First, the "Why" (aside from an evening of fun, etc.) (and thank you--I am glad that you found it at least amusing ^_^)
One thing I can think of is that it enables me to play music on any computer that I want without needing any special equipment aside from a sound card and the program, which if I put it on a website, I could get to from just about anywhere (Java and the Internet both being ubiquitous enough, these days, that that's pretty much all I would need).
That's really more of a tertiary benefit, though. The why of this particular program is that it's actually a stepping-stone to a more complex program which will, among other things, hopefully help me to read music in a manner similar to how that hammered dulcimer page I made awhile back does. Ultimately I'm hoping to hook it up to a MIDI enabled keyboard and be able to use that to play ^_^ So it's both a fun programming exercise and hopefully a way for me to get better at reading and playing music. Might even make a full-fledged game out of it, if I can work out the details ~grin~
First: I find notes significantly easier to read, but then I often don't actually bother to bring punctuation marks into sufficient focus to actually read them. I just get what ought to be there from context. And in this case there is only minimal context.
That makes sense, and I suspect and hope that as time goes by I'll also find myself in a similar place ^_^
Second: Would you be able to sight read a piece you didn't know from this notation, or is the "surprisingly easy to read" end of things a bias problem. You know the songs well enough to enter them, you entered them, is it any surprise that you can read the patterns inherent in the string you created?
It would probably be a little more challenging, in the sense that yes, I did create them first. However, I still think that it would be much much more easy for me to read this notation than sheet music, assuming I have at least passing familiarity with the song. If I didn't know the rhythm ahead of time, though, I'd pretty much be screwed (see aforementioned comment regarding difficulty indicating timing). It's more like... I'm not having to process it through my brain the way that I do when I'm reading sheet music. I just see "." and my brain knows to move my right ring finger down half an inch and press the key there--I don't have to consciously think about it. That's where I want to get with notes on a staff.
It is a string, right? Or do I have that technical term mis-defined?
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Date: 2007-09-12 09:07 pm (UTC)One thing I can think of is that it enables me to play music on any computer that I want without needing any special equipment aside from a sound card and the program, which if I put it on a website, I could get to from just about anywhere (Java and the Internet both being ubiquitous enough, these days, that that's pretty much all I would need).
That's really more of a tertiary benefit, though. The why of this particular program is that it's actually a stepping-stone to a more complex program which will, among other things, hopefully help me to read music in a manner similar to how that hammered dulcimer page I made awhile back does. Ultimately I'm hoping to hook it up to a MIDI enabled keyboard and be able to use that to play ^_^ So it's both a fun programming exercise and hopefully a way for me to get better at reading and playing music. Might even make a full-fledged game out of it, if I can work out the details ~grin~
First: I find notes significantly easier to read, but then I often don't actually bother to bring punctuation marks into sufficient focus to actually read them. I just get what ought to be there from context. And in this case there is only minimal context.
That makes sense, and I suspect and hope that as time goes by I'll also find myself in a similar place ^_^
Second: Would you be able to sight read a piece you didn't know from this notation, or is the "surprisingly easy to read" end of things a bias problem. You know the songs well enough to enter them, you entered them, is it any surprise that you can read the patterns inherent in the string you created?
It would probably be a little more challenging, in the sense that yes, I did create them first. However, I still think that it would be much much more easy for me to read this notation than sheet music, assuming I have at least passing familiarity with the song. If I didn't know the rhythm ahead of time, though, I'd pretty much be screwed (see aforementioned comment regarding difficulty indicating timing). It's more like... I'm not having to process it through my brain the way that I do when I'm reading sheet music. I just see "." and my brain knows to move my right ring finger down half an inch and press the key there--I don't have to consciously think about it. That's where I want to get with notes on a staff.
It is a string, right? Or do I have that technical term mis-defined?
You have it right--it's definitely a string ^_^