Namco Bandai has announced and revealed “Easy Piano” for Nitendo DS Lite users, so that the users / gamers will be able to learn some real piano. Easy Piano is a real mini piano that contains only one octave and which introduces the use of this extraordinary instrument. It looks rather like a game “arcade” as a title dedicated to learning, such as the kitchen or on foreign languages. Namco Bandai designed a video game that teaches how to play the piano with lessons & tutorials concerned by pluggare into the slot.

Will be contained within scores of Mozart and Beethoven, but also modern songs like Bohemian Rhapsody and Jingle Bells, you can record up to 3 minutes then the performance to show to friends. Interesting idea, although one eighth is very restricted.

[ via Joystiq ]