For what?
Nootka /nuːtka/ is an application that helps understand the basics of music notation.
For sight reading and practice of playing musical scores.
Long story short: an user plays a note or a 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…
For Whom?
- If you read this, surely there is something!
- for guitarists – it was began writing for them – for beginners and for more advanced ones
- for all that want to develop theirs skills of playing and singing scores
- for all to develop musical hearing
- for teachers to support a progress of their students
- for teachers to measure progress of their students
- for parents of students to help their children
- for ear training – one may practicing musical dictations – write what Nootka is playing
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
- natural sound of supported instruments
- clefs (treble, bass and others) and grand stave
- analyze of results (charts)
- different kinds of guitars and theirs tuning
- also support for piano, bandoneon and saxophones (experimental)
- built-in metronome
- Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Slovenian and Russian translations
Why Nootka is Nootka?
What “Nootka” means, check please on Wikipedia. – it is quite verbose.
If we cast this word on a realm of Polish language, it means “little note” – very tendentious and poor name – although close to essence of the application.
My favorite meaning is the Ukrainian, where it is diminutive of Anna name and my daughter’s name is Anna…
I hope, you understand now that Nootka means more than only Nootka…