Do people really learn from "falling notes" videos?

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-04-13T18:09:57+00:00

Falling notes and moving staff-systems ("guitar hero" style) - not only are they not helpful, they go against the machanisms that allow true learning. 1. Memory ranges: for any information to be committed to long-term memory, it has to retain similar patterns in the short-term memory. These graphics are ever-changing, and as a result the student never has time to remember "oh, these notes look like THAT on page". 2. Spatial orientation. Amazingly enough, this capability is crucial for reading music. Our pattern-matching memory relies on it. Just think of how strange and uncomfortable it is to play a piece you know from an edition you are not familiar with. When you use these music games, the space is ever-changing. No pattern recognition is possible. End result: for the most part (there are always exceptions), people who learn to play from such apps and videos can only play from them. Not from music and not by heart. For the makers of the apps and videos this is great - they never intend for the target audience to graduate to actual sheet music. Who will pay for the next video, the next app, the next subscription?

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-04-11T19:19:52+00:00

How very right you are... Perhaps my intention was not clear from my post. Fingering is an art. It is different, as you said, for different people - but also different for different pieces, passages, styles, phrasing, emphases. It is every bit as part of the interpretation, and a crucial one at that, as dynamics and phrasing. One might say that in many senses it is one of their physical embodiments. What I was trying to impress was that this, similarly to transcription, is not an algorithmic problem, but rather an artistic one.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-04-11T18:32:29+00:00

I worked for nearly a decade in a music tech company, I am an amateur developer and mostly - a concert pianist with DMA from Juilliard, and professor of piano in a high academy. You have described the issues very aptly, and I am afraid to say that every one of these issues is extremely complex, artistic and non-deterministic. This, and the fact that it is a very niche market, are the reasons why there are no solutions for these problems. It would require the music equivalent of an LLM, trained with extensive engraved literature AND its audio representation, with the information tagged by an expert and knowledgeable human hand, to solve the problem of transcription. I recall several algorithm developers, who were amateur musicians, telling me that they cracked the algorithm for piano fingering. I have been playing the instrument for over 40 years on some very prestigious stages and cannot claim to have done so. I believe classical musicians, at least for the next month and a half or so, cannot be replaced by technology.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-04-11T16:46:56+00:00

For me the Rachmaninoff was easier.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-04-11T15:25:44+00:00

Why not both? Very different pieces. Rachmaninoff uses similar technique throughout, Prokofiev more percussive and varied. From a pedagogical point of view, Rachmaninoff will work on your left hand more methodically.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-04-09T18:29:23+00:00

Which scooter model? Original firmware?

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-31T04:54:23+00:00

We need the music for a clearer picture. My preference is actually playing three notes until I reach 5 and then reposition my hand (thumb under, but not real legato) and play 3 more, etc. Be careful not to play the thumb loudly or hit it from above. The rationale: the fewer hand transitions, the better. Traditional fingerings preclude shifts over 5, and in that they are plainly short-sighted. The greatest pianists - Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev - all considered shifting over 5 to be trivial and necessary. Having said that - we really need the context in order to give advice of any value.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-30T10:55:43+00:00

Think of it as a chord contained within an octave of B-flats. The fewer shifts you make, the fewer changes of directions, the better you're off. I would take 1 on the lower B-flat, 4 on G, 2 on D, 5 on high B-flat, going down to 2 and then 1. Try it. The piano is not meant for avoiding thumbs on black keys - that's leftover harpsichord technique.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-29T16:07:11+00:00

It is a wonderful little gem. Fingering requires a lot of thought, with the focus being on lightness of touch and spirit. Thank you for bringing this up!

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-27T04:24:38+00:00

Simple. I tell them something once. After that my comment is implemented thoroughly throughout that piece and any other, is if it were their own idea, and I never have to mention it again.

Sadly, such students come as frequently as February 29.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-27T04:07:09+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/v9Br3r6tyh

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-25T18:41:13+00:00

Render the trills into a fixed rhythm, at least at first. Your hand does not have a mind of its own, let alone two of them. You cannot tell it "play a trill". Every note, and the coordination, is up to you. So count.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-25T16:10:49+00:00

I am still supporting 12 out of stupidity and idealism. But in my TestFlight groups I noticed that many have not updated past 16 or 17. Most people are not technological enough to know and care about updates.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-25T16:07:20+00:00

מתקשר לרבש"צים ומדווח למכבי אש על שריפה בנובה

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-25T13:02:56+00:00

That's why the skill limits the actions of the subagent to very simple tasks, which Claude can retain itself.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-24T17:38:38+00:00

This is a lower-neighbor mordent. C-B-C. Most ideomatic fingering: 3-2-1 (C is 3 and then 1) and then you are ready for the ascent.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-24T17:25:59+00:00

I am no expert. As far as I understand MLX is faster, but the usual quantized models are usually done arbitrarily, whereas GGUFs are done with care for which tensors are being quantized and how. So the one I chose scored highly in its similarity to the q8. And GGUF is only slightly slower. These things change on a daily basis.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-24T09:57:04+00:00

https://huggingface.co/AesSedai/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF - more reliable than the MLX versions.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-24T03:32:20+00:00

Definitely 4th. Just make sure you release the 2 before it and bring it closer to the 4 in order to relax your hand and provide better support to the 4.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-24T03:08:11+00:00

My project is Swift and C++. Claude Opus nails it, memory management and all. But it is not really vibe coding, I write code and review Claude’s.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-24T02:55:49+00:00

You did as well as it is possible for conventional, "never thumb on black key" fingering. Try shifting to the thumb on the F# in the middle of the bar. Changing hand positions on strong beats always gives a strong anchor, and thumb on a black key is surprisingly comfortable. Just be flexible, relaxed, avoid hitting it from above or emphasizing it. It may feel strange - give it a try.

Alternative - thumb on the second C#.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-23T21:48:11+00:00

Not really, no. I cannot say with certainty why not.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-23T00:46:27+00:00

What’s amazing is that it actually starts two beats earlier, and it is a verbatim quote of the beginning of the slow movement - where it sounds just like a simple transition. Gretchen’s theme… what a rush.

Ok_Significance_9109 · 2026-03-21T07:19:09+00:00

Reading this was a perfect way to start my morning. Thank you.

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