Great idea, you can even play chords. Unfortunately, the fireworks slow the speed down significantly (read: painfully) and make it hard to play anything. Perhaps you could make it run faster since you're using many copies of the same image? Another thing that bugs me is that your fingers have to reach down for the black keys instead of up as on a piano keyboard. If you switched rows it would be easier to play (for me at least) Also I would love to have some pre-programmed tunes in here. If you have time, of course.

thanks for the comment, rhino_mk II. ya. i will swap the white/black keys mapping. that is a good idea. as for the speed, i will also look into that. no, i am not using the same copies of the image because of the fading effect of the fireworks. sure will add some pre-programmed tunes if i have the time.

Nice idea, but as said previously the fireworks really slow things down - I'd suggest reusing images and declaring them as static fields (or a static array if you're fading) so they're only loaded once. If you're not doing this already, this should speed things up a lot.

Yeah, this runs much more smoothly. How amazing would it be if you had notes to a song scroll across the screen (at the same speed, or so that they hit a certain place at the right time) for you to play a song? *cough* Guitar Hero *cough* Of course, if that sort of thing doesn't appeal to you, I was thinking you could have like a color scale for each octave from red C through purple B so that your fireworks match the music by color as well as timing. Once again, these are just suggestions.