A Melodic Trainer, Tempo Trainer, and Music Generator featuring multiple instrument sounds. View live at (https://ashthomasweb.github.io/personal--music-trainer/).
Project Name
"Musician's Ear Trainer"
Table of Contents
General Info
This is a music ear-training application. Requires audio enabled. Relative Pitch memory trainer. Includes a music generator with classically voiced SATB four part harmony. The melodic trainer features multiple instrument sounds, multiple modes to practice, a 'free' mode, light-up notes, custom key-bindings, and custom user-assigned colors. Pitch memory comes in many forms, the idea of the musical trainer is to give the user many different options to personalize the musical and learngin experience, as well as choices that may not be witin their familiar listening pallete.
Technologies
- WebAudio API
- HTML5
- CSS3
- ES6
Features
- Customizable color association in melodic trainer.
- Infinite harmonic generator.
To-do List:
- Create Melodic Dictation Trainer.
- Implement local storage for generator default values.
- Add 'Tonic Start' and 'Accidental Mode' to score history.
- Add user interaction on generator
- Add percussion bank.
- Add Violin and Contrabass to generator.
Known Issues
- Generator: undefined value occuring occasionally for unknown reason in alto voice. Does not interrupt playback. Seems to only happen in alto, perhaps surrounding times where the voice drifts from it's initial range. Adding individual voice range suppport may solve issue.
- Generator: When the voice drifts out of it's given range due to voice-leading considerations, the associated gainNode cannot mute previous note, and overlap can occur, producing unwanted dissonance. Most likely happening during resolution direction or chord member check functions.
- B Section tonality change is not returning to home key in Tail section.
Status
Project is: in development.
Inspiration
I built a memory game during my career transition that inspired me to connect my first career with my new one. Synesthesia and color hearing both led me to include color choice options. While teaching, I used to say that if music theory was programmed into a computer, what came out would sound surprisingly familiar and even pretty at times, with minimal awkwardness.
Contact
Created by Ashley Thomas (https://www.ashthomasweb.com/) - feel free to contact me!