Show HN: Practice all the songs you know on your musical instrument

[LorenDB]

https://github.com/LorenDB/muziko

I built this app because I realized that I forgot about a song for a while and therefore got a lot worse at that song.

The app will make you play your lowest-proficiency songs (something you just started learning) daily. Medium-proficiency songs (you can play them, but you have room for improvement) get played several times a week. High-proficiency songs (you have mastered them) are cycled through at the rate of approximately one-two per day.

This app is in no way complete and probably contains bugs. With that being said, I have been daily-driving it in its current state for several days without problems.

There is no Apple version because I would have to buy a Mac and pay Apple $100/year for an iPhone app that I wouldn't even use.

Hopefully you find this helpful!

[anadem]

OK so it gives spaced repetition, but how? Does it just pop up the name of a song from a list you've entered, or is there more to it? There's not much information on what it actually does. Does it listen to your playing?

[petemir → anadem]

From the images and description on the app's Play Store page [0], the skill level is manually set.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.lorendb.mu...

[LorenDB → petemir]

This is indeed correct. I want to eventually implement a feature that will say "you've played this daily for the last 10 days, have you progressed?" but currently you have to manually specify how good you are at the song.

[LorenDB → anadem]

It's just based on the list you entered. I'm sure it would be possible to implement some sort of autosuggest feature (maybe integrate with learning websites to see what lessons you have available), but that would be a good ways off in the future :)

There is no listening to your playing at this point. That would be a cool feature, but I'm not ready to tackle that either.

[bayjird]

Nice! I had a similar problem but went in a different direction with the solution: a browser extension that downloads every guitar tab you open on ultimate-guitar.com

It's available for chrome and firefox (which is supposed to work on Android too soon)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/guitar-tab-archive...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/addon/guitar-tab-ar...

[petemir → bayjird]

I am not able to download it on Firefox - Linux. Is it Windows/Mac only?

[bayjird → petemir]

Oops that link was only for android. This one should work on Linux: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/guitar-tab-ar...

[mkl]

So it's like Anki for music practice? Intended more to build up a repertoire than practice for a particular event?

It's a bit strange that you spend more words complaining about Apple than explaining what the app does.

[LorenDB → mkl]

It is a bit like Anki, yes. I actually did have an idea to do an event practice feature (e.g. you could be fed mostly Christmas music for the entirety of December).

I admit that I did a poor job of explaining the function of Muziko in the README; I've updated it. I complained about Apple in the README because now I can just point Apple users there if they ask for the app on their iPhones :D

[dgellow]

I don’t have an android device to test, but I’m not sure I understand how the app works. Does it sends a notification with a link to a YouTube video? I don’t really understand the YouTube link in screenshots, I somehow expected it would provide a music score to play.

[LorenDB → dgellow]

The link to YouTube is simply a link to a backing track for that song. My motivation was mainly so I wouldn't have to navigate my guitar teacher's website every time I wanted to practice each song; now I can open the song in Muziko and click the link directly to the page with the backing track.

[ghostpepper]

How does it compare to Anki? Are there any music specific features?

[LorenDB → ghostpepper]

Frankly, I didn't bother looking for any similar apps before writing Muziko, so I can't tell you for sure how it is or is not like Anki, but Muziko works on the same spaced-repetition principle that Anki would.

Strictly speaking, there are no music-specific features other than branding and UI labels; however, I hope to add some more music-specific features like a metronome and tuner in the near future.*

*I have used GuitarTuna in the past for a metronome, but I'm fed up with how slow it is and all the popups trying to get you to subscribe to Yousician, so I'd love to add a metronome to Muziko so I can delete GuitarTuna for once and for all :D (and yes, I could just get another metronome app, but I haven't. I'm lazy like that.)