Nootka

String Theory – Fast guitar training for classical music

Article from Issue 210/2018
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With Nootka and your guitar, you can learn to recognize musical notes in classical notation and train for precision and speed.

Linux has many small tools that allow music enthusiasts to practice reading musical notation. Nootka [1], by developer Tomasz Bojczuk, offers an extensive program that helps guitarists learn notation (Figure 1).

Figure 1: With a variety of exercises, playful interactions, and motivating evaluations, Nootka helps guitarists learn classical notation.

The program, which runs on many platforms (see the "Installation" box), trains basic musical knowledge and the ear. The software can only display and play whole notes and is thus not suitable as a tool for composing music. Nootka does not allow for odd metrics, rhythms, and subtleties such as triplets, nor does it support chords. Instead, it helps you concentrate fully on learning the difficult art of recognizing notes in classical notation.

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