Etude sheet music app coming to iPhone, iPad

http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/03/15/etude-sheet-music-app-coming-to-iphone-ipad/

by dangrover • 16 years ago

33 23 16 years ago

This looks awesome. I love apps that go after markets that would typically be thought of as "unsexy".

From the looks of it you get the game like elements of a Rockband, but a longer term benefit of learning to read music. I imagine it will be kind of lame on the phone due to size, but with an iPad or keyboard accessory it will be amazing.

I'm not sure how big the market for sheet music is. However, consider the kind of people who learn to play instruments: children of well educated, affluent parents. The addressable market could be bigger than a lot of markets that seem large on PowerPoint slides, but are unaddressable because of market limitations (e.g. iLike).

If you can pay for a kid's piano lesson, a few dollars for sheet music will be nothing.

I'm really looking forward to this!

zzzmarcus• 16 years ago

There's also Tab Toolkit which is similar and very cool: http://www.agilepartners.com/apps/tabtoolkit/

jdalrymple• 16 years ago

Tab Toolkit is a great app.

puffythefish• 16 years ago

Is there anything like this for OS X?

stcredzero2• 16 years ago

Killer app: A sheet music display app that can recognize the 2nd to last measure and turn the page for you. Would also work if a parent could stand 30 feet away in the wings and flip the pages via Wifi or bluetooth.

apowell• 16 years ago

Just initiating a page turn by tapping the right half of the screen would be a dramatic improvement over paper.

smokinn• 16 years ago

Why flip pages at all?

I like yan's suggestion of detecting the music in the app and scrolling along as the person plays.

stcredzero2• 16 years ago

When the iPad gets a camera, the app could key off a particular color. A violinist could wear a special ring on the bowing hand with that color, which could be quickly waved at the camera to turn the page.

nandemo• 16 years ago

That would be nice on the Kinder: you tap something with your foot and it turns the page for you.

DannoHung• 16 years ago

How about this? You set the BPM, the sheet music starts with the first measure in the middle in a little highlighted pane, after enough beats the measure advances and the second measure is in the highlighted area. And you can have a metrnome ticking too. Maybe a visual cue of how many beats are left in the measure for a "silent practice" mode.

It'd be tricky if you have a changing tempo though.

yan2• 16 years ago

Feature brainstorming: Can it listen to the music the user is playing and figure out where in the piece the student is playing and scroll along as it's being played?

gyeh• 16 years ago

Heck, you can take this to the next level and make it a guitar hero game for real instruments. A lot of music teachers wouldn't have jobs anymore...

yan2• 16 years ago

The new GarageBand does that via a MIDI input..

wallflower• 16 years ago

This HN thread from the founder of an automated guitar chord transcription service and the Chords! WinAmp plug--in (k0ban) hints at the state-of-the-art of real-time music detection. Summary: Even beat detection is still a work in progress.

"Ask HN: Guitar Tabs Online"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033188

Shamiq• 16 years ago

If you're interested, the Northwestern Machine Perception of Music and Audio (EECS 352) has got a ton of material online:

http://music.cs.northwestern.edu/courses/eecs352/index.php

dwynings• 16 years ago

Nice work, Dan!

Etude sheet music app coming to iPhone, iPad

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