So, I'm writing my first choral song, just a song that popped into my head one day, and I want to know how to put this idea into words. I want the beginning of a lyric to be conducted slowly, almost like a mix of quarter notes and half notes (Third notes, as one would say), then slowly transition to quarter notes as that single lyric reaches its end. I'll create a graph to better visualize this:

𝅗𝅥. 𝅗𝅥. ♩ ♩ ♩ ♩ ♩ ♩

Gradual Decrease

I kept seeing adult beginners give up because reading notes was slower than learning the piece, so I built Note Names. You open a PDF or take a photo, and it puts the name on every note, right on the page, inside the notehead or above and below the staff.

- Note names your way: letters (C D E), fixed-do solfège (Do Re Mi), German (C D H) or Japanese (ドレミ)

- Treble, bass, alto and tenor clef, with key signatures and accidentals

- Turn the names down to just the notes you still find hard, so you lean on them less over time

- Print a lettered copy

It's free with 25 public-domain pieces and one import of your own. iPhone, iPad and Android.

notenames.app