KLearnNotes2

Learn names of music notes fast and easy! :)

KLearnNotes2 helps learning the names of music notes.

In future KLearnNotes2 will be a full-featured music teacher (rhythm, scales, key signatures, chords) with special focus on guitar playing.

• a wise quick learning algorithm (focusing training on what a student knows the worst)

• a flexible lesson choice and a set of preset lessons focused on gradual learning of successive notes

• bass and treble clefs

• a flexible speed goal choice and a set of preset speed-goal levels (to encourage training for fast, automatic notes reading)

• two training modes:

  • static, vertical notes' positions (preparation for chord reading)

  • horizontal, game-style (preparation for sight-reading)

• voice recognition (you can answer questions with your voice!)

• sound output choice: standard, for guitar players or custom

Perfect for a music newbie and for an experienced musician trying to learn new stuff (for example a new staff ;).

Motivation:

I have had played the guitar for a long time, but I still had problems with quick recognition of very high and very low notes in the treble clef. Recently I started singing in a choir. Being a bass, I got bass-clef scores. Again learning which note comes where was a challenge.

When I saw Dominik Seichter's klearnnotes I thought it was a really good idea to use a computer to teach me all this. Unfortunately Seichter's klearnnotes had exactly what I knew and didn't have what I wanted to learn. This is where KLearnNotes2 stems from.

Main future goals (not included in version 1.2 yet):

• individual testnotes selection and after-test individually auto-designed lesson suggestions

• name-to-note (the other direction) exercise

• key signatures learning (sharps/flats; scales; major/minor chords)

• piano keyboard exercises (you can see first, unfinished version if you enable CVS features while compiling )

• guitar fretboard exercises