Dave Conservatoire - my attempt at a Khan Academy for music

http://www.daveconservatoire.org

by davidrees • 13 years ago

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davidrees5• 13 years ago

Just wanted to share where I'm up to with this - and would be really grateful for any ideas and feedback.

Also if there were any keen hackers out there who would be interested in donating their time and skills to the project, that would be excellent.

I'm a musician and only a relatively new hacker and so I could certainly do with some help to make the site's software more robust!

hexd• 13 years ago

Will you put videos about computer music and signal processing? Perhaps this package might be useful for that: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/audiolazy

davidrees5• 13 years ago

I'd certainly like to get to covering computer music and sig processing at some point - and will definitely check out audiolazy. Thanks!

karanbhangui• 13 years ago

Don't have a musical bone in my body (except playing the recorder in elementary school), but it's time I learned!

Very well done so far, you've obviously worked hard on this and it shows.

edit: curious why you chose the french version over the english 'conservatory'

davidrees5• 13 years ago

Thanks! Really appreciate the feedback. In the UK, conservatory tends to mean a glass room on the back of your house - we use conservatoire for music school!

urlwolf• 13 years ago

Amazing idea. With today's technology, anyone with enough motivation can write music for an orchrestra from a bedroom. What we see is many newcomers realizing they are going to need some music theory an harmony if they want to be any good (myself included). I think there's a market for this.

How do you plan to monetize it?

davidrees5• 13 years ago

No plans to monetize - want to stay free and open for everyone. Will look for funding and donations as a non-profit.

JoeAcchino• 13 years ago

This is great.

Just a minor note (ah!): the number "1" on the left on my name on the top right corner made me think I had some welcome message in my inbox so I tried to click it.

Ok, time to watch some videos. I'll use this as teoric complement of justinguitar.com

davidrees5• 13 years ago

Ah ha - so that's your current score. It isn't a fully fleshed out feature, but they idea is you'd get points for completing exercises etc! But yes, at the moment it looks like a message in your inbox!

Dave

davesmylie• 13 years ago

Cool idea. It's comes along just as I've ordered a pile of music theory (for newbies) books - but they wont turn up for another few days.

It'll be good to work through these videos at the same time =)

I'm up to part 9 of the basic lessons and so far they're looking pretty good!

Dave Conservatoire - my attempt at a Khan Academy for music

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