# notation-flashcards

Install and run like so:

pip install .
NEOSCORE_HEADLESS=1 python -m notation_flashcards

This will generate a file called accordion.apkg which you can then import into Anki in the usual way.

## What's in the deck?

The deck contains two kinds of Anki notes, "note" notes and "chord" notes. A "note" note teaches you to name a note in a given key signature:

Field	Example Content
NID	001038
Key Signature	D
Note Name	F♯
Octave	0
Score

We generate one Anki note for each note of the chromatic scale across four octaves, starting two octaves below middle C and ending two octaves above. Chromatic scale notes are named such that each letter A-G appears once, e.g. the note 6 semitones above C is called F♯ in the key of D but G♭ in the key of B♭.

A "chord" note teaches you to name a chord in a given key signature:

Field	Example Content
NID	001425
Key Signature	B♭
Chord Name	Gm
Inversion	1
Staff	bass
Score

There is an Anki note for every three-note chord that a Stradella bass accordion can play (major C, minor Cm, seventh C7 and diminished C°), in every inversion, on both staves.

The notes and chords are taught key by key, in the order of number of sharps and flats (C, G, F, D, B♭, ...).

## Developer notes

The two main module this code uses are genanki and neoscore. neoscore require PyQt5 which can be tough to install on OSX. In particular poetry tries to install pyqt5-qt5, which has no installation candidates for apple silicon. Perhaps this will be fixed. In the mean time, I manually remove the entry for pyqt5-qt5 from the lockfile.

NEOSCORE_HEADLESS=1 isn't necessary, it just makes the program run a little faster.