Passaggi vs Notey Music

Passaggi is an improvisation and ornamentation practice app for historical performers. The app delivers high-quality audio backing tracks for personal practice, which, when used in conjunction with facsimiles or modern editions of historical sources, enable the user to develop skills in the areas of improvisation and ornamentation. Suitable for students, amateurs and professionals alike, the app features adjustable pitch and tempo settings and user-defined looping capabilities. Tracks are recorded using a sampled historical organ in a temperament appropriate to the repertoire and are designed to complement the pedagogy of historical treatises. The idea behind Passaggi springs from a desire, common to many performers of historical repertoires, to recreate aspects of the musical experience as it may have existed at the time a piece of music was written. Improvisation and ornamentation may form only one aspect of this wide-reaching desire, yet it is clear that in this area students and professionals would achieve more successful immersive study and practice if the harmonic and musical context for improvisation, ornamentation and diminution were more easily accessible. How many of us can open Dalla Casa’s Il vero modo… and sing the baseline to his exercise embellishing Striggio’s I dolci colli, for example? And how much more profitable would our practice of this exercise be if we could? How many more of us would practise improvising on a ground, if we had a ground? The Passaggi project will enable more effective exploration of historical sources and approaches by providing digitally some aspects of the innate and inherited musical awareness common to all musicians of the past that we strive to connect with in the twenty-first century.

Musicians train like athletes. Same hours, same body, same pursuit. But an athlete's every session is measured, and a musician's disappears the moment it ends. Notey is a performance lab in your pocket, on the iPhone in your hand and the Apple Watch on your wrist. We treat a practice session the way sports science treats a training session. Sound and body, measured together. Music is one of the most fundamental things humans make. Every artist deserves the chance to perform at their best. Record everything Every run captured and stored. What you played, what you said while playing, where the silences fell. See what actually happened Pauses, repetitions, spoken vs played vs silent, heart rate through the session, daily and weekly trends. Practice better tomorrow Pre-session briefs tell you where to pick up. Post-session summaries are timestamped to the audio, so you jump straight to the bar that troubled you. Prepare your body for concert day Your body is the instrument behind the instrument. Notey tracks how it behaves under pressure, so the concert hall isn't where you find out. Measured seriously. Designed thoughtfully. Your practice, protected We promise to protect every recording with cutting-edge tech and anytime customer support.