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.
A good children orientated distro is doudoulinux.
One of there recommended young children applications is a virtual keyboard such as this:
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.
Install the following software packages from the Software Center:
Run DrumStick and connect to timidity by the menu option "Edit - Output Tab - Timidity:0"
Install the following software packages from the Software Center:
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
aconnect 129 128
Obviously you could script this together to run from a desktop icon.
