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For reference "Hanon" is a classic book of piano exercises that improve the velocity of the pianist. It is like 150 years old but still heavily used everyday by a lot of professional pianists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtuoso_Pianist_in_60_E...
For reference "Hanon" is a classic book of piano exercises that improve the velocity of the pianist. It is like 150 years old but still heavily used everyday by a lot of professional pianists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtuoso_Pianist_in_60_E...
It is also widely criticized by professional piano teachers (see the link above), and for good reasons.
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Fourier is harder than MIDI, more technical to achieve, and also less reliable in noisy environments. Also from a HN MVP point of view this is about picking shortest path and ship something (especially important since there are other things to implement as well), and Fourier can be added later. But yeah philosophically I understand your frustration, as someone who has implemented both :-)
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It is also widely criticized by professional piano teachers (see the link above), and for good reasons.
That's not strong opposition there. One basically says it's boring, and the other says that only a certain technique can ever be good, and then it isn't even cited.
I can think of practically nothing more injurious to good technique and nothing more likely to induce tension than this.
Hanon could have some value if teachers and students would employ the concept of weight transfer from finger to finger with constant contact with the keyboard. But his idea of finger calisthenics is a relic of the 19th c.
It would be awesome if the file format was open and anyone could add their own scores to the app...
Try Soundslice, which lets you import any sheet music. It has a PDF/photo-scanning feature plus an entire sheet music editor built-in. https://www.soundslice.com/ I’ve been working on it full-time for nearly 12 years now. It doesn’t do the “listen to your performance” thing — maybe someday. But the other bits, such as practice tracking and interactive sheet music features, are all there.
I thought I'll have to dev something myself.
But I googled and discovered SoundSlice.
My practice technique has changed, I'm learning superfast thanks to SoundSlice. I play it on a tablet I've got a tripod in my playing area.
It's awesome to see the creator here, I didn't know that it's been going on since 12 years.
And I learnt that you're the co-creator of Django as well, it's cool to have the product from an indie dev vs an (enshittification loving) corp.
Just wanted to say thanks for your great work, your app has really made it much easier for me to learn faster tracks!
iOS once touted itself as being honest. Now it doesn't show the price until you install the app?
On this note, does anyone know some books in references to applied music theory? I'm a pretty advanced piano player, but a lot of more basic piano players can make up chords to play with with simple tunes that sound pretty good, most of those people seem to know a certain of rules that I don't know. And googling books about piano music on google books or the likes has not yielded any useful results.
If you want to go in the jazz direction, the Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine [1] is great! It has everything a jazz player needs to know, from II - V - I voicings to scales, upper structures, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Piano_Book