Nootka

Nootka helps understand the basics of music notation:
reading and practicing playing musical scores.
Long story short: the user plays notes (melody) displayed by the app,
which then in real time checks if the notes was played correctly.
The application is free and open source.
It works under Windows, Linux, Mac and Android...

Features

interactive interface to discover the rules of musical notation
exercises with possibility to create own sets
accurate method for detecting sung and played sounds
natural sound of instruments
clefs (treble, bass and others) and grand staff
analyze of results
different kinds of guitars and theirs tuning

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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akyv13 Posted 2025-07-19

Thanks!
zapyon Posted 2021-06-06

Very nice training tool for music score reading and connecting notes with frets on your (string) instruments (guitar, bass, ukulele, and more).
s-r-grass Posted 2020-09-14

Thank you very much for the program released under a free open source license!
truebrew Posted 2017-08-07

Extremely good software for note drilling! Highly recommended.
dazgard Posted 2016-04-13

Very useful indeed. A very promising application. Keep it up

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Android, BSD, Linux, Mac, Windows

Languages

Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Spanish

Intended Audience

Education, Other Audience

User Interface

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Education Software, C++ Sound Audio

Registered

2011-03-20

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