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This is incredible because it exactly matches my needs. I started learning the piano 3 years ago as an adult, I love it, but my biggest difficulty is reading sc
by pil0u 2y ago
This is incredible because it exactly matches my needs. I started learning the piano 3 years ago as an adult, I love it, but my biggest difficulty is reading scores. I do want to practice but also I'm very lazy, I tried to find a tool to help but never found yours before.
Tiny question before I purchase to unlock the microphone feature (which is really what makes sense for me): does the app understands do ré mi via microphone?
Thanks for your work.
- rooster117 2y agoThe mic works on the standard 440 tuning and converts the input to its midi representation. Trying to understand your question but the mic doesn't really care about the do, re, me but rather that it's the right frequency for the displayed note on the staff. The mic feature is something I'm actively working on improving as it's decent now but not perfect. If you have an instrument with a way to connect to the phone through midi it's the best experience but if you have acoustic then the mic or just the on screen keyboard is the good.
- pil0u 2y agoHa, I thought I could "sing" the notes, like reading them out loud (which is what my mentor suggests me to work on)
- rooster117 2y agoYou may be able to sing to it but since it's assuming the instrument to be in tune (piano) it may be slightly off and still register since it's estimating which note is most correct.
- dhosek 2y agoJoining a good choir can do a lot to really build your ear in this respect. Generating a note from within your body does so much more to build your ear than generating a note by hitting a key or plucking a string (wind instruments are kind of a middle ground in this respect).
- doctorhandshake 2y agoDo you mind if I ask what library or algorithm you’re using for pitch estimation?
- rooster117 2y agocurrently it's yin
- doctorhandshake 2y agoAh thank you I was not aware of that one.
- ajepst 2y agoSight reading practice for voice is super useful, but not many of us have perfect pitch to pull a starting note out of the air! An option to get a starting note audible cue for vocal sight reading would be a great add-on (and hopefully not too difficult!)
- Ericson2314 2y agoI have perfect pitch and it's overrated. Pro tip: You can pick any note you want as the starting pitch, and do realtive pitch from there. It doesn't matter. Pitch is an affine space, there's no 0 pitch!
- ajepst 2y agoOh of course, if you just want to practice sight reading on your own, correct pitch is irrelevant, but if you want to use an app like this and have it follow along and check if you’re accurate with your sight reading, you have to agree with the app on pitch!
- Ericson2314 2y agoCan you change the tempo or something to slide around on the first note until you find the pitch it wants?
- ozornin 2y agoIt becomes important if you play with other people though
- Ericson2314 2y agoEven then, you need to tune against those other people. Perfect pitch is not so precise that everyone can just start on exactly the same note hah.
- eumenides1 2y agoClassic Joke: How do you know a person has perfect pitch? I learned that as you get older, if you don't use it, you lose it.
- rooster117 2y agoMy app appears at the top of a search if you specify sight reading but if you are searching for "learn piano" or similar keywords it will be no where near the top
- pil0u 2y agoI just learned via your post the term "sight reading" in English. French words and expressions when it comes to music are very different.
- rooster117 2y agoI've only recently localized the app but only the contents of the app. I'm sure there are a lot of easy improvements on discoverability I'm missing out on.
- alwa 2y agoOut of curiosity, what’s the French term for this technique?
- patrocle 2y agoWe call it "solfège".
- thaumasiotes 2y agoHuh. My instinct was that (in English), "solfège" is just the name of the collection of notes. (The same way that "alphabet" is the name of the collection of letters beginning "A B C D E ...".) And interestingly enough, the English wikipedia page completely backs me up on that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge ("Solfège is a form of solmization, though the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably.") However, the English wiktionary page gives no gloss other than "a method of sight singing". (More fully, "A method of sight singing that uses the syllables do (originally ut), re, mi, fa, sol (or so), la, and si (or ti) to represent the seven principal pitches of the scale".) Merriam-Webster strongly supports the wikipedia definition, but it does note that "a method of sight-reading music" is an alternative, non-primary meaning. In French, does solfège refer to any sight reading? A common way to sight-read vocal music is to sing the actual lyrics as opposed to the note names. And by far the most common way to sight-read piano music is to play it without saying anything at all.