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Hi Dan, I tried to hold off on replying to your post because my answer to your question would have been "Your practice method should be what works best for you" - a completely true yet completely useless answer. I will tell you what I did and you can take or leave any portion you like. I started off...

That is fantastic news that the Hanon exercises will be part of PGS at some point in the future. I am one of those that practice the Hanon exercises outside of PGS - to build strength in fingers 4 and 5. All these exercises are in a book named "The Virtuoso Pianist" and is freely available in PDF fo...

Did you try moving your mouse pointer over to the monitor you want to use immediately after starting PGS but before the window appears? Just in case Windows wants to create the PGS window where your mouse pointer is. Another option might be to create a Windows Desktop Shortcut for PGS on the monitor...

No, I never resolved that issue. Not spending any time on it. I am just glad that WINE works at all. No problem exiting PGS and restarting if I forget to connect the keyboard first.

Hello All, Taking a few minutes at lunch to share my findings on running PGS on top of WINE on Linux. I was motivated to work on this because I am a full time Linux user, and every music tool I use (except for PGS) I use on Linux. Making things worse, for PGS I was using a 2007 era Dell Windows Vist...

Request - Billy Joel/Root Beer Rag. I think this beast would be just as much a challenge for the developers as the learners. For me, if I could play the advanced version of this successfully, I could definitely call myself a piano player. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seqWdC1hPt8 This link takes y...

Hello All, I played a little bit years ago as a kid, and about the only thing I remember today were the key names. I did the 30 day demo and bought the lifetime subscription because I liked the feature set of Playground Sessions and it costs a heck of a lot less than a teacher. Best of luck to you a...