Creating an alternative music notation is not that difficult. What you need is a piece of paper, a pen, and some creativity, right? The real question or the biggest challenge is how do you make your new notation available to a wider audience of people. Because what’s the point of inventing an alternative music notation, if you don’t have any score to play? You basically need sheet music written in your notation.
The only issue though is that there are tons and tons of sheet music out there (more than 30 millions songs apparently). And if you don’t have the right tools to automatically translate scores into your new notation you won’t simply make it. For this reason, we developed Dodeka Play: a web-based application that automatically translates and display digital sheet music into our alternative musical notation.
So today, with a bit of pride and excitement, we're releasing Dodeka Play Beta for early adopters, as well as anyone interested in playing sheet music the easy way.
You can get started with Dodeka Play Beta today by signing up to the beta list here. We put a lot of efforts developing this app and look very much forward to hearing what you think. Read on to get a taste of what's in Dodeka Play Beta.