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Re: Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)

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Post by amszmidt »

xibe wrote: post #85
patrocle wrote: post #73

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We call it "solfège".

Akshually... According to Wikipédia FR, the French equivalent of Sight Reading is "Lecture à vue" [1]. Notes: - I'm French; - I learnt to play the piano as a teenager, and I'm trying to get back to it again as at 45+; - I too discovered the "sight reading" term online, but that was long ago (as I recall, through a video of an adult piano player doing "live sight-reading" versions of songs he didn't know beforehand, s…

Solmization, I think is maybe what you are looking for? It is where you sing a song using the Solfege (Do/Re/Mi....)?

Though I wouldn't say that it is the same as "sight reading" -- but maybe "sight singing"?

Re: Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)

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Post by shermantanktop »

stnmtn wrote: post #107
dockerd wrote: post #94

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Why not use Tab notation for guitar?

Tab notation doesn't provide full time signature information, if you're picking up a piece of music which you've never heard played before In tablature, imagine one string's line shows ---10-----7--8------11----13. How long do you hold each note? Clearly 7 to 8 is quick, but how quick? Sheet music gives you this exact information.

That's a solved problem. Tab + stave notation, with the stave above and tab below.

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Post by mvdtnz »

gustanas wrote: post #100

I'm not in the target audience, but as an iOS dev myself, I have to say—your app is an ASO wet dream: - Nice logo - Clear, engaging screenshots - Solid title/subtitle with relevant keywords - Amazing reviews and ratings Really well done!

What's ASO?

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Post by allenu »

mvdtnz wrote: post #126
gustanas wrote: post #100

I'm not in the target audience, but as an iOS dev myself, I have to say—your app is an ASO wet dream: - Nice logo - Clear, engaging screenshots - Solid title/subtitle with relevant keywords - Amazing reviews and ratings Really well done!

What's ASO?

App Store Optimization, sort of the SEO for the App Store.

Re: Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)

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Post by tunesmith »

Ericson2314 wrote: post #71
ajepst wrote: post #52

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Sight 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!)

I 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!

In music school, I was in the position of having excellent relative pitch and zero perfect pitch. In the ear training courses, I actually scored better than the peers with perfect pitch, as it seemed they had difficulty with a lot of the exercises, particularly the by-ear transcription of the four-part bach chorale snippets.

Re: Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)

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Post by shermantanktop »

shermantanktop wrote: post #124
stnmtn wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tab notation doesn't provide full time signature information, if you're picking up a piece of music which you've never heard played before In tablature, imagine one string's line shows ---10-----7--8------11----13. How long do you hold each note? Clearly 7 to 8 is quick, but how quick? Sheet music gives you this exact information.

That's a solved problem. Tab + stave notation, with the stave above and tab below.

Here's an example from the (great) abcjs project:

https://paulrosen.github.io/abcjs/visual/tablature.html

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