TEAM

Anna Osipova

Joonas Pohjala

Goal

To help practise piano easily

To make piano a fun game

To make waking up to alarms more fun and less routine

To share you piano achievements with friends

To contribute to creativity

Idea

PianoAlarm shares two different main features. One is the piano (or guitar, bassguitar, drums) playing, with different melodies and different skill levels, exercises and points awarded based on your performance.

Other main feature is the alarm. You can choose a melody for the alarm or the melody can be randomly chosen from your skill level. When the alarm goes off it can't be shut down unless you play the melody just right. PianoAlarm can also be used to schedule work breaks that can help you relax with some music playing.

Motivation

The main motivation to use this app is to learn playing instruments easily. You can also make waking up and working a little easier by this app.

Features

Finished features:

Playing piano

Playing example melodies

Checking if player plays correctly

Unfinished features:

Alarms

Other instruments

Problems

Playing instruments and learning to play them isn't easy

You should practise very often to play well

Also waking up might be hard

When working long, creativity decreases

Technologies

We are developing our PianoAlarm for Windows 8 tablets. Our techniques:

C#

Visual studio 2012

Windows 8

.Net for Windows Store Apps

Presentation

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