What a wonderful logo! I'll see if my daughter is interested, but I'd love a guitar version (hint, hint).
Check out Tenuto for similar types of learning modes, and that has guitar/fretboard support for some modes.
Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)
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#32That’s awesome! I’m not a musician but just impressed by an app with great focus that stands the test of time. Makes me wonder why Apple doesn’t have an area for exactly this type of app; the opposite of Latest Apps.
Community could maintain an index. awesome-ios-apps-timeless
Might be my pessimistic mood this morning, but I'm curious whether these "awesome x" indices are actually community-owned or whether its code for "one passionate person sifting through a bunch of garbage until they burn out"
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#33This 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 m…
My 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
I just learned via your post the term "sight reading" in English. French words and expressions when it comes to music are very different.
Re: Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Community could maintain an index. awesome-ios-apps-timeless
Might be my pessimistic mood this morning, but I'm curious whether these "awesome x" indices are actually community-owned or whether its code for "one passionate person sifting through a bunch of garbage until they burn out"
Hopefully the next volunteer extends the work of their predecessor, instead of starting from scratch.
In theory, reputation signals from 'awesome' lists and HN threads could inform search engines, LLMs and app market analytics.
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#35Thanks, just downloaded it to try and purchased instantly - great app! Have been “playing” Für Elise for so many years on piano, but forgot how to read sheet music years ago and didn’t quite know how to get back into it. Thought Synthesia would help but struggle at certain parts so the repetition and score based learning will help a lot.
I am cursed with enough musical memory that if I learn a piece from sheet music, my sight reading literally turns off and I play from some combination of muscle memory and ear. That might sound like a humblebrag, but it's not -it's quite frustrating to "work on reading" and then realize I'm not actually getting better at reading. When I come back to the material later, the short-term musical memory has usually faded and I'm starting over.
That's what comes from playing simpler rock stuff by ear/memory for many years and then moving to large amounts of material which can't be done only by ear.
My solution is to have a large amount of unfamiliar material and just open to a random page and start working things out.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 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 th…
Ha, I thought I could "sing" the notes, like reading them out loud (which is what my mentor suggests me to work on)
You 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.
Re: Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)
#37Thanks, just downloaded it to try and purchased instantly - great app! Have been “playing” Für Elise for so many years on piano, but forgot how to read sheet music years ago and didn’t quite know how to get back into it. Thought Synthesia would help but struggle at certain parts so the repetition and score based learning will help a lot.
I am cursed with enough musical memory that if I learn a piece from sheet music, my sight reading literally turns off and I play from some combination of muscle memory and ear. That might sound like a humblebrag, but it's not -it's quite frustrating to "work on reading" and then realize I'm not actually getting better at reading. When I come back to the material later, the short-term musical memory has usually faded…
This may sound crazy but my sight reading improved a lot after I took an ear training class that required me to work in arbitrary clefs. I always knew treble and bass from playing piano, and had really memorized the note positions in each.
When I was suddenly forced to work in tenor, alto, soprano, baritone clefs, I could no longer rely on memorization of note positions. I had to pivot to “reading intervals”. A fifth looks the same in any clef, so if you know the current note, and the next note is a fifth above, you know the next note too, clef be damned.
Re: Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)
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I can understand this sentiment in other contexts, but here? I'm not sure. They're exfiltrating how bad I can play sheet music? I'm not really sure if I see the problem?
It's also just app usage data NOT linked to identity, per their App Store page. Suggesting the developer is lying about this is a serious accusation, so I'd hope the parent commenter has some proof they'd like to share. Otherwise this is just another casualty in the headfirst slide into negativity on HN lately.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
My 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
I just learned via your post the term "sight reading" in English. French words and expressions when it comes to music are very different.
I'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.
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#40Excellent timing, as I was just looking at some apps to help get back into after 20 years away. I’ve noticed that a number of them, including yours, do include microphone input. That’s great since I only have an upright, but I wondered how well it actually works, especially with more complex drills, or if I should look at getting an affordable midi keyboard for the app-supported practice sessions?