This is an archived post from 2020, when this blog was about music and web development. My current work focuses on AI agent security and compliance — see the newer posts.
After testing the Note Reading Trainer for the last few weeks I have decided to change the way the reading mode works.
From now on, there are fewer options to choose from — there is only one button per note regardless of the octave. This means you’ll have to click on ‘C’, no matter if it’s the first, second or third ‘C’ that’s displayed on the staff. This is because it is very easy to see which octave the note belongs to, and because it was easy to guess the correct note by comparing the distances of the notes on the staff to the distances between the buttons.
There will be more changes in the future. At this point though, I don’t know what will change.
I also plan to implement different difficulty levels, as the interval reading mode in its current form is much too difficult — at least for me. I also recently read that not all intervals are equally common. A frequency distribution could be an interesting basis for difficulty settings.
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