Etude Generator

• Jun 8, 2015 - 14:12

I think it is imperative for all students of music to have this feature. It must be so easy to add into musescore for its developers. There should be a panel with few bars where one click can put all the notes; and then other option will change the pattern of notes according to our choice, including duration of notes. For example we made notes in triplets and then by selecting the middle, all the middle notes in all triplets will be selected and we can change them accordingly. Please add this feature.

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• Jun 8, 2015 - 15:01

This would be a great feature, but not for a *notation* program. It should simply be a separate program that speciailzies in edute generation. This separate program could generate the edutes as MusicXML, then MuseScore could display them. Chances are, someone in the music21 community has already developed something like this.

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• Jun 8, 2015 - 15:20

You already mentioned this etude generator here https://musescore.org/en/node/60611 but you always give very vague description of what you think it should do. Here you talk about triplets, in the other you talked about position (assuming any MuseScore developer knows what position 1 means... I'm a developer, I'm a drummer, I have no idea what you are talking about).

So if you want anyone to develop this idea, can you explain exactly, maybe with picture and a simple example to explain "exactly" what such a tool should do?

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• Jun 8, 2015 - 20:38

I requested for a plugin, to which I receive no response. I think this is very simple feature that can be added in musecore instead of a plugin. A plugin has very limited work. We have plugins of creating random scores which are useless; that's why I realized how easy it should be an option to have patterned notes laid down.

Let me try explaining again. If we have a pallet for this with 3-4 levers. If we turn this function on we will have many measures of notes, all same notes. Then we can use those levers to customize the pitch of the notes acc to our need; we can customize their pitch, duration etc. For example we have 4 notes in on measure C C C C. One lever will ask how much gap we want btw two notes; so we can make it C A C A. One lever will ask the change pattern in whole measures (coz we dont wanna change all measures separately by hand). This lever can create a change pattern in all measures. For example whether we want small variation or long. From measure (1) CA C A to (measure 2) C B C B which is a tiny variation or it should be long btw two measures F A F A.

I hope you know what an etude is, so that you can easily understand what I am trying to make here. We have different levers in a pallet to make various kinds of editing and changes and make the etudes as complex as we want.

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• Jun 8, 2015 - 20:50

Like one starting option for what kind of notes we want in this etude? triplets, duplets? - now we got many measures full of these notes identical; for example we created triplets (123); and then second asks which note should be edited - we selected the middle (2) we can now increase this note to any level. We can also change the (2) from quarter to 16th note.

one option will ask how much variation should be among the triplets? - these options themselves make a very good etude generator.

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• Jun 8, 2015 - 21:25

Easy is the word we use to qualify the job of someone else...

I think I know what a Etude is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tude but it's often a lot more involved that what you describe. So I guess you have a very particular definition of what an Etude is.

There are several interesting feature in what you describe. For example the ability to select one or more note and divide them in two could be interesting

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• Jun 9, 2015 - 10:22

ok, do you mean the making such a feature is very difficult? and what about a plugin? I am sure if this feature exists then it will be greatly helpful for all students because etudes are most important in learning instruments. And it is very difficult for us to practice from the pdf books. I hope the next version of musescore include this feature.

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• Aug 1, 2015 - 15:09

To see the list of changes, see the announcement on the main page of this site. But no, there is nothing like you describe, nor is there likely to be any time soon. As I've mentioned before, what you describe really belongs in a separate program, and you should focus your efforts on encouraging others to write such a program.

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