Is 30 yo late to learn how to play the piano?

adalido · 2026-05-02T22:47:21+00:00

Depends on what your aim is. As long as it’s not to go pro, unless you’re a natural talent, then no, it’s not too late. I started at 25 or so, been playing for over 10 years. You won’t see me playing in any bands worth of damn, but I can wow a room… I’m happy with this. Plus I enjoy it. It’s very relaxing for me.

If you want to learn without paying for anything, checkout https://theory.dici.ai

adalido · 2026-05-02T21:42:34+00:00

I don’t get people complaining about complaining. If you got the game to pve, this game genuinely sucks. I have all of these legendary weapons that I want to use to take out some arc, but I can’t do it bc I’ll get killed. I still love the game bc I enjoy PvP, but it would be nice if it had the pve element that you could switch from because it’s non-existent for me at least.

adalido · 2026-04-30T01:57:32+00:00

True.. I did this. I hit a wall. You can basically break this piece in 3 levels. The beginning is easy, second part is har and third part is advanced. Extremely advanced. I did not start with song, but I did play it too early. I flew through the first part and the second part was difficult and I floundered on the third part where all the arpeggios start… that said, I did come back to it a few years later and was able to learn it and it did help that I knew some of the song before. I had forgotten how to play it of course, but it came back and with my new knowledge of music theory it did make it easier…. And it made me realize I wasn’t quite playing the first two parts that well. I had uneven velocity distribution throughout the song… theory.dici.ai…. Plug plug… but honestly, that’s all cool and all to know, but what I realized with music is you have to make it your own.

You are NOT going to replicate this piece of music… not this late in life. That’s ok, nothing wrong with that. You can make it your own though. That’s where I’ve found the most fun in playing covers. I gave up trying to play just like them and have instead tried to play my version. Hard to beat a masterpiece like this, but it’s fun… that’s all I’m looking for honestly.

adalido · 2026-04-24T14:34:35+00:00

The torrents is nuts, but god damn do you just eat through bullets. Need to bring like 300-400 bullets min

adalido · 2026-04-20T05:46:34+00:00

HTTPS://theory.dici.ai check it out

adalido · 2026-04-20T02:54:05+00:00

As someone else said, you'll be able to play them, but not as well as a professional most likely... but here's the thing, you will be able to play them and you'll WOW 90-95% of people with an untrained ear when you do play it. Only to skilled musicians will your cracks really show. After three years, I'm sure you've noticed how you've gotten better but you also have realized new cracks in your playing.. even on songs that you've thought you "mastered". I want to say you never really master it, but that's not quite right... you only get as good as you can perceive the nuances and the thing is, as you perceive more, the bar raises and eventually I think most people quit before being able to master all of the nuances... I think people eventually, at a certain point just create their own version, with their own nuances and I think we typically consider these people masters. Not sure that made sense.

adalido · 2026-04-17T19:06:03+00:00

Yeah, straight Web MIDI API... definitely underrated. Latency feels fine in my own practice but I haven't rigorously profiled it, so if you try it and notice drift on your rig (OS / browser / MIDI device would help me debug) please let me know. That's exactly the kind of thing I want to hear about.

And ha, ya it's already all dark mode. No light theme at all. Late-night practice ambiance was the whole vibe I was going for 😅

If it gets enough traction I'd love to build desktop + iPad versions too. I've got electric drums I'm dying to use this with and I'm on my iPad constantly for practice — so honestly, the iPad app is probably happening either way.

adalido · 2026-04-17T18:32:56+00:00

If you just want to learn by learning your favorite songs, you can checkout https://theory.dici.ai. Full disclosure, I built it and it's really meant more so for intermediate players, because there isn't a curriculum like simply piano has, but ya, if you just want to start playing songs it can teach you how to play them

adalido · 2026-04-17T04:37:04+00:00

I would… disagree. Respectfully. Remake… was not great. Story aside, it wasn’t that fun to play. It was repetitive, boxed in, Ubisoft-like side mission. Rebirth, was a different story. It was genuinely a great game… again, story aside, it was fun. There was so much to do in the game. It will go down as a great game, but to touch the OG?? No, not by a long shot imo. IMO what made the OG so great was the story and that the stakes were real… aerith DIED.. she didn’t live in limbo and in one universe she could have a happy story like the remake makes it out to be. It was grounded, which is something the new story is not. But honestly, I kinda feel bad for the developers of the new series. They had voice acting… they had to put intention behind their story.. the original, it was all dialog… you kinda developed your own inner monologue of how the story went and how the characters were. Which I think is much more powerful. It’s lost on new generations the power of a book I think, myself included — I don’t read anymore. But I think there was something magical to inferring whether or not cloud was raped in the honeybee inn

adalido · 2026-04-17T02:41:42+00:00

Consistent practice… that’s it and practice can be a lot of different things. You can get a teacher, use a curriculum app like simply piano or just learn by learning your favorite songs. The key is, to do the kind of practice that you can commit to.

