F(OS)S for Learning a Musical Instrument ?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 31, 2006 @08:05PM from the a-software-conductor dept.

Anonymous Musician asks: "Recently I took up learning to play the violin (at age 37) and it is great fun. I found two little software tools to be of good help: Wired Metronome (Windows binary, free to download) to keep a steady beat, and TS-AudioToMIDI (Windows binary, shareware, 30 days free trial), using a microphone and built-in sound-card to detect in real time the note I am playing (I admit, sometimes it is more like a noise) and have it displayed on a piano keyboard to check and train my tuning. What tools, freeware or FOSS, are you using to assist you with learning to play an instrument?"

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OLGA by darnok · 2006-08-31 20:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The OnLine Guitar Archive (OLGA) is a great resource for getting melodies and chord arrangements for zillions of songs. Although I play guitar, I find it very valuable for keyboard as well, and I suspect you would for violin.

Also check out Audacity (audio editor) - runs on Windows, Linux and Mac