Hi there!

I am actually going to get real bass lessons with the great Gerben Brys :) I am excited, and look forward to it.

The Akademie invites (forces) me to practice musical theory. Which I am bad at. More a rhythm person, I decided to skipped the introductory year.

A common task is to parse a note on sheet music, to some mental representation (e.g. a “C”), to a note played on the guitar.

And I would like to track my practicing progress.

Here is the recipe for a simple python program:

• used “lilypond” with latex to get very basic note sheets:
  • https://martin-thoma.com/how-to-write-music-with-latex/
  • https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/writing-pitches
  • see <notes.tex> for raw notes (no sharps/flats yet); lilypond-book --output=out --pdf notes.tex produces subfolders with little pdf sheets
• converted the LaTeX pdf to svg and further to png:
  • pdf2svg test.pdf test.svg && inkscape -w 1024 test.svg -b white -o test.png
• write a tiny python script which displays a note and records time

For practice, I would stand on my computer, which displays a random note,

• which I say out loud,
• then play on the bass,
• and press any key on my keyboard to record time.

Nothing fancy. I use it from the linux terminal and exit by [ctrl]+[c]. Maybe this is of use for anyone.

Enjoy yourselves!

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