Any piano fans on the Fastlane forum?
I've made some colorized sheet music books! If you hate sight-reading sheet music, like me, then this should help your piano practicing. It should also make practicing more enjoyable, since you'll be playing more and reading less.
Amazon link: Amazon.com: john archibald chromonotes
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Hi Fastlane community!
I am a long-time lurker (few months of reading the forum), but a first-time poster.
Since it's Sell-Me-Saturday, I thought I'd mention the books that I made a few months ago.
In one sentence: I made ChromoNotes so that I could learn piano faster, and so I could bring back the joy to practicing. The books are just sheet music for classical piano — except every note is colorized according to the rainbow (Western octaves have seven notes — C D E F G B A. C is red, the rest is intuitive from there!). For me, this simple notation change makes the big mess of notes we find in sheet music much easier to understand.
There's three books. The difficulty of music goes from complete beginner to expert, so everyone could find something interesting to learn
About the idea: I've played piano on-and-off for many years, and the thing that always held me back was that practicing was a nightmare, because I couldn't read sheet music easily. I would sooner learn a piece by heart than learn how to read the damn notes. Learning a piece on my own was excruciating (I even used to start learning a new piece by writing out the name of every note with a pencil... it took hours...)
Fast forward a few years, and I've now learned a few programming skills. So I wrote a little piece of software to automatically color every note in a piece of electronic sheet music.
I figured I couldn't be the only person in the world who hated wasting hours trying to decipher those black blobs! So I ran many of the world's most famous piano pieces through my software and compiled the results in a few books.
If you know any pianists, aspiring or professional, then I sincerely believe that they might find my work valuable! If you could take a look or recommend them, I would be eternally grateful.
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As a side-note: I would also be very grateful for any marketing advice. So far I've only gotten five-star reviews but... the sales figures are certainly quite disappointing so far. Maybe the product sucks, or maybe the market is just small. But I think the real problem is that no one knows that my books exist. I base this hypothesis on the fact that I've run a few "free ebook" promotions, and each time there were not very many downloads. I've also enrolled my books in Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, where subscribers can read them for free — but the "pages read" tracker tells me that people barely look at them I don't want to give up yet!
If anyone on the forum has experience with Amazon self-publishing, or book publishing in general, then I would really love to hear everything you've got to say!
Thank you for your time!
Live long and prosper
I've made some colorized sheet music books! If you hate sight-reading sheet music, like me, then this should help your piano practicing. It should also make practicing more enjoyable, since you'll be playing more and reading less.
Amazon link: Amazon.com: john archibald chromonotes
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Hi Fastlane community!
I am a long-time lurker (few months of reading the forum), but a first-time poster.
Since it's Sell-Me-Saturday, I thought I'd mention the books that I made a few months ago.
In one sentence: I made ChromoNotes so that I could learn piano faster, and so I could bring back the joy to practicing. The books are just sheet music for classical piano — except every note is colorized according to the rainbow (Western octaves have seven notes — C D E F G B A. C is red, the rest is intuitive from there!). For me, this simple notation change makes the big mess of notes we find in sheet music much easier to understand.
There's three books. The difficulty of music goes from complete beginner to expert, so everyone could find something interesting to learn
About the idea: I've played piano on-and-off for many years, and the thing that always held me back was that practicing was a nightmare, because I couldn't read sheet music easily. I would sooner learn a piece by heart than learn how to read the damn notes. Learning a piece on my own was excruciating (I even used to start learning a new piece by writing out the name of every note with a pencil... it took hours...)
Fast forward a few years, and I've now learned a few programming skills. So I wrote a little piece of software to automatically color every note in a piece of electronic sheet music.
I figured I couldn't be the only person in the world who hated wasting hours trying to decipher those black blobs! So I ran many of the world's most famous piano pieces through my software and compiled the results in a few books.
If you know any pianists, aspiring or professional, then I sincerely believe that they might find my work valuable! If you could take a look or recommend them, I would be eternally grateful.
———————————
As a side-note: I would also be very grateful for any marketing advice. So far I've only gotten five-star reviews but... the sales figures are certainly quite disappointing so far. Maybe the product sucks, or maybe the market is just small. But I think the real problem is that no one knows that my books exist. I base this hypothesis on the fact that I've run a few "free ebook" promotions, and each time there were not very many downloads. I've also enrolled my books in Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, where subscribers can read them for free — but the "pages read" tracker tells me that people barely look at them I don't want to give up yet!
If anyone on the forum has experience with Amazon self-publishing, or book publishing in general, then I would really love to hear everything you've got to say!
Thank you for your time!
Live long and prosper