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Congrats on your launch. I love innovation and experimentation in this space. I am confused about why you feel it is easier to read the "sheet music" in your
by whiddershins 9y ago
Congrats on your launch.
I love innovation and experimentation in this space.
I am confused about why you feel it is easier to read the "sheet music" in your app than traditional notation. I feel the tight spacing of the note indicators does overtly show rhythmic values, but at the expense of easy readability.
They are also misleading unless they show how varied an actual note duration can be. Do you show staccato notes as short? How short? These are determinations left to the player.
The lack of stems makes the use of the term "sheet music" rather misleading/confusing, in my opinion.
Having a chromatic keyboard that gives equal space to all twelve tones is a cool idea, but as someone who plays such keyboards primarily, as well as "normal" piano, I can assure you it is not necessarily easier to learn or to play traditional music, including modern pop music, on such a keyboard.
I am genuinely curious whether you have tested any of the assumptions behind your reworking of these conventions, many of which probably exist for reasons that go beyond just inertia.
I feel like I keep seeing products that try to do away with what's "hard" about reading sheet music, but that is solving one of the smallest hurdles confronting people trying to learn music. Sure, it looks like hieroglyphs to the uninitiated, but once you learn the basics it's actually pretty easy to work with. Do you have a plan in place for gradually introducing the learner to stems and rests and other sheet music notation, or ... how does the learner move on from this?
Regardless, would love to hear about how things go and how people respond to your ideas.
- j_rcht 9y agoHi whiddershins, Thanks for your comment, To answer your questions about additional notation marks, please feel free to check our documentation here http://www.dodeka.info/Learn/Presentation/ http://www.dodeka.info/Learn/Presentation/ and http://www.dodeka.info/Learn/Resources/ http://www.dodeka.info/Learn/Resources/. These will show you how we notate rests, staccato, and other notational marks. As for the advantage dodeka brings, it's really about the synergy there is between the keyboard and the sheets. There's only one way to write one piece, which means that players can easily learn how to play a song in every tone. Our tests showed that people usually take between 1 to 3 minutes to read and play an easy piece in all different tones. This is fast right? :) For rhythms - we believe it's easier for one's mind to see the value rather that to compute it. Also, we are not targeting musicians, but rather beginners and people who'd like to learn/play music in an easy way. Finally, I'm not sure that I understood what you meant with the stems and sheet music.