Re:Show HN: Teach your kids absolute (perfect) pitch
by freetime2 on Monday June 22, 2026 @09:03AM
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I think Duolingo has a music course. No idea how good it is though or how deep it goes into theory.
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Re:Show HN: Teach your kids absolute (perfect) pitch
by the_other on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:04AM
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It’s a reasonable course for helping yiu identify a single line of notes across the two staves. Or maybe just the “right hand” upper/trebble clef stave (the bormal one for most instruments).
It does teach a little anout scales. It wont teach chords. It doesn’t go very far into time signatures. It only has you play a virtual keyboard so it’s useless for learning how to feel your instrument.
It’s quite fun. My kid plays it every day and it’s helped get them feeling more confident to sit at our piano and noodle around. As a noodler myself, this seems valid.
It wont get you good enough to play pieces with other musicians, or to compose with weatern harmony. You’ll need extea tutorials for those.
Re:Show HN: Teach your kids absolute (perfect) pitch
by aboardRat4 on Monday June 22, 2026 @09:08AM
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Duolingo is garbage based on dry cramming.