Ubuntu – Recommendations for music games for children

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Can anyone recommend some good music games for small children? I thought something like a virtual piano or drum, but with a very simple GUI. My girls are three and six, and they already love to play tuxpaint, I am looking for something similar for music.

Best Answer

A good children orientated distro is doudoulinux.

One of there recommended young children applications is a virtual keyboard such as this:

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You can play this virtual keyboard with the keys of your computer.

Similarly - but I think better is Drumstick Virtual Keyboard (from the software center) which you can easily make a full screen keyboard by double clicking the title bar.

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DrumStick Piano Keyboard

Install the following software packages from the Software Center:

  • DrumStick Piano Keyboard
  • timidity

Run DrumStick and connect to timidity by the menu option "Edit - Output Tab - Timidity:0"

Virtual Keyboard ## .

Install the following software packages from the Software Center:

  • Virtual Midi Keyboard
  • aconnect
  • timidity

To connect the virtual keyboard to play sounds via the timidity synth:

timidity &

run the virtual Midi Keyboard app

vkeyd &

and then connect the two pieces of software together

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Obviously you could script this together to run from a desktop icon.

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