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Comment by chrisd1100 | Hacker News Reader

As a guy who is learning the piano but doesn't know how to read sheet music very well, I'm really excited about this as a learning tool. Would it be possible to show the letter notes next to the notes on the sheet music? Also, how easy is it to incorporate new pieces... could I potentially submit sheet music that I have purchased and you could convert it for me for a fee?

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Yes, I am exploring adding more functionality to it, and one thing that I'd like myself (and I think, you too), is piano tutoring.

For example, it could play a certain section once, then repeat it, but without sound, while the student plays, and then continue in a loop like that until the student feels comfortable with that particular section.

I'm sure there are many other things that could be done in that realm too, so feel to tweet or email me anything that comes to mind (@notezillaio / notezilla.io@gmail.com)

As for incorporating new pieces, it's definitely technically doable and it seems that that's something people are interested in. There might be certain copyrights issues that have to be ironed out first though... ;)

If you're wanting to get better at reading sheet music you really should not have notes being shown. It will be harder to read but that just means you need to start simpler and build up over time. If you get used to reading notes it will always be a crutch you have to work with, and instead of sight-reading the notes themselves you'll be more accustomed to sight-reading the letters.

You might be right about that. I still find though that the most daunting part about learning something new for me is grinding through writing the notes in on the sheet music then "sounding it out" going back and forth from my computer/ipod/ipad getting the timing right. This tool seems to wrap it all up into one neat learning process, perhaps one day after using it enough with "notes on" I could uncheck that box and go pure sight reading.

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