Holy cow, that's a well-made app. You dangrover are either a passionate music lover, an excellent developer, or both. Kudos - I don't even play the piano but I'm going to buy it just so that people that make software like this are rewarded!
Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
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Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
#52I'm really excited about the iPad app. Imagine sitting down at a piano, putting a iPad where you would normally put sheet music, and playing away with your app auto-scrolling so the musician never has to deal with a page turn. Anyone who has ever played piano knows how amazing it would be to have that eliminated. What a great learning device that would be! Kudos and I eagerly await the iPad version!
Sheet music is truly one killer app for the iPad. I had never thought of it before seeing this app, but even if it's something as simple as scanned .PDFs of your sheet music, imagine not having to carry around backpacks full of books. I have a lot of jazz fake books that are literally monstrous to carry around.
The iPad's the right size (ever balanced a laptop on its side on a piano's music desk?), and a touchscreen would certainly be convenient for turning pages and annotating scores.
Personally, I'd rather see that app on the Kindle DX, or a device with a similar screen. My eyes suffer enough already from all their computer time.
(If the app were on an Android device such as the Nook, I'd turn the pages with voice commands.)
Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
#53I'm really excited about the iPad app. Imagine sitting down at a piano, putting a iPad where you would normally put sheet music, and playing away with your app auto-scrolling so the musician never has to deal with a page turn. Anyone who has ever played piano knows how amazing it would be to have that eliminated. What a great learning device that would be! Kudos and I eagerly await the iPad version!
This app really does look like it is a match for the iPad. I would consider doing this: A) Make the iphone app free or 1$, get as many users as possible B) Approach whoever owns rights to sheet music, music lessons, etc C) Allow them to sell premium content through your app and you take 50% of the profits
I disagree wholeheartedly. Make money now. Don't leave it on the table. Sell 50,000 (or 100k! or 200k!) copies at $3 or $5, and then approach sheet music copyright holders.
Copy the business model that Tapulous uses for Tap Tap Revenge: I should be able to download a Ben Folds-branded copy of Etude, and then a separate Beethoven app, and then a separate Liszt app. Each one should cost five bucks. And then user should be able to buy EVEN MORE CONTENT via in-app purchases.
Showing content owners that you've already made a million dollars (or whatever) is much more compelling than vague hand-waving about market share and potential of an installed user base.
I get really frustrated with this notion that newly released software should be free, or that monetization potential is always increased by giving something away. Who knows what might happen tomorrow?
Perhaps an app significantly better than Etude will soon be released. Maybe Dan Grover will get bored of working on Etude. It's possible that sheet music copyright holders could even be dumber than music labels, and they'll be unwilling to cut a deal.
There's money to be made, and the best way to make it in the short term is to sell the app.
Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
#54All I can say is wow. Not only is the app super intuitive, but genuinely useful and usable.
On top of that, you have a real eye for design.
Great job, I wish you the best.
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#55That made me want to play piano again. I sucked but it looks like using it I could get better a lot faster.
An ipad version would definitely be a plus. Hope you got that planned ! :)
Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
#56I'm really excited about the iPad app. Imagine sitting down at a piano, putting a iPad where you would normally put sheet music, and playing away with your app auto-scrolling so the musician never has to deal with a page turn. Anyone who has ever played piano knows how amazing it would be to have that eliminated. What a great learning device that would be! Kudos and I eagerly await the iPad version!
That's one of the first thing I though of when I heard about the ipad. I had figured an app for the iphone that used its mic to follow a piano piece along and "turn" the pages would have been cool but for the tiny screen. Then ipad came along. How hard would it be to use the mic input to estimate progress through a piece and turn the pages? Of course just using timing to scroll at the right speed would be ok, but hav…
Using timing to scroll eliminates the ability for the player to add any speed variations in a piece, which most experienced players would.
It's a fun app for the common folk, but useless to experienced players.
Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
#57I'm really excited about the iPad app. Imagine sitting down at a piano, putting a iPad where you would normally put sheet music, and playing away with your app auto-scrolling so the musician never has to deal with a page turn. Anyone who has ever played piano knows how amazing it would be to have that eliminated. What a great learning device that would be! Kudos and I eagerly await the iPad version!
This app really does look like it is a match for the iPad. I would consider doing this: A) Make the iphone app free or 1$, get as many users as possible B) Approach whoever owns rights to sheet music, music lessons, etc C) Allow them to sell premium content through your app and you take 50% of the profits
Apple only keeps 30%
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#58This is quite possibly the first thing I've ever seen that makes me want an iPhone. I hope you release something like it for real computers eventually.
I agree that this app would be awesome if it ran on real computers. It would be amazing if the app could track the user's progress/ability using MIDI and be able to show errors / redo problematic parts as well. More of an emphasis on learning and improving than just playing. I have been wanting something like this for a long time...
Re: Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's one of the first thing I though of when I heard about the ipad. I had figured an app for the iphone that used its mic to follow a piano piece along and "turn" the pages would have been cool but for the tiny screen. Then ipad came along. How hard would it be to use the mic input to estimate progress through a piece and turn the pages? Of course just using timing to scroll at the right speed would be ok, but hav…
Using timing to scroll eliminates the ability for the player to add any speed variations in a piece, which most experienced players would. It's a fun app for the common folk, but useless to experienced players.
Some really basic audio recognition should enable the software to figure out the current position on the sheet, hence making it useful for experienced players as well.
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#60I got an email about it this morning and I picked it up. Haven't gotten a chance to try it yet but thanks for making it.