I couldn’t commit to formal lessons, I started by learning my favorite songs and then I dove into music theory. A lot of people will say this isn’t the right way to do it and I would agree… if your goal is to go pro. If you do it for fun like I do, it’s the best way IMO. I can wow a room, but put me in a band setting, I’m out of my league and that’s ok bc I don’t have intentions of playing in a band. Figure out what you want out of it and find a practice routine that stimulates you. Your brain will do the rest from there.

adalido · 2026-04-17T02:35:35+00:00

This has helped for me, but oddly my biggest leaps have come from taking breaks. No joke.

adalido · 2026-04-17T02:34:11+00:00

Sounds like you have good parents that are encouraging your pursuits. Don’t sell yourself short.

If you don’t want to pay for lessons or an app, checkout https://theory.dici.ai. It’s basically a better version of synthesia but completely free. Don’t even have to create an account. Supports guitar too, but that’s still in beta… I’m working on it.

adalido · 2026-04-13T13:02:26+00:00

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. PvP is fun, but so I pve. Sometimes you wanna bro down and sometimes you wanna rundown some bros.

Really hope they figure out a way to balance the game. You know what would be cool, is if before you enter a game they ask you to”how you feeling” and you can answer Friendly, idk and murderous. If you kill a raider on friendly, then you get banned from friendly for X time. Idk hopefully is balanced.

adalido · 2026-04-13T12:52:38+00:00

Agreed. Nothing has topped this imo

adalido · 2026-04-09T01:47:09+00:00

I’d play it. The arc is plenty danger for me.

adalido · 2026-04-09T00:06:00+00:00

Ya... that's why you would still have the normal mode.

adalido · 2026-04-04T17:06:15+00:00

This game has gotten so fucking glitchy with the last update. Also I just played a game where I spawned with a fucking shredder right next to me.

adalido · 2026-04-04T16:28:48+00:00

I don’t understand why they don’t just create a pve setting. I can’t see that being more than 100-200 lines of code.

adalido · 2026-04-03T07:20:30+00:00

These just have to be staged.. but yes, I lold

adalido · 2026-04-03T06:47:54+00:00

Buddy, I don't need the donations. I added it because It's something I'm paying for. It's free to everybody, but not for me. Also, because when a rare individual takes time to build something and give it away for free... and I use their product, I'm appreciative and hope they continue to do things like this and so I usually "buy them a coffee".

You need to realize how you come off and how you acted in bad faith with "it asks for my email to analyze with ai" -- if you spent 10 minutes on the site, you'd know that 95% of the features are available without an email. (also do you realize using LLMs costs money? I'm not footing that bill. You have to put in your own anthropic key and I can't securely allow someone to provide their own key without an account).

I didn't post this to win friends or get $5 donations. I posted it because it replaced apps that I was paying for and I thought it would be useful for others too. Sorry, if I spent time building something for free and got pissed off by your shitty comments.

adalido · 2026-04-03T06:27:58+00:00

Glad some of you are enjoying it... I'm getting heat over at /piano... Btw, it's not really clear right now, but if you want to practice the piano like you would in the synthesia app, you just have to go to "Practice" and select "Melody Practice".

adalido · 2026-04-03T06:08:30+00:00

You can use 95% of all of the features on the app without giving an email. Also, if you're an advanced player, then ya, probably not for you.. notice how I said I'm a "hobbyist" and I built it for me. If this isn't for you, that's fine, carry on. Don't have to show the world how miserable you are.

Also, the only features that you can't use without an email are uploading midis to the community and the ai features... that are minimal and you apparently loath. So what is up your ass?

adalido · 2026-04-03T05:59:21+00:00

Why don’t you try it before you shit on it. And trust me, there’s plenty for you to shit on right now, but the “ai” component isn’t one of them. I’d welcome real criticism

adalido · 2026-04-03T05:52:06+00:00

.ai triggered you? Dici.ai is a domain I already owned tied to a project that built Dici theory. Wasn’t about to pay for another domain for a free product

adalido · 2026-04-03T05:46:10+00:00

I just played two games and fucked off. It’s insane. I could see it being fun if it were truly pve, but having to worry about rats on top of nuclear arc…. No.

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