Nootka helps understand the basics of music notation:
reading and practicing playing musical scores.
Long story short: the user plays notes (melody) displayed by the app,
which then in real time checks if the notes was played correctly.
The application is free and open source.
It works under Windows, Linux, Mac and Android...
Features
- interactive interface to discover the rules of musical notation
- exercises where user can play or may guess a note on a score or its name
- possibility to create own rules for exercises
- accurate method for detecting sung and played sounds and melodies
- analyze of results (charts)
- different kinds of guitars, piano, bandoneon and saxophones
- Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Slovenian and Russian translations
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Recent Releases
2.0.216 Aug 2021 21:58
major feature:
Nootka plays ukulele: added ukulele support with defined popular tunings; dialog to import voice or part from entire musicXML score; support for read/write compressed musicXML file format (*.mxl); handle partial measure at score beginning - fill with rests; option for transposing score - to key or by semitones
2.0.006 Jun 2021 10:50
minor feature:
This is a big (the biggest so far) release with a few but crucial features:
- rhythms
- new instruments (piano, bandoneon, saxophones)
- importing melodies from musicXML and using them in exercises
- refreshed/modernized user interface
1.9.1-rc216 May 2021 11:20
minor feature:
- chart tip can be clicked to show complete melody of question
- level creator can display preview of entire melody
- updated Hungarian translation
- version checker/updater was ported to QML
- fixed and improved saxophone support
- fixed displaying note names over instrument during exercises
- fixed crash after some of 'Got It!' popup
- a lot of small fixes
- Android better fit to different screen sizes and layouts
1.9.018 Apr 2021 15:12
minor feature:
- interactive interface to discover the rules of musical notation
- exercises where user can play or can guess a note on a score or its name
- possibility to create own rules for exercises
- accurate method for detecting sung and played sounds and melodies
- natural sound of instruments
- clefs (treble, bass and others) and grand stave
- analyze of results (charts)
- different kinds of guitars and theirs tuning
- support piano, bandoneon and saxophones
- built-in metronome
- Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Slovenian and Russian translations