Playing the TwinNote note and interval identification game (on the practice page) was not always that musically pleasing…  until now.  When playing on the “all notes” setting (naturals, sharps, and flats) the notes used to be selected at random from the set of all twelve notes of the chromatic scale.  Needless to say, the result would sound quite atonal. Continue reading →

On the practice page you will find a new version of the note and interval identification game.  In the previous version it would only show one note or interval at a time (like flash cards), but now it can show as many as ten notes or intervals at a time. The default is four at a time, but you can customize how many are shown at once, including one at a time like before.  Continue reading →

It has been a productive couple of months on various fronts, especially with ongoing work on LilyPond and TwinNote (adventures in coding in Scheme). Here is a progress report from early 2013. Continue reading →

While working on LilyPond Templates for TwinNote I revised the note head shapes to make them more aesthetically pleasing and easier to read.  Here is a “close-up” illustration comparing the previous straight triangle shapes (top), the new rounded triangle shapes (middle), and traditional oval notes (bottom). Continue reading →

LilyPond offers a nice set of templates to help you get started.  Sheet music for piano with lyrics?  There’s a template for that.  Single staff with chord names printed above it?  There’s a template for that.  And now… Sheet music in TwinNote music notation?  There are now templates for that as well. Continue reading →

Inspired by these online music educational games, and building on the code for the TwinNote AudioVisualizer, I created a flash-card-style note and interval identification game for learning TwinNote.  Give it a try!  It demonstrates how you can learn to identify all the different intervals based simply on their appearance in TwinNote Continue reading →

While Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is nice, let’s just say that it doesn’t really show off the potential of TwinNote all that well.  So it’s time to step things up with a TwinNote version of Für Elise by Ludwig Van Beethoven — now available to download and print. Continue reading →