<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Caryl Bigenho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Scott,<div><br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I think we can use it in TamTam MIni in this way:<br>* Add a button in the toolbar with two states: show piano keyboard or not.<br>* If not selected, the screen is like is today. the kid can select different instruments, and use the xo keyboard. <br>
If the user select show the keyboard, arrange the controls in the left side of the screen, in horizontal at the top of the screen<br>and show the image of the selected instrument, and below add the keybord.<br>I think will be useful for touch devices and to do easier to understand the use of the xo keyboard as a instrument.<br>
The keyboard in the screen can show the letters in the xo keyboard, the notes in the american (german) notation,<br>or the notation used in spain, and south america (DO, RE, MI....)<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Is true, but match the position of the keys in a piano keyboard. <br>
Try playing any melody in a computer keyboard using the letters as notes and is impossible.<br> <br>Gonzalo<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><div>People with no musical experience have little difficulty. Musicians, even with just a few piano lessons, get very confused.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Keep me posted on what you decide to do with Tam Tam and other musical Activities. I am very interested!</div>
<div><br> </div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>Thanks, </div><div>Caryl</div>
<div><br><div><div></div>> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:55:34 -0500<br>> Subject: Re: Tam Tam on the XO-3<br>> From: <a href="mailto:cscott@laptop.org" target="_blank">cscott@laptop.org</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a><br>
> CC: <a href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org" target="_blank">cjb@laptop.org</a>; <a href="mailto:testing@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">testing@lists.laptop.org</a><div class="im"><br>> <br>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Caryl Bigenho <<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Hi Folks,<br>> ><br>> > I don't know exactly who to send this to, so maybe someone who reads it will<br>> > know and pass it along. While working on materials for playing songs on the<br>> > XO-1 using Tam Tam Mini and Tam Tam Jam for a Contributors Program project I<br>
> > am helping, it occurred to me that it should be fairly easy to provide a<br>> > standard black and white piano-type keyboard screen image to use on the new<br>> > XO-3. This would eliminate the frustrating process of translating musical<br>
> > notes from their normal letter names (eg cdefgabc) to the names of the<br>> > corresponding keys on the xo keyboard (eg zxcvbnm).<br>> ><br>> > So my question is... will the Tam Tam suite of Activities be included in the<br>
> > Sugar build for the XO-3? Have you programmed a musical keyboard screen<br>> > image yet? If not, I strongly suggest one be included in your plans.<br>> <br>> I'm hacking on <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/simplepiano" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/simplepiano</a> at the moment, but<br>
> I agree that Tam Tam is a better long term solution.<br>> --scott<br>> <br>> -- <br>> ( <a href="http://cscott.net" target="_blank">http://cscott.net</a> )<br></div></div></div> </div></div>
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