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Dave Conservatoire - my attempt at a Khan Academy for music

19 points by davidrees 13y ago

davidrees 13y ago
Just wanted to share where I'm up to with this - and would be really grateful for any ideas and feedback. Also if there were any keen hackers out there who would be interested in donating their time and skills to the project, that would be excellent. I'm a musician and only a relatively new hacker and so I could certainly do with some help to make the site's software more robust!
- hexd 13y ago
  Will you put videos about computer music and signal processing? Perhaps this package might be useful for that: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/audiolazy https://pypi.python.org/pypi/audiolazy
  - davidrees 13y ago
    I'd certainly like to get to covering computer music and sig processing at some point - and will definitely check out audiolazy. Thanks!
karanbhangui 13y ago
Don't have a musical bone in my body (except playing the recorder in elementary school), but it's time I learned! Very well done so far, you've obviously worked hard on this and it shows. edit: curious why you chose the french version over the english 'conservatory'
- davidrees 13y ago
  Thanks! Really appreciate the feedback. In the UK, conservatory tends to mean a glass room on the back of your house - we use conservatoire for music school!
urlwolf 13y ago
Amazing idea. With today's technology, anyone with enough motivation can write music for an orchrestra from a bedroom. What we see is many newcomers realizing they are going to need some music theory an harmony if they want to be any good (myself included). I think there's a market for this. How do you plan to monetize it?
- davidrees 13y ago
  No plans to monetize - want to stay free and open for everyone. Will look for funding and donations as a non-profit.
JoeAcchino 13y ago
This is great. Just a minor note (ah!): the number "1" on the left on my name on the top right corner made me think I had some welcome message in my inbox so I tried to click it. Ok, time to watch some videos. I'll use this as teoric complement of justinguitar.com
- davidrees 13y ago
  Ah ha - so that's your current score. It isn't a fully fleshed out feature, but they idea is you'd get points for completing exercises etc! But yes, at the moment it looks like a message in your inbox! Dave
davesmylie 13y ago
Cool idea. It's comes along just as I've ordered a pile of music theory (for newbies) books - but they wont turn up for another few days. It'll be good to work through these videos at the same time =) I'm up to part 9 of the basic lessons and so far they're looking pretty good!

19 points by davidrees 13y ago

Just wanted to share where I'm up to with this - and would be really grateful for any ideas and feedback. Also if there were any keen hackers out there who would be interested in donating their time and skills to the project, that would be excellent. I'm a musician and only a relatively new hacker and so I could certainly do with some help to make the site's software more robust!

hexd 13y ago
Will you put videos about computer music and signal processing? Perhaps this package might be useful for that: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/audiolazy https://pypi.python.org/pypi/audiolazy
- davidrees 13y ago
  I'd certainly like to get to covering computer music and sig processing at some point - and will definitely check out audiolazy. Thanks!

karanbhangui 13y ago

Don't have a musical bone in my body (except playing the recorder in elementary school), but it's time I learned! Very well done so far, you've obviously worked hard on this and it shows. edit: curious why you chose the french version over the english 'conservatory'

davidrees 13y ago
Thanks! Really appreciate the feedback. In the UK, conservatory tends to mean a glass room on the back of your house - we use conservatoire for music school!

urlwolf 13y ago

Amazing idea. With today's technology, anyone with enough motivation can write music for an orchrestra from a bedroom. What we see is many newcomers realizing they are going to need some music theory an harmony if they want to be any good (myself included). I think there's a market for this. How do you plan to monetize it?

davidrees 13y ago
No plans to monetize - want to stay free and open for everyone. Will look for funding and donations as a non-profit.

JoeAcchino 13y ago

This is great. Just a minor note (ah!): the number "1" on the left on my name on the top right corner made me think I had some welcome message in my inbox so I tried to click it. Ok, time to watch some videos. I'll use this as teoric complement of justinguitar.com

davidrees 13y ago
Ah ha - so that's your current score. It isn't a fully fleshed out feature, but they idea is you'd get points for completing exercises etc! But yes, at the moment it looks like a message in your inbox! Dave

davesmylie 13y ago

Cool idea. It's comes along just as I've ordered a pile of music theory (for newbies) books - but they wont turn up for another few days. It'll be good to work through these videos at the same time =) I'm up to part 9 of the basic lessons and so far they're looking pretty good!