Guitarfrets starts in à higher position

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 14:00
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I love your app very much, but for learning the higher positions of the guitar it would be great to select to start in higher positions, eg select the range from 5-12. De space will be bigger so it is easier to train. As second suggestion: improving sight reading is learning to recognize a group of note in a short moment, e.g. chords. So if I can select a group of notes and select the duration of it on the screen, it will highly improve mijn skill in staff reading. Thanks à lot for this nice programm. Jerome K Jerome

Higher frets

Submitted by ireadmusic on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 17:34.

Hi Jerome,

I'm working on allowing making that starting fret configurable. This has been on my to-do list forever and is just taking longer to implement than I had hoped. This will be in release 1.4 that I'm planning to release to Apple some time in October.

I agree about recognizing chords in passages greatly helps improve sight reading speed. If I understand your request you'd like to see a chord arpeggiated as single notes, right? As you have noticed currently we just display random notes within a user defined range. I like the idea, but just not too sure how to implement it in a user friendly way. First it seems like you'd want to see more than 4 notes displayed so you could spot patterns. Next I think you'd want a way to select a group of chords to be spread out in between a few random notes in a song.

From your perspective how would like this to work and what amount of chords would you find useful (major, minor, aug, inv, 7th, 9th,...)?

Bruce

Hi Bruce, I'm working with

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 07:30.
Hi Bruce, I'm working with your programm now for 10 days and it is really excellent. I improved my skills in reading with 30% in these days and reached the 100 barrier (so 140 is a limit too low I guess). I'll try to explain my last comment: Reading music is as reading words. First the child has to spell the letters and improved it has to recognize patterns: words. From now on it can archieve a certain speed. If it stays in the stage of spelling letters the reading abilities stay limited. Reading music looks like this. So if you really want to improve your reading skills you have to: 1 know the staffs thoroughly 2 know de incidental # and b. 3 recognize patterns of notes 4 make a representation of it for your instrument in your head 5 develop motoric and sensoric skills to play it actually on your instrument The weakest link in all this programms for staff reading is the ommision of recognizing patterns. So my suggestion is to present patterns: I prefer to choose a pattern of 1, 2, 3 or 4 notes. These patterns has to be shown a short time. I prefer to select:4, 3,2,1, or 0,5 secunds. It would be great if this patterns were chords: you will learn chord seeing too. But this is not really the point. The point is to present patterns of notes. By the way I solved the problem of the frets a little bit: an alternative way of training is to let the program generate notes which you can play on your keyboard or guitar.I hear for myself when I make a mistake. For guitar I can select a certain range of frets and play the notes in the position I want to train. I really hope you 'll use my suggestion. A lot of people could benefit of it. For me you really made the best musicprogramm for the Iphone. I'll place a relly good comment in the app Store with 5 stars (in my native language, that is a lot easier for me!) Thanks a lot! Jerome K Jerome

Groups of notes

Submitted by ireadmusic on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 15:54.
I think I understand the concept and I agree a grouping of notes would be helpful. I'm working on several other features and would like to be able to support some form of chords. I'll keep your suggestion in my mind as something I consider including down the road (groups of notes displayed and then disappear together).