Now you have your personalized sight reading exercises and you have shared them on your WordPress site. The only thing you have to do now is practice! With the iOS App Practice Bird, you can simply add your MusicXML file and get feedback in real-time when you play!
Read moreDo you have your own WordPress site? OSME makes it even easier for you to embed your MusicXML sheet music! Find out how by watching the video below!
Read moreOnce you have created your personalized sight reading exercises, I am sure you want to share them with friends, family and fellow musicians. We have made it even easier for you to do so by developing a way to generate an embed code for your MusicXML file with only a few clicks!
Read moreIf you want to generate unique MusicXML Sight Reading Exercises, you can now do so with OSME! It is completely free and most importantly .. easy! Here is a short video to show you how it’s done!
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This is a follow-up article for From Idea to Sketch.
The first thing to check was a good framework to start with. We decided to go with Javascript/Typescript as Open Sheet Music Display is done in that language as well. And for easily setting up a demo we chose React which is an open source frontend library developed and maintained by Facebook. We also wanted to have a React demo for our renderer a while back so this was on the wish list anyways. The graphics and visual eye candy will be done using material-UI and Bootstrap which are also open-source projects dealing with the CSS and layouting. This is a heavy burden taken away from us so we can focus on dealing with the code itself.
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Whether you are a professional or a beginner, sight reading is an absolute must for making music. During music lessons, this is taught right from the start and is practiced and perfected until you become a professional. This raises the question for us: how can we help? Our solution: The Open Sheet Music Education exercise generator!
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With the exercise generator developed within the framework of OpenSheetMusicEducation (OSME), you can create musical exercises for dexterity on the instrument or for sight reading, etc. The desired musical parameters: for example the clef, the time signature, the range, the number of bars, can be set in the interface to generate an exercise at the click of a button and display it on the screen with OpenSheetMusicDisplay (OSMD).
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Be it pictures, videos or even songs and pieces of music, these types of media are always shared with friends on our social networks. This way we let the others see what we are doing and, in the case of OSME, practice! Apart from that, teachers can also display exercises they create with OSME on their own WordPress pages (embedding). But because of the frequent sharing, it is easy to forget what technology actually lies behind it.
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Millions of music students all over the world practice a musical instrument every day. It is well known that practice is necessary to improve how you play. But does more practice time always lead to more learning progress?
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This chapter goes a bit more into detail about the internals of a future practice format. I will include some ideas that I have bounced off with the team, teachers, musicians and friends. It will give a good guideline where this project might go.
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