Threw MIDI files alone I have learnt - Mocking Bird, Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement (even part of the 3rd Movement), Fur Elise, Chopin's 4th Prelude, half of Rachmaninoff's 4th Prelude, part of the Rach 3, a few sections of Hungarian Rhapsody number 2, Take Five, Autumn Leaves, about 4 minutes of Hungarian Rhapsody number 5, Bach's 1st Prelude in C Major, about 2 minutes of one of Chopin's Nocturnes and the beginning of Schuman's Carnival Op 9.ĭespite this large amount (for only a few months) I wish I spent this time learning to read instead, I have quite a few issues with MIDI filesįirst of all, its really hard to get it sounding at the right speed because there is no time signature, you have no idea about the pulse of the music, only threw listening to other recordings.
Once I discovered it I completely took learning music notation out of my do to list and used MIDI files as my primary (an pretty much only) learning tool. I defintley agree with the idea that you should NOT use Synthesia as a primary learning tool, but I do have something to add.Ī few months ago, I started playing the piano (I had been playing simple things on piano when I was like 10 but had obviously had over 5 years absence) an I found out about Synthesia. I still prefer watching videos that have the sheet music of the music being played, but for people who cant read music, I think its a brilliant innovation.
ALTERNATIVE TO SYNTHESIA SOFTWARE
I note that the author of the software that produces these very much better animations is a musician who designed it as a way to impart information to people that were watching a video of the music and NOT for learning - pretty much echoing what coda_collossale said above. Particularly effective are Debussys Arabesque#1 and something called 'Churning'. If anyone is interested in such graphical representations of music, I'd recommend having a look for videos uploaded by someone called 'musanim' on either youtube or vimeo. If I were forced to learn music by listening to the piece played on the bagpipes by a drunken beginner, it might affect my enjoyment of the whole thing. However, I have trouble getting over how horrible it all sounds. I confess I had no idea that is was intended as a learning aid. I too have enjoyed watching a few of these on youtube.
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