[Testing] Tam Tam on the XO-3

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Scott,
I would love to know more about the Simple Piano Activity. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get to it.  Gonzalo's notes say it is to use with Tam Tam.  It is hard to see how that would work. Is it a divided screen? You really should have access to the controls on the Tam Tam main screen while playing. Can you send me a screenshot?
Did you see my email about the Tam Tam FLOSS manual I have been working on? It has links so you can go take a look at it.  I'll forward a copy to all of you in a separate email.  It shows some of the things that can be done with Tam Tam.  I tried most of them with students at the Montana school where there is a small CP project and with a group of adults in a workshop at the SF Summit. 
The main difficulty with Tam Tam is actually the use of the XO keyboard with the letters on it that don't match up with the note names. People with no musical experience have little difficulty. Musicians, even with just a few piano lessons, get very confused.
This is the reason I haven't moved the FLOSS manual to the "publish" status yet.  My granddaughter (a 13-year-old violinist) suggested I add an Appendix with all of the musical examples written out in standard notation for people who already read music. I will have to wait until after SCaLE 10X to find time to do it. 
There is also a free CC copyright class right after SCaLE on Moodle for Wikieducators  that I thought would be useful to take before working on the musical examples.
Keep me posted on what you decide to do with Tam Tam and other musical Activities. I am very interested!
Thanks, Caryl
> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:55:34 -0500
> Subject: Re: Tam Tam on the XO-3
> From: cscott at laptop.org
> To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
> CC: cjb at laptop.org; testing at lists.laptop.org
> 
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I don't know exactly who to send this to, so maybe someone who reads it will
> > know and pass it along.  While working on materials for playing songs on the
> > XO-1 using Tam Tam Mini and Tam Tam Jam for a Contributors Program project I
> > am helping,  it occurred to me that it should be fairly easy to provide a
> > standard black and white piano-type keyboard screen image to use on the new
> > XO-3.  This would eliminate the frustrating process of translating musical
> > notes from their normal letter names (eg cdefgabc) to the names of the
> > corresponding keys on the xo keyboard (eg zxcvbnm).
> >
> > So my question is... will the Tam Tam suite of Activities be included in the
> > Sugar build for the XO-3?  Have you programmed a musical keyboard screen
> > image yet?  If not, I strongly suggest one be included in your plans.
> 
> I'm hacking on http://git.sugarlabs.org/simplepiano at the moment, but
> I agree that Tam Tam is a better long term solution.
>  --scott
> 
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>       ( http://cscott.net )
 		 	   		  
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