Re: Creating music for PianoBooster using MMA - Everyone can help.

Posted by Louis B. on
URL: http://piano-booster.139.s1.nabble.com/Creating-music-for-PianoBooster-using-MMA-Everyone-can-help-tp4167350p4614328.html

Hello Trev,

> Hi Louis,
> I've attached a small archive (140k) of about 120 midi files,
> extracted from the "Miracle Piano Tutor" (old Win95 application).

Thanks for that I have enjoyed playing these pieces, they certainly
start very easily and very slowly build up in difficulty. Some of them
sound a bit odd, are they all compatible with GM (General MIDI)? Is the
Miracle system  GM compatible? How far did you get with Miracle system?
can you play all those lessons? The seem to work quite well with PB once
you put the left and right piano parts on channels 1 and 2.

> I lack the skills to know which have copyright and I send them to you
> for private study purposes only in the hope that what can be learned
> from that study may make the open source PianoBooster even better.

Copyright is quite simple, it is automatically belongs to the person or
organisation who created the original work. Whilst many of those pieces
are based on traditional tunes, the accompanying midi tracks do count as
original work (someone created and composed these parts) and so are
subject copyright and belong to the person who created these
arrangements. Without permission from the copyright holder these
arrangements cannot be included with piano booster.

> The archive has numbered folders that correspond the the lesson level
> within the Miracle application. I'm in the process of extracting the
> text of those lessons and will send that to you as well when
> available. Hopefully with that information we may be able to inform
> the design of a structured learning add on to optionally use with
> PianoBooster. Certainly that is what I'm hoping to do, at least for my
> own use if an open source version proves to be too difficult.

Yep, their text counts as an original work.


> If you feel that structured learning is a worthwhile addition to
> PianoBooster, It may be that you are in contact with people (in
> addition to yourself) who have piano pedagogy skills. They'll be able
> to take a critical look at the information that I extract and provide
> informed comment about what should be part of a structured piano
> skills development system, and what should be left out. :)

This has given me a few ideas for putting together some sort of music
course. There are certainly lots of easy traditional or out of copyright
pieces that we can use. I am getting the hang of MMA now so it is quite
easy to add an accompaniment to a piano part. I don't believe there is a
right or wrong way to learn the piano. I think the best ideas can come
form us all. Let us know what works for you, so any help with creating
pieces would be welcome.

Louis