Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

lend-me-your-ears.specr.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 177 posts

Re: Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

#81

Post by vunderba »

catapart wrote: post #12

Just a quick compatibility issue: for some reason, my midi board triggers a key input both when I press it down, and when I let it go. I'm assuming that it might just be something wrong with my board, but I did want to let you know in case there might be some nuance you haven't considered with respect to the midi commands. I know my first crack at it didn't distinguish between note-on and note-off commands, for insta…

Hey catapart,

Thanks for the feedback. Oof that's weird. Maybe I'm triggering some kind of odd aftertouch?

EDIT: Just saw ta2112's note. That's super helpful I'm definitely only responding to standard MIDI NOTE_ON and NOTE_OFF messages.

I'll try to get this fixed this evening.

Re: Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

#82

Post by vunderba »

Bewelge wrote: post #79

Very cool! Love the simplicity of this. Built a similar mode in Midiano (also a midi webapp, but focused on playing MIDI files). But this is much cleaner for a quick exercise. Mine never really got past the prototype stage though. Safe to say, I'll be coming back to this thread for ideas when I do get around working on it again :)

Thanks Bewelge! I took a look at Midiano - it's very polished! Were you inspired by Synthesia? I know it has a combination of falling note + sheet notation as well~

https://synthesiagame.com

Re: Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

#83

Post by dvt »

vunderba wrote: post #56
Fraterkes wrote: post #13

[flagged]

[flagged]

Hacker News has become weirdly anti-hacker in the last 5 or so years, so please keep building stuff and keep posting it. This is literally what HN is supposed to be. The "AI slop" tirade is just bottom of the barrel bandwaggoning for upvotes because it's popular to hate AI today

Re: Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

#84

Post by vunderba »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #80

Love this!! One improvement that would help me a lot is to control the playback speed. My brain needs to start a bit slower as some of the sequences are fairly fast for my brain right now. Thank you

Derp - I didn't even think about adding a control for min/max tempo ranges.

The defaults are currently

- Simon is set to 100-120 BPM

- Practice mode is set to 90-160 BPM

I'll add it to the Settings later this evening. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

#88

Post by viccis »

Fraterkes wrote: post #13

[flagged]

I think this is much better as a relative pitch training tool for people with a very basic background in piano and music in general. I would have loved something like this back in high school to use for practicing over and over.

I think "teach" is a high bar, but I do think it's a good practice tool.

My one and only complaint is that sometimes the melodies it generates are tough to play back because they don't really sound like a real melody and I have to fight my brain telling me to play back the one that would actually sound good. Sort of like having to memorize a random string of words vs memorizing a normal sentence.

Re: Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

#89

Post by vunderba »

ipsum2 wrote: post #10

I have a really niche use case that this fulfills. I have perfect pitch, but terrible working memory (can't remember more than 4 notes at time). This is a nice way to try to improve it.

Very nice! One of my friends is the exact opposite: they have a pretty poor sense of pitch but a prodigious working memory. They can take a brief glance at a couple of pages of sheet music and instantly reproduce it.

Hope this helps you on your musical journey~

Post reply on HN