User Analysis:
Music students lead very busy lives: going to class, working to support themselves, and performing and attending other performances. One student, enrolled at Tufts and the New England Conservatory, spends a lot of time commuting between the two schools. Another student is very conscious of paying for his education. Many students attend shows several times each week as part of their education. Like all college students, they struggle to balance their time to meet all of their commitments and lead healthy lives.
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We will focus on developing for college students studying music. We assume they own an Android phone.
Task Analysis:
We plan to address three, high-level tasks that students would like to can do with our app app:
- Composing music sketches on the flyCompose Music Sketches: Users need to create new sketches, place notes on a staff to sketch out themes, bass lines, and or rhythmic patterns. We plan to The app will balance detail of their composition, simplicity of a theme, and space limitations posed by the mobile phone’s screen size. We will offer these features for sketches:** Users will want to:
- Select meter and pitch of the sketch
- Choose clef for the staff
- Place notes on a staff
- Divide staff into measures
- Modify notes with sharps, flats, accents, note length, ties, slurs
- Pitch is could be played when a note is placed added so the user can make sure they are accurately transcribing the phrase. (We will assume that the user has headphones they can use if they are in a noisy environment and want to use this feature. This is a safe assumption because most people use their phones as their music players, too.)
- Add dynamic and expression markings
- Sketches Play BackRecall music that was composed: The user would like to listen to the entire sketch to remember what it sounded like. It may also help them as they transcribe it to their computer or a piece of paper, and help them return to the frame of mind they were in so they can easily expand the sketch into a composition. To accomplish this, the app can accurately play back the sketch, using the specified key signature, time signature, tempo, and note lengths.
- Browse Organize the Saved Files sketches stored on the Phonephone: The user needs a way to organize their sketches on the phone, select a previously saved sketch to edit it or listen to it. Our app will allow users They want to:
- Create new sketches
- View the sketch names of the files the user has stored on the phone
- Select a sketch to edit or hear played play back
TA Feedback.
As we discussed in our meeting, this project in this submission is not a stretch at all. Make sure you focus on something that's not just for MIT students, and that isn't just a layer over a database.
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