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  1. Re:A good start, but still some holes to fill. by phliar · · Score: 2, Informative · on Linux as A Musician's OS?

    ... actually what I want is an application that provides a singing tutor.

    You need ear training. No need to buy an expensive tool for that, here's a flash program to practice intervals:

    Interval Trainer (Yes, it works under Linux.)

    The site has a bunch of other flash tools, but I think the interval trainer is the most useful.

  2. MusicTheory.net by Lord+Satri · · Score: 5, Informative · on F(OS)S for Learning a Musical Instrument ?

    Nice, the comments provide tools I didn't know before :-) Here's another one:
    http://www.musictheory.net/
    It's a free bunch of good flash-based music trainers (downloadable for offline use).

  3. Re:Possibly... by Alioth · · Score: 1 · on Software for Your Musical Instruments?

    If you want to learn to read music off a staff, you have to get to the stage where it's like reading words on a page - you don't want to have to look at a note and think 'FACE', erm, therefore that's a C. You want to just see the note and immediately play the note without having to think what it is - just like you're reading this text without having to think about it.

    There are some good 'flash card' trainers to help learn to read music like you can read letters on a page. http://www.musictheory.net/ is a good start and it's free (but requires Flash).

  4. Free alternatives by JavaRob · · Score: 1 · on Software for Your Musical Instruments?

    I'd definitely encourage getting comfortable with at least basic music theory and sight-reading as part of learning any instrument. Not because you'll need it right at the beginning... but it's the sort of thing that's simple to learn gradually, but pretty painful when you hit the wall later and want to absorb it all at once.

    Musition and Aurelia are okay, though aging a bit and not cheap. There are similar resources available online for free.

    And now, a bit of shameless self-promotion:
    I run a website with free music theory exercises and explorations of music theory concepts. Requires Java 1.1 or above.
    Feel free to send me feedback through the site or here.

    Musictheory.net is another site I recommend fairly often, with Flash-based music theory lessons and some exercises. EMusicTheory (my site) focusses on drills, not tutorials, so when students are having trouble understanding the concepts in the first place I tend to send them here.

  5. Re:How do you get to Carnagie Hall? by damiam · · Score: 1 · on Software for Your Musical Instruments?
    As a violinist, I've never found any software that was particularly helpful as far as assisting practice goes. For tuning, you're far better off buying a dedicated tuner - you can buy combo tuner/metronome gadgets for $30 or less in most places. Other than that, your best resources are a good teacher, good exercise books, and a lot of persistance.

    Depending on your goals as a musician, you may find notation software (like Sibelius) or ear training software (like the free Flash trainers at musictheory.net) to be helpful, but neither of those is going to help you with violin technique.

  6. Re:Open Source Music software [plug] by JavaRob · · Score: 1 · on The Place Of Modern MIDI Music?

    Music Theory (free, not oss): http://www.musictheory.net/

    musictheory.net is a good one; I'd also like to toss my site out there, emusictheory.com -- also pretty popular for free (non-OSS) interactive music theory drills.

    BTW -- musictheory.net uses Flash; emusictheory.com uses Java applets.

    [wow; so rare I get to actually make a plug somewhat on topic!]

  7. Open Source Music software by Lord+Satri · · Score: 3, Informative · on The Place Of Modern MIDI Music?

    This is not a complete list, but Reason and GarageBand are not free nor open source, so these links might be useful:

    - ardour, Digital Audio workstation / http://ardour.org/
    - Rosegarden, audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment / http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
    - LilyPond, music notation / http://lilypond.org/web/
    - MusE MIDI/Audio sequencer / http://muse.serverkommune.de/
    - Audacity, music editing station / http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
    - Music Theory (free, not oss): http://www.musictheory.net/ and http://andyvn.ath.cx/Software-Aquallegro.php
    - general link: http://linux-sound.org/

    Cheers :-)