tunedrill / News: Recent posts

Maintenance release only. Finishes the guitar drill pack. Starting KDE4 port soon.

Added a few right hand drills and the beginning of the chord exercises.

This is a minor release which includes a metronome chart for reference and a bunch of guitar drills (mostly for developing the right hand).

Project rename and major GUI update.

Bugfix: Rearrange guitarflash constructor to be more safe.
Feature: Project renamed to tunedrill.
Feature: Reimplement GUI as tabs. Helper Enable and metronome speed now available in player.
Metronome settings available in a separate tab.

guitarflash is no longer guitar only and the software is more mature now so I've renamed it tunedrill.

Bugfix: Only try to parse XML files.
Bugfix: Make sure scripts are packaged.
Feature: New timing based format, modeled after standard measure/bar music.
Feature: New scripts for updating XML files.
Feature: Updated XML files to version 0.6.

New code supporting a measure/bar based format as opposed to the fixed type format has been committed. Both formats are supported.

Contains reworked instrument packs and a better user experience.

This release includes a customizable metronome (up to 8 beats per measure).

Rewrote most of the code relating to the metronome. It's a wip, it's in SVN.

Support for > 1 metronome is now available. Only 4/4 measure at the moment.

This release adds support for user customizable metronome sound. Also includes almost two dozen metronome sounds courtesy of the Hydrogen software and its drum kits. Added the last two scales: Bebop Major and Bebop Minor.

Interim release which adds OGG audio file support.

Easier admin of sound card device, updated XML files.

This is a maintenance release and also adds a few guitar scales.

guitarflash is a musical instrument training tool. Designed to help assist with learning the basics of any musical instrument (not just guitars) and the fundamentals of music theory. A basic metronome is included for practicing. guitarflash uses XML based routine files to allow users to install their own custom routines or songs.

This release of guitarflash finalizes the work done with the file system layout and XML file content. routines can now be rolled into a routine pack complete with images and xml files. These tar balls can be simply unrolled in the xml directory of your installation.... read more

Supports more than 1 graphical special effect. Now provides audible feedback when tab is changed.

Basic steps towards audio playback for the metronome have been implemented. Now focused on making it more robust and flexible.

Basic steps towards audio playback for the metronome have been implemented. Now focused on making it more robust and flexible.

I've added support for > 1 effects. This should allow anyone to implement practice routines for any musical instrument. So if you want to submit your own routines send them to me. I also need a volunteer to setup a wiki to make this automatic.

I've begun work on audio playback, but not a lot of progress yet beyond choosing libsndfile and alsa.

guitarflash-0.05 is available for KDE3. There is much that can be done, so if you're interested get in touch!