I write a monthly newsletter and one of my readers asked for software that would be helpful to teach kids music. Of course, I know about software that plays music - but does anyone have suggestions about FOSS that would help teach music?
Music Programs for Education
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The only one that I can think of off the top of my head is TuxGuitar. It is a Guitar tab editor and player that should prove useful for people learning to play guitar.
You may also want to check out this website: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7606
There is a lot out there. Here are some I'm familiar with. Solfege for ear training Rosegarden for midi/sequencing/basic notation Lilypond for high quality notation (works well with Rosegarden) Audacity for basic audio work.
there are a lot more. Check out UbuntuStudio if you have a computer with nothing better to do.
Funny, I am on the other side - I am the music teacher and our sys. admin. Currently we are using Windows, but will be migating to linux (edubuntu) over the summer. I would love to find some programs to help me reinforce note-reading, rhythm, composition, etc.
Lilypond/rosegarden are good. I will check out others mentioned here and hope that there is more input out there.