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Drum machines have always been a staple in many home recording and professional recording studios. As technology advanced MIDI keyboards allowed you to get real piano sounds from an electronic device, now the iPad, iPhone and Android powered mobile devices are giving you a digital piano right at your finger tips. In this article I want to introduce you to the 3 most power apps that allow you to turn your mobile device or tablet into a full functioning piano or keyboard to use for fun, song writing or even performing or recording. Pianist This is by far the best piano app I've seen. Someone actually used this application on an ipad to play a live piano solo on the tonight show. This application offers you a full size keyboard on screen or the option to zoom into 2 octaves worth of keys. The sample sound quality is top notch and there is even a built in drum machine you can create beats on to play along with. Magic Piano This is more of a fun based piano application. While it does provide you with 2 octaves worth of keys to play on you can see the focus of the application is more of a game and entertainment rather then music creation. Fund features like a spiral piano make this application great for youngsters as well. Virtuoso Piano This piano app is similar to Pianist that it gives you an actual piano to play with. There is a free and pro paid version of this app available so you can easily download the free version and test it out before you have to spend a dime. These three applications and literally hundreds of others are making music creation and play easy on mobile devices. What does the future hold? Hard to say. In order to make the most of these apps you of course still need to be able to play the piano, but maybe in the future you'll be able to do that on these devices as well. Want to learn how to play the piano? Why not try a piano lessons dvd? These self study piano courses like Learn and Master Piano are quickly becoming the method of choice for adults to learn the instrument on their own terms and for less money then private lessons.
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