Re: [Denemo-devel] Music Games

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:14:07 +0100
Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have just been trying this (to brush up on my tenor clef, as I have
> started playing the cello recently) and one thing I noticed was that
> it doesn't clear the old notes when you re-set the score.



> I would prefer the pc-keyboard version, and perhaps better still an
> audio input version, so I can actually play the notes on the cello.

I would very much like an audio input version. Part of my practicing
consists of sight singing. It would be nice to have computer generated
sight singing exercises. Each exercise could focus on a predetermined
interval. The note directives can place a +5, -2.3 depending on pitch
accuracy. The plus +5 would mean that it was 5/10 of a semitone sharp
and -2.3 would mean 2.3/10 of a semitone flat.   

> (perhaps, playing random notes is quite taxing - when I was a student
> in Paris they used to do note-naming as part of the regular system, I
> was quite slow because the French note names are different, 

Are they using:
Do Re Me Fa So La Ti Do?

I inherited a student that came from a French school in America. He
used "movable Do" and his older sister used "fixed Do". Is this what
they actually do in France or is this an Americanization?  

>but I
> remember the prof saying that doing it on an instrument was quite
> difficult, and they reckoned on speaking them out. They had books
> with random notes in that you had to recite from.)
> Of course, we could do voice recognition..

My first Aural training professor had us using this software called I
believe ClarisWorks (sp?). Users logged into Claire and it kept a
profile on their scores and performance and how often they practiced
with Claire. Claire provided simple sight reading example that
appeared on the screen that gradually got harder depending if you sang
the pitches correctly. IIRC it had an up arrow on a note if you sang
it sharp and a down arrow if it was flat. Claire's exercises using
both fixed and movable do. I don't recall any "c, d, e etc ...."
This is an exciting idea. How can I help?

Jeremiah    

> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 17:54 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > 
> > > I like were this is going. Note I had to reduce all the 36 size
> > fonts
> > > to 32 and 16 sized fonts to 12. I had to do this so it all fits on
> > my
> > > screen. My resolution is only 1024x768.
> > I want to stop working on this now, so if you can take over that
> > would be great, reducing the font sizes to suit medium spec
> > displays is good.
> > Below are other ideas about it that I have had...
> 
> 
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