Exercise

Exercises: the simplest sets, to start with.

• Guitarify: 23_guitarify.yml
• Hello World: 01_hello_world.yml
• Scales: 04_scale.yml

Guitarify: 23_guitarify.yml

A tour of guitar playing in twenty short scenes, each a way a guitar is played, on seven General MIDI guitars and nothing else: a country bass note and strum, picking with thumb and fingers, bluegrass crosspicking, jazz comping, a blues in open G, power chords, a surf tremolo, the folk strum, funk scratching, a singer's rolled chords, metal gallops and a twelve bar shuffle. Every pattern is only a row of chords or low notes, and the Guitarify generator of each scene does the playing, so the demo shows what its Shape and Strokes sections do to the same kind of pattern.

examples/learning/23_guitarify.yml · G major · 104 BPM · 3:09 · 20 scenes · 7 tracks

chords	chains	guitarify	key changes	tempo changes	progressions
✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Hello World: 01_hello_world.yml

The smallest set there is: a C major scale up in the first scene, down in the second, and up again in the third while a second track holds a C chord for a quarter note, every note a sixteenth. Three seconds long. Open it to see what a pattern, a track and a scene are, play it first when setting up real-time MIDI (docs/MIDI_SETUP.md), and record it first (docs/RECORDING.md).

examples/learning/01_hello_world.yml · C major · 120 BPM · 0:03 · 3 scenes · 2 tracks

chords
✓

Scales: 04_scale.yml

Every scale llamatron knows, each run up an octave and back down from D, one scene per scale, in the order of the scale picker. Use it to preview a scale before choosing one. The demo shows that a scene can set its own scale, and that a degree past the top of a scale wraps up an octave.

examples/learning/04_scale.yml · D major · 120 BPM · 3:01 · 47 scenes · 1 tracks

key changes
✓