Why can a player use the Up- and Down-arrow computer keys while playing theory games?
While playing some of the Soft Mozart theory games, some novices complain about being forced to play notes in the up and down directions by pressing left-arrow key or right-arrow key instead of the more intuitively comfortable up-arrow or down-arrow keys. Our games are designed for teaching, not for bare entertainment, and this special feature helps to develop very important eye-hand coordination for piano playing. A very big difficulty for a beginner, especially for a child, while reading and playing music notes consists in relating the vertical direction of the music notes on the music score with the horizontal, left to right, direction of the piano keyboard. Children lack enough abstract reasoning skills to easily connect the vertical and horizontal directions. Our approach gently, in an entertaining manner, but very effectively, trains the eye-hand coordination of a player by forcing them to play a higher note using the right direction with right-arrow key, and a lower note using t
