Linux Style: Music Education With Linux Sound Tools
Dave Phillips June 03 2004

Whatever you play, make your music lessons and practice sessions more
productive with these music learning tools.

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... For MP3 play I use the outstanding XMMS, while for playing CDs I
prefer Ti Kan's Xmcd. I also have occasion to burn discs for students,
which is no problem with the Gcombust front-end for the fantastic
cdrecord program.

... I can use Mike Oliphant's GRip software to grab the needed track and
convert it to WAV. Then I can load the WAV file into the Snd soundfile
editor and use its realtime time-stretching and looping capabilities to
help me through the tough passage. ..

... Tom Cato Amundsen's great Solfege actually turns ear-training
exercises into an enjoyable game, though I must be quick to add that
Solfege is a very serious tool ..

...  my favorite tool for this job is Aaron Lav's RhythmLab. If a student
has problems playing a difficult rhythm I can program RhythmLab to play
the rhythm at a slower tempo until the student can comprehend and play
it in time ..

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Instrument tuners abound for Linux, but I use the extremely minimal
xtune, a guitar-only tuner. Xtune provides a simple sine wave playback
at the pitch for each string, making it very quick and easy to tune the
guitar ..

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