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Funny, I posted my (less cool) version of this exact idea last week: https://keybykey.app
Mine's based on the old electronic toy Simon - infinite and progressively more difficult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game)
You should definitely add midi controller support though - WebMidiJS makes it pretty simple.
This is really cool! As someone who has basically no piano training, this is fun! Perhaps there could be some super-easy mode where you actually highlight the keys while you're playing the sounds (in simon mode) to help the super noobs train their ears.
Thanks for the feedback - that should be pretty easy to add as an option in the Settings. I'll see about getting it added this evening!
I feel like "listen" should be the first, more prominent button and "start" should be moved to the end and renamed to something more meaningful like "ahh shit, give me a different one"
other than that, cool.
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I think it depends on your end goal. I have a great ear and am terrible at reading sheet music. Fine if you aspire to be a rock guitarist. Not so fine if you aspire to be a classical pianist. Funny, but I'm final tired of my poor sight reading and have set a goal for 2025 to average one hour of piano playing from sheet music per day. And I agree...a "mess around" mode on the app would be great. Feels almost punitive…
Hey RyanOD, If you're looking to improve your sight-reading and don’t mind playing church music, I highly recommend picking up a second-hand copy of an old Episcopal Church hymnal (I like the 1940 edition). All the pieces are four-voice and the rhythms are relatively simple, so you can concentrate on sight reading. Good luck! https://hymnary.org/hymnal/HPEC1940
Funny, but in church, I spend more time than maybe I should sight reading hymns during the sermon. :)
Nice! I was wondering to make something similiar for guitar. It is little weird that this is not widely used technique. Just blindly repeat the tone you hear, then move to tone sequences. Nice job!
Maybe add microphone support and listen to what people play on keyboard piano ?
Okay, okay, not quite (FFT libraries are a thing), but pressing buttons on a keyboard is leagues easier than reliably detecting (and filtering noise from) tones coming through a microphone! Not a bad suggestion though
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I've been playing piano for 40 years, tend to hate anything with AI-buzzwords anywhere adjacent to it. But I generally think this particularly one is a good thing. Curious what you mean by no attempt to teach. We learn multiplication tables by rote. Are flash cards a genuine instrument of learning? The only way to learn intervals is to practice identifying them. This is how you do it. You can read about music theory…
Imo not being able to select a subset of intervals to train heavily limits how useful this is.
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There are plenty of musicians here saying this is useful for them or would be useful while learning. As meta commentary, those not in a subgroup sometime fail to see utility of a thing built for that subgroup and it's easy to feel a sense of superiority "oh how dumb and trivial this thing is", but it may be better to first have curiosity and see how the intended audience responds. Often it's not dumb or trivial, you'…
I'd like more tries to pick out the notes when pecking at the on-screen keyboard. I don't need to hear the pattern again, I need to learn where the note pitches are on the keyboard.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll have to give this some thought. You mean something like a, "X Tries To Get the Next Note?". I could add it as an option.