Take a closer look at the Nota piano training app for the Apple iPad.
Donald Bell
Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing How To content for CNET, as well as weekly episodes of CNET's Top 5 video series.
Nota is a piano training app available for the iPhone and iPod Touch; an iPad app is forthcoming. The company has shared these images of the iPad version with CNET.
In this image, you can see Nota's chord browser makes it easy to find a chord and play it on any key or invert it.
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An interactive notes quiz allows beginners to quickly correlate the keyboard with written notation.
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For beginners, Nota's slick interface makes it a joy to learn music. It covers the basics of music notation with a four-octave piano that displays the notes on a staff.
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Nota's reference section includes a comprehensive reference of music notation displayed in a book-like format.
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To demonstrate the practical effect of the iPad's large screen size, we've inset a screenshot of the Nota iPhone app at scale size. By contrast, the iPad's piano keyboard is nearly life-size, and allows for two hands; the iPhone version features toy-size keys and is only practical for one hand.
