r/Learnmusic

My band and I usually rehearse for our gig performance. We usually use YouTube as a reference. I usually drill the song’s parts back and forth, scrubbing over the YouTube seek bar. I found it really tiring. That's why I built the Rehearsely app. Rehearsely removes the friction from learning new material.

Rehearsely turns any YouTube video into a practice tool. Paste a link, mark the part that keeps tripping you up, and loop it at half speed until your hands catch up — no scrubbing, no guessing.

https://reddit.com/link/1vnwq8h/video/tijoj2q1l9jh1/player

What it does:
• YouTube Integration: Add any video and start practicing immediately.
• Smart Markers: Drop markers at the verse, chorus, or that one fast solo. No manual scrubbing the seek bar anymore. YouTube that have Chapters will automatically included as Markers.
• Loop & Slow Down playback: Repeat tricky sections at your own pace without losing pitch.
• Build Setlists: Organize songs into sets for your next gig or rehearsal session.
• Exercise Mode: Fullscreen landscape view designed for focused, distraction-free practice
• Smartly Add Songs: Paste your Music Director's notes and let Apple Intelligence extract the songs for you.
• Share your marked Song or Setlist to your musician friends

Stop wasting time finding timestamps and start playing.

Check it out on App Store:https://apps.apple.com/id/app/rehearsely-music-practice/id6762349066

Thank you for give it a try!

For trust & transparency rule:
I'm the developer: Gerson Janhuel (gersonjanhuel.com)
Rehearsely homepage: https://gersonjanhuel.com/p/rehearsely

I have recently come across lightnote.co and I loved the way music theory was explained interactively. The premium subscription for the rest of the lessons though is extremely high and not justified imo.

Is there any open source alternative to this?

I just started piano and I can play 1 minute into moonlight sonata do yall have any pointers or help tips for if I want to get good at it, I can play the full minute in 23 second pace and I’m good at it all but I need advice for what hands to use and exercises for if I want to get better also what songs are going to get me good at it?

As a music producer, I’ve always found music theory harder to understand than it needed to be, especially chord progressions, scales and intervals.

So I built Amonra Theory to make those concepts easier to understand and actually apply to music.

It’s still under development, but I’d love some feedback from other musicians and producers.

Try it here: https://amonratheory.in

If you find any bugs, you can report them at help@amonratheory.in

New dotBeat blog post: Trust But Verify. Then Verify Again.

This one is about using AI to help build a music learning tool, and why I’ve learned to check the musical assumptions underneath the code.

I’ve had AI confidently get music theory wrong, including a re-entrant ukulele slash-chord question where I had to call out the mistake three times before it stopped trying to make the answer work.

That does not mean AI is useless. It does mean I don't treat it as the authority.

Civil disagreement is welcome. Brutal drive-by comments, less so.

Read it here:

https://dotbeat.app/blog-trust-but-verify

Can someone explain to me a simple understanding of this paper? I've watched a few videos and still a little confused.

If I Were a Teacher, This Is How I Would Teach NAGA Pulse

This is only a teaching simulation.

It is not an official academic definition of NAGA Pulse, and I am not claiming that these musical concepts were invented by me.

In traditional music education, students often learn many things separately:

Rhythm → Groove → Bass → Melody → Arrangement → Dynamics → Timbre → Form

Students may understand all these terms, but they can still face one important question:

“Teacher, I understand all of this… but how do I decide what should happen in this section?”

If I were teaching, I would use NAGA Pulse to help fill that gap.

I would not begin with:

“Today we are learning Techno.”

I would begin with three very simple questions.

🐉 NAGA — What is breathing?

What is responsible for maintaining the sense of life, weight, space, and continuous pressure in the music?

It does not necessarily have to be the Sub Bass.

It could come from:

Bass

Pad

Long sustained melody

Vocal

Texture

Orchestra

Even Silence or Dynamics

NAGA does not define a specific type of sound.

It simply asks:

In this section of the music, what is breathing?

🐎 HORSE — What is moving?

What is responsible for keeping the music moving forward?

It could come from:

Bass groove

Arpeggio

Melody

Percussion

Repeated motif

Vocal phrasing

Instrumental ostinato

And one important point:

Movement ≠ BPM

A track at 128 BPM can still contain different cycles, different sensations of speed, and different accents within it.

