...to play scores

Nootka /nuːtka/ is an application that helps understand the basics of music notation.
For sight reading and practice of 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...

interactive interface to discover the rules of musical notation
exercises where user can play or may guess a note on a score or its name
possibility to create own rules for exercises
importing melodies from musicXML file format - creating exercises based on them
accurate method for detecting sung and played sounds and melodies
natural sound of supported instruments
clefs (treble, bass and others) and grand stave
analyze of results (charts)
different kinds of guitars, ukulele and theirs tuning
also support for piano, bandoneon and saxophones (experimental)
built-in metronome
Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Slovenian and Russian translations

Download and Installation

Here is download page
But Nootka is available in installers of many Linux distributions.

Also in Google Play Store

Nightly builds for testing next Nootka releases:
Linux AppImage, MacOs bundle, Windows installer
Hosted on SourceForge

Help to translate Nootka. Read more about...

See, maybe you can help. Read more...