Learn to play the piano with MuseScore piano monitoring
In my spare time, I taught children and teenagers how to play the guitar and a bit of piano. When playing the piano, I was often asked by the boys if there was any software that could monitor or control their piano playing.
While searching, I came across MuseScore for the first time, as they had a plugin that tried to implement this.
Unfortunately, I can't look up the name of the plugin at the moment. It doesn't work properly either.
Maybe someone knows if there is a better version now.
Function description:
Version 1
Open own songs.
The blue cursor marks the note to be played.
If the note is played correctly, the cursor jumps to the next note.
If the note is played incorrectly, the cursor stops.
Version 2
Like version 1, but you can play over mistakes.
Open your own songs.
The blue cursor marks the note to be played.
If the note is played correctly, the cursor jumps to the next note.
Is the note played incorrectly?
The wrong notes are written in red.
If the note is played correctly again in the next bar or the bar after that, it will be colored green again.
The piano player can then always find the right note to play, as it is marked in blue by the cursor.
Especially when you look at the keyboard and then look back at the notes, you never know exactly where you are in the notes. You have to reorient yourself.
This would help many beginners and visually impaired people, as the blue cursor always indicates the notes to be played.
I remember that the plugin from MuseScore at that time often got stuck.
However, the biggest problem was that for a half note the piano key had to be pressed exactly two beats and for a whole note the piano key had to be pressed exactly four beats.
Fast legato playing or playing with the pedal was therefore not possible
Other programs such as Piano Marvel have solved the problem by only monitoring that the piano keys are pressed at the right moment, but not how long the piano key must be pressed.
This makes legato playing, fast playing and playing with pedal possible.
(Beginners often play very slowly as they have to search for the notes. This lacks musical coherence and makes it difficult to hear by ear whether you are playing correctly or incorrectly. )
The plugin would also help a lot to find out whether you are playing the right notes.
Looking up and down from the keyboard to the notes would also be much easier.
Other programs do not have the option of loading your own songs for practicing
It is also not possible to change the fingerings. Everything is predefined.
MuseScore has its own notation program as a basis.
Many plugins, such as rhythm counter
fingering, creator
etc
That's why it would be great if this were possible in MuseScore.
What do you think?
Is there now such a plugin in MuseScore?
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Comments
This looks way beyond the capabilities available via the MuseScore Plugin API but maybe someone with more plugin experience knows otherwise. The capabilites are really geared towards score processing rather than playback.
In reply to This looks way beyond the… by yonah_ag
@yonah_ag
I have found the plugin.
It is called MIDI Sight Reader
It is described on this page. Should you go with it or?
https://musescore.org/de/project/midi-sight-reader
The developer writes here under DonH.
Unfortunately, I don't speak English well.
Would be nice if that would help.
https://musescore.org/en/node/55701
Vielen Dank
Frank