So I would explain to the students:

Tempo is the overall time framework of the song.

Movement is how the musical elements move within that framework.

🐍 MAMBA — What changes the energy?

What makes the listener suddenly realize that “something has happened”?

It could be:

Bass hit

Drum impact

Silence

Stop

Sudden filter opening

Sudden cut

Vocal interruption

Fake Drop

Delayed Chorus

So:

Impact ≠ Loudness

Sometimes the strongest MAMBA is simply:

Everything suddenly disappears.

💡 Then I Give the Students a Simple Assignment

Do not decide the Genre first.

Give them 16 bars, and ask only three questions:

1. What is breathing?

→ NAGA

2. What is moving?

→ HORSE

3. What changes the energy?

→ MAMBA

After that, let the students choose for themselves.

Bass?

Yes.

Piano?

Yes.

Guitar?

Yes.

Vocal?

Yes.

Ranat Ek?

Absolutely.

🎧 Only Then Do We Move Into Genre

For example:

Assignment

128 BPM Melodic Techno

Three students must use:

NAGA + HORSE + MAMBA

But the final results should still be different.

Student A:

NAGA is very deep, slow, and spatial.

Student B:

NAGA is more melodic.

Student C:

NAGA is almost hidden underneath the entire arrangement.

All three can still work.

Because:

NAGA Pulse ≠ Sound Preset

It is not:

“NAGA = this Bass.”

Instead:

NAGA = the role played by an element within the music.

Therefore, the same framework should not produce the same music.

🔥 NAGA Pulse as a Teaching Language Across Genres

🎛️ Techno

NAGA → Sub / Atmosphere

HORSE → Bass / Sequence

MAMBA → Impact / Drop

🎤 Pop

NAGA → Bass / Pad / Vocal support

HORSE → Bass movement / Melody

MAMBA → Fake Drop / Silence / Vocal interruption

🎸 Rock

NAGA → Bass / Sustained guitar

HORSE → Riff / Bass movement

MAMBA → Drum hit / Guitar stop

🎬 Cinematic

NAGA → Drone / Low strings

HORSE → Ostinato / Repeating motif

MAMBA → Orchestral impact / Silence

🔊 Dubstep

NAGA → Breathing low-frequency movement

HORSE → Wobble / Rhythmic bass motion

MAMBA → Bass strike / Cut / Drop

Then the students begin to see:

The Genre changes.

The instruments change.

The timbre changes.

But one question remains:

“What is the music doing right now?”

🧠 This Is How I Understand NAGA Pulse

I did not create:

Breath, Movement, Groove, Impact, Silence, Tension, or Release.

All of these things already exist in music.

What I did was take the musical behaviors that I repeatedly used throughout my own music-making process, and organize them into three roles that are easier to understand, discuss, and apply:

🐉 NAGA = Breath

🐎 HORSE = Drive / Movement

🐍 MAMBA = Strike / Energy Change

It is not a Genre.

It is not a fixed sound.

And it is not a rule that forces everyone to make the same kind of music.

Different people using NAGA Pulse in Techno should still produce different identities and different results.

In fact, I would prefer for other people to take this framework, modify it, and develop it into their own way of working.

🧪 Finally, I Am Open to Criticism

If you believe NAGA Pulse has no value, I welcome the criticism.

But please do not stop at:

“It’s not good.”

“It’s wrong.”

“It’s useless.”

“This doesn’t work.”

Tell me which part, and why.

For example:

In what musical context does the definition of NAGA stop being useful?

What problem does HORSE / Movement fail to address compared with existing concepts of Rhythm or Groove?

Is MAMBA / Strike / Silence simply a different naming of existing Arrangement or Dynamics concepts?

Do these three roles actually help someone make decisions during the music-making process?

Can this framework be applied in real production?

It can even be tested directly in Suno AI.

You don't have to believe me.

Test it through music.

If someone can demonstrate that a particular part does not actually help, I am willing to discuss it.

If someone discovers that the framework is useful in their own music, I also welcome them to share their experience.

I am not sharing NAGA Pulse because I believe it is already perfect.

I am sharing it because I want to find out:

When a framework organized from real music-making experience is released from its creator, can it still help other people make music?

#NAGAPULSE

45 days in a row of practice! Halfway to my 3 month/90 day goal.