I've been playing Synthesia for a couple of months now and I'm up to the Hard level in the G-major music theory pack included with the game. Now that i'm starting to branch out into non-Synthesia music, I'm finding quite a few of the songs I want to play don't have midi versions(or don't have good midi versions) and only provide sheet music. Which I never bothered learning.
I'm having to go back and practice reading from sheets. I actually know how to read sheets, because for some reason I remember all of my trumpet playing in middle school. So what i'm doing is working on just knowing at-a-glance what notes on the staff translate to what keys on the keyboard. You might guess I could do this with the included music, and I have been, but there's been a concern: ALL of it is in the same key! If I want to improve my sight reading(my ability to just start playing sheet rather than studying it first) I need to practice in as many keys as possible.
So what I'm looking for are useful midis for that. Just midis in different keys that I can use to practice my sight reading, preferably using as much of the keyboard as possible.
Useful midis for learning sheet music?
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- Laserbeak43
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I've recently gotten SmartScore X MIDI Edition from the Music&Arts store for 9.99(39.99 on the website now, the sale ended) and so far i've been using it to accompany me witht he book "The Legend of Zelda Series for Easy Piano"
I suck at music theory at the moment, so i'm not going to be really helpful in that area, but this might be a great way to help you learn a book. I'm also going to use this for my Chopin collection. as well as Jass Hannon XD
I suck at music theory at the moment, so i'm not going to be really helpful in that area, but this might be a great way to help you learn a book. I'm also going to use this for my Chopin collection. as well as Jass Hannon XD
Better would be if Synthesia would have a simple semi-tone-transpose function, similar as in VanBasco Karaoke Player, in a range -12 .. +12, then you could easily and quickly transpose any available midi to a different key, thus practicing the notes there, of course falling notes and sheet notes should show the new transposed notes. In essence Nicholas only needs to add to the midi playback engine only a variable transpose for played_pitch, now what we have isFatbird wrote:You might guess I could do this with the included music, and I have been, but there's been a concern: ALL of it is in the same key! If I want to improve my sight reading(my ability to just start playing sheet rather than studying it first) I need to practice in as many keys as possible.
So what I'm looking for are useful midis for that. Just midis in different keys that I can use to practice my sight reading, preferably using as much of the keyboard as possible.
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played_pitch := pitch_in_midi
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played_pitch := pitch_in_midi + pitch_transpose