My company, Binary Guilt Software, has been spotlighted by Google Play on #WeArePlayEurope!
We are one of 3 companies selected to represent Belgium 🇧🇪
Stéphane Dupont
guitarist / composer / developer / teacher
My company, Binary Guilt Software, has been spotlighted by Google Play on #WeArePlayEurope!
We are one of 3 companies selected to represent Belgium 🇧🇪
Very proud to announce that I have just released Complete Music Trainer, an application allowing to access Complete Ear Trainer, Complete Rhythm Trainer and Complete Music Reading Trainer on a desktop computer!
Complete Music Trainer is available directly in a browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari are supported), or via packaged desktop apps (Windows and macOS), and it contains the entirety of our three acclaimed apps in a single convenient user interface.
… but that’s not all, I have also just released new versions of all our apps on Android and iOS with many improvements: in-app achievements, cross-platform leaderboards, cross-platform cloud sync, cross-platform license, … See the full announcement here for more details: https://binaryguilt.com/blog/complete-music-trainer-released/
Very excited about this new cross-platform architecture and about the ability to access the apps on any device!
I always liked how the classical guitar technique known as tremolo sounds on an electric guitar with a slight touch of saturation and delay.
This is from Progeny, a song I wrote for my band Helium Horse Fly and that is available on the album Hollowed here:
► Bandcamp: https://heliumhorsefly.bandcamp.com/album/hollowed
► Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vvxvdI7Fo0
► Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1KHrtM2pJ48jmV8krjpsPt
► Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/hollowed/1439572236
The three apps that I have created and developed (Complete Ear Trainer, Complete Rhythm Trainer and Complete Music Reading Trainer) have been downloaded more than 2 million times on Google Play!
I’m humbled by this, and hope that these apps have been useful to most of the people that downloaded them.
I have started to work on some really cool things that are coming in the near-future for these apps, more information coming soon!
The translation and localization management system I initially developed to crowdsource the translation of the apps Complete Ear Trainer, Complete Rhythm Trainer and Complete Music Reading Trainer has just been released publicly as a fully-featured software under the name Cocoon.
You can see more details by going to https://cocoon-translation.com. If you have a game, app, software, website, or any project that would benefit from a crowdsourced translation (or if you want to ease the work of your translators), there is a demo and a free 30 days trial so please have a look!
Complete Rhythm Trainer and Complete Music Reading Trainer are now available on iOS!
See the more detailed blog post here.
Here’s a solo classical guitar arrangement I made of Dirtmouth from Hollow Knight. Hollow Knight is a wonderful video game made by Team Cherry, with music composed by Christopher Larkin.
The sheet music of this arrangement is available for free here:
Pretty happy with my workspace, so I thought I’d share a quick photo of where I work:
A few of the tools I use:
Most of my guitars can also be seen on this photo, including:
It sure helps in these stay-at-home containment times!
Almost a year since I have made a post about Complete Ear Trainer, Complete Rhythm Trainer and Complete Music Reading Trainer. Time for an update!
First I have a developed a translation management system so anyone can help translating the apps in different languages. You can find it here: https://translate.binaryguilt.com. Thanks to this tool, but above all thanks to the wonderful Maksym Vlasov, Ezequiel Santos, Tomasz Sęczkowski, Christian Plonka and Miranda Roll-Lund:
Then, these last few months I added two sections to Complete Rhythm Trainer: Polyrhythms (play and practice any polyrhythm) and Free Practice (write and play any rhythm).
On the iOS side, Benjamin Rossi is hard at work on the iOS port and we finally released custom programs for the iOS version of Complete Ear Trainer. Custom programs are of course cross-platform and you can create custom programs for your students that can be joined and played from both Android and iOS devices. Remaining features are currently ported (additional sound banks, UI update, etc.) and as soon as it is done, Complete Rhythm Trainer and Complete Music Reading Trainer port will start. We hope to release everything this year.
That’s all for now!
As I did not find (m)any good duos that my beginner classical guitar students could play, I wrote a few very simple and easy classical guitar duos.
They are aimed to be played (depending on the students) between the end of the first year and the end of the second year of classical guitar training.
You can download them here.
Wezl Z Wezl made a beautiful video edit mixing images from the movie The VVitch: A New-England Folktale and Helium Horse Fly‘s song Progeny.
Excited to announce that our brand new app Complete Rhythm Trainer has been released on Android!
About the app:
The ultimate rhythm training app for musicians. Learn to read, recognize, tap and write rhythms from simplest to most advanced. Rhythm is one of the most important aspects of music and one that every musician should become proficient with. Designed like a video game and with strong pedagogical concepts in mind, this app will make you master rhythm while rendering the learning process enjoyable