/en/node/309233 where that had come up before