There are multiple ways to practice a few measures without having to play through the entire piece. One way is to use the Learn mode, or slicings, in the piece. You can find these by clicking on the Learn button on the lower bar. You will see three options, Whole, Chopped, and Minced for many pieces (some pieces do not require all of the slicings, so not all slicings will be available on all pieces). The Whole will include the entire piece, as it sounds. The Chopped slicing will generally include smaller pieces, starting with 8 measures and working through the piece. Minced slicing will have the smallest portions, helping you to learn the piece in 4 measure sections. There will also be multiple tempos available in the slicings, so you can learn the piece more slowly and then increase to full speed.
The second way to select measures that you want to work on is available on iPhone, iPad, and the web app (for computers). When you are inside a piece and would like to practice a set of measures, but they do not correspond to a slicing already present for the piece, please click on the Mixer button in the lower right corner of the piece. On the left side of this box, you will see the start measure and start point and end measure and end point. The point would be the beat, so point one would be the first beat of the measure, and so on. You can select which measure and beat of the measure you want to start and stop on.
The third method of selecting measures to practice is only available on the web app, currently. You can use your mouse or click pad to highlight a section of the piece and then use Practice or Play mode to work on it. Don’t forget, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected]!!
Q: Can you use Apple Pencil to mark/write private comments on sheet music in the Library? (using iPad Air 3)
It would be very helpful if I can mark the area I need to work on or write a comment on the sheet music for my own reference.
Thanks for reaching out to us. No, currently you cannot mark up a sheet to note comments or other items, but we do plan on adding that feature in the future. If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].
It would be nice to have a function which loops a segment over and over without having to press play and listening to the countdown all the time.
Thanks for reaching out to us. We are planning on adding that feature in a future version of Piano Marvel, but don’t have a release date, yet. If you have any questions, please let me know at [email protected].
highlighting a section of a song with the mouse doesn’t work because it doesn’t scroll the pages down as you select the measures, so you can’t keep highlightening and selecting further measures. So, at the end the max measures highlighted are the ones you can fit in one page only. It is very very frustrating because you can’t study a longer piece or make it accordingly your goals. Looping a segment would also be very helpfull.
Thank you for your comment. I will report that the highlighting is not moving down the way it should. You can also highlight a section in the Controls in the lower right corner of the screen on the bottom bar. The left-most section in the controls allows you to choose your measure and blick, or beat, that you want your selection to begin and end on. We are working on adding a looping feature in the future. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected].
Hi, do you have any more information on when a looping feature will become available?
Thanks for commenting! We are still testing the audio engine upgrade that has to happen before the looping feature can be added. It will be released to iPad/iPhone first, then be added to the web version. I am sorry, we do not have a release date for the looping feature as it will be built after the audio engine is completed.
Hi. As a feature request, it would be great if you could select only the LH / RH staff if you want to practice one hand only. That would also play really nicely with custom midi uploads
Great idea! We are working on that option, but for your uploads you can adjust that in the option to Create or Edit Practice Mode section currently. If you have any questions about where to find that, please let me know at [email protected].