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

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I'm trying it and I love it! can I ask you a question? I'm not playing piano since at least 15 years, but why are you using C,D,E,etc instead of the real notes? I found an option to enable do,re,mi,etc but it's only applying on the piano notes instead of the middle screen "note" to play

Am I missing something?

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

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I'm trying it and I love it! can I ask you a question? I'm not playing piano since at least 15 years, but why are you using C,D,E,etc instead of the real notes? I found an option to enable do,re,mi,etc but it's only applying on the piano notes instead of the middle screen "note" to play Am I missing something?

> instead of real notes?

C, D, ... are real notes? Some countries do Solfège, some don't.

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

#93
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Indeed! When I first learnd that the English equivalent of... Do Ré Mi Fa Sol La Si Do ... is... C D E F G A B C ... it blew my mind :D I mean, I can see the point in using letters instead of words, alright. But why in that order? Even today I can't find the origin/reason for that -- apart from "It's a German thing" apparently. It could be just that the "German key notation") and the "Fixed Do key notation" were each…

> But why in that order? Well, it's in the alphabetical order.

Maybe more importantly, it is in that specific order because it is the key of C major! The A major scale is for example would be A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯, and G♯ ...

In fixed Solfège, that would become La Si Do ... but in movable Solfège, Do would be A, Re would be B ...

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

#94

Guitar player here. App looks great, but shame it's only for piano. I used a different app that does pretty much the same thing and really benefited from it, the improvement was noticeable after each session. If you add guitar support it will be an immediate download for me.

Why not use Tab notation for guitar?

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

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post #94

Guitar player here. App looks great, but shame it's only for piano. I used a different app that does pretty much the same thing and really benefited from it, the improvement was noticeable after each session. If you add guitar support it will be an immediate download for me.

Why not use Tab notation for guitar?

There are some settings where it's good for a guitar player to be able to sight read. If you're playing for random bands, or playing classical, it can be a big help.

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

#96
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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!

Oh of course, if you just want to practice sight reading on your own, correct pitch is irrelevant, but if you want to use an app like this and have it follow along and check if you’re accurate with your sight reading, you have to agree with the app on pitch!

Can you change the tempo or something to slide around on the first note until you find the pitch it wants?

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

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> But why in that order? Well, it's in the alphabetical order.

Maybe more importantly, it is in that specific order because it is the key of C major! The A major scale is for example would be A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯, and G♯ ... In fixed Solfège, that would become La Si Do ... but in movable Solfège, Do would be A, Re would be B ...

yeah but why isn't C major called A major

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

#98
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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!

It becomes important if you play with other people though

Even then, you need to tune against those other people. Perfect pitch is not so precise that everyone can just start on exactly the same note hah.

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

#99
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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!

Classic Joke: How do you know a person has perfect pitch?

I learned that as you get older, if you don't use it, you lose it.

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