1. Learning to sight-read with PHP and Lilypond Ben Savage

2. Who am I?
I'm Ben Savage
Systems Administrator at Deakin University Australia
Varied history with music
I have a lot of instruments
Had a piano lesson at 5
Music classes at school – learned to read it
Distanced myself from music as a teen
Had a keyboard, self taught for 10 years
Got a uke/ocarina/electric piano – things kicked off

3. Note the stentor 64th size
Two cellos
5 ukes
5 ocarinas
Kalimba
Congos
Thunder drum
Two recorders
clarinet
Tin whistle
Not pictured, electric piano, keyboard, cajone
Tinypiano, another uke, another ocarina, guitar

4. Tinypiano added for scale
So I like music now
Sometimes I hear something and wonder why I bother to do anything other than music

5. What is it? Random score generation with a web interface
Based on a scale, time signature and one of a few practice modes

6. What's the need? Repetition
Play something a few times, don't need the music
Pattern recognition
Once you can feel what's coming next, stop paying attention
Playing by ear
Can't have somebody play anything for me
I find it difficult to learn for these reasons

7. Friederich Dotzauer http://conquest. imslp

8. Bernhard Cossman http://conquest. imslp
E4 to c2

9. What's the need? Cost Exercise/technical books aren't cheap
Somewhat mitigated by imslp.org
Just sit down and play
Any device, anywhere, any time
Learn music theory
and how to automate it
Usually more expensive as the grade increases
International Music Score Library Project. /Petrucci music library
Also personalisation

10. Live Demo!

11. Lilypond LilyPond is a text-based music engraving program
It can also create midi files
Another Live Demo!

12. Code
Generates scales
Then creates scores based on 'intervals' in the scale
Effectively index positions of the array
Sorting was an issue

13. Current issues Can't deviate from the scale
Doesn't scale terribly well

14. Future
Instrument Profiles
Meta language

15. ben@sav.net.au www.sav.net.au/sight_reading
Questions?