Fun Notation
What's the idea?
This is my experimentation on musical notations.
Want to create some applications to help me to visualize music, practice easier, and provide nicer way to show scores or tabs.
Some of current tried ideas:
Color and shapes for notes and chords
Guitar tabs to show both pitch and durations for notes
What's implemented?
Guitar Tab + Melody + Lyrics
Features:
- audio for each notes, sound quality not good enough (esp. in browser)
- guitar fretboard synced with current played notes
- A/B repeat for selected bars
Try in browser Note that the web version is only working in desktop browser, the touch input is not working on mobile browsers yet.
Desktop versions can be downloaded from releases.
Get source code to run on your machine.
How it's built?
The current version is writted in Rust, on top of Bevy Engine, started as a demo to learn both the language and the game engine, but got much progress and show some potentials quickly.
At this moment, there is no visual editor yet, instead a DSL in Rust is created to write tabs (also serving learning purpose at the first place), it's far from perfect, and got me quite some headaches some time, but did learned a lot, and some part of it is really nice. Plan to write some blogposts later on this topic.
What's the plan?
Will try to make the guitar tab part useful for myself first, do more experiments on visual representation for music, then maybe release some applications or maybe games in the future.
Some Inspirations
Chromesthesia Color for Notes
Most colorful notation systems using rainbow colors for notes, but I found this chromesthesia system is much better for me to feel the music, especially when apply the colors to chords.
Hook Theory
This is really awesome, have tons of materials for music learning, also has a very powerful web application.
Groove Pizza
Very nice web application to visualize rhythm.