6 comments

  • vunderba153 days ago
    I&#x27;m <i>VERY</i> familiar with Synthesia. In order to generate those animated videos of falling notes, a corresponding MIDI file for the song has to exist. I would think it&#x27;d be better in most situations to build the purported &quot;piano tablature&quot; off of that instead.<p>While neat from a technical perspective, this seems like a solution in search of a problem.<p><i>EDIT: On the other hand, a cursory search did not find any midi&#x2F;piano sheet music for &quot;Hi Nanna: Samayama&quot; - so maybe only having this &quot;falling note video&quot; is more common for certain music.</i>
    • catchmeifyoucan151 days ago
      Oh yes, there&#x27;s a lot of songs that are published in the tutorial video format, but the MIDI source isn&#x27;t shared.
  • thimabi153 days ago
    Great idea and execution, congratulations!<p>I used to learn songs from piano tutorials like these, too, and had to do the manual work of annotating keys and chords. It’s nice to see a very real pain point being eliminated — maybe I’ll even find some new songs to learn :)
  • amelius153 days ago
    I&#x27;d filter piano tutorials based on interesting music. Playing jingle bells (as in my first piano book) isn&#x27;t exactly motivating. I guess this especially holds for older people who have already acquired a certain musical taste.
  • jacquesm153 days ago
    I use Onsets and Frames to import youtube videos into my piano practice software. It works like a charm and I&#x27;m quite impressed with the accuracy of the transcription. I really don&#x27;t like the &#x27;piano roll&#x27; style software because that&#x27;s just not how music is represented in a logical way. Compared to regular sheet music it is a pretty poor medium.
  • tangue153 days ago
    This is really a great idea. While fancy these piano tuts are quite useless compared to something like guitar tabs. Hope it will improve
  • bcowde153 days ago
    I really like the idea of being able to import tutorial videos into a tab-like format. I have a tool which puts tabs into browser storage and displays them (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pianoboi.site&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pianoboi.site&#x2F;</a>) - It would be really cool to provide an import feature from your app.
    • catchmeifyoucan151 days ago
      Oh I love this. And it&#x27;d be really cool to see that.<p>The current output isn&#x27;t a particular format. It&#x27;s purely text output that looks like this.<p>1:01 -----|A1--B1|----A3--A4|<p>1:03 -----|A1--B1|--A3--A4|---B2|<p>If you had a way to copy and paste that as a string of notes and visualize in a loop or some-how that might work. You&#x27;d have to figure out how long a note was pressed etc, so it may require some extra logic.