It's been annoying me recently that even if I do put in a lot of time to learn something, I forget it after like a week! Makes me wonder whether proper pianists ever have some repertoire of pieces they can just play on a whim, or whether some revision is always necessary before a performance even if they've played it many times before...
I'm primarily a composer rather than a pianist, and I work in Sibelius so understanding notes and their placements on the staves has become (somewhat) natural to me because of that. I wonder though how many people are even using sheet music these days; I've got the impression a lot of people just use youtube videos or apps with notes as scrolling blocks in some kind of midi track format!
That sounds like a great and useful idea! I've used some apps to practice sight-reading that work similarly, but without randomness or adjustments based on skill level. I can see a whole lot of value in something like that!
I've had a not-entirely-dissimilar idea myself for a while, for a program where I can load midi versions of pieces, have them display as sheet music (or something close to it), and then it'd receive midi piano input to check for my accuracy playing. Any mistakes would be marked, and every time I play a section with any mistakes, the tempo would be reduced by something like 10%, down to maybe 50%. Playing a section without errors would increase the tempo by 10%. It's kind of what I've been doing anyway while trying to learn pieces, but having some way to automate and gamify it might help motivate me to learn more! Though of course I need to find the motivation to work on something like that at some point... which is elusive!
I'm primarily a composer rather than a pianist, and I work in Sibelius so understanding notes and their placements on the staves has become (somewhat) natural to me because of that. I wonder though how many people are even using sheet music these days; I've got the impression a lot of people just use youtube videos or apps with notes as scrolling blocks in some kind of midi track format!
That sounds like a great and useful idea! I've used some apps to practice sight-reading that work similarly, but without randomness or adjustments based on skill level. I can see a whole lot of value in something like that!
I've had a not-entirely-dissimilar idea myself for a while, for a program where I can load midi versions of pieces, have them display as sheet music (or something close to it), and then it'd receive midi piano input to check for my accuracy playing. Any mistakes would be marked, and every time I play a section with any mistakes, the tempo would be reduced by something like 10%, down to maybe 50%. Playing a section without errors would increase the tempo by 10%. It's kind of what I've been doing anyway while trying to learn pieces, but having some way to automate and gamify it might help motivate me to learn more! Though of course I need to find the motivation to work on something like that at some point... which is elusive!