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Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)
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Re: Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)
#92I'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?
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)
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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)
#94Guitar 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.
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#95Guitar 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?
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 ...
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
I learned that as you get older, if you don't use it, you lose it.
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#100- Nice logo
- Clear, engaging screenshots
- Solid title/subtitle with relevant keywords
- Amazing reviews and ratings
Really well done!