MusicShape

Play a note. Watch it appear. MusicShape draws your playing as a single line crossing a grid of semitones, and that one line carries three things at once. Where it sits is the pitch, and it takes on colour as it drifts — warm when you are running sharp, cool when you are falling flat — so the direction of an error reads before you have finished the note. How it waves is your vibrato. How thick it is is how loud you are playing. So a phrase becomes a shape you can read at a glance: the scoop up into a note, the one that sags halfway through, the crescendo that never quite arrived, whether your vibrato is as even as it feels. It is the difference between a tuner telling you that was flat, and seeing exactly where, and by how much. JUST PLAY. IT REMEMBERS. Open it, play, put it down. Each sitting is kept on its own: what you worked on and how long you actually played, as opposed to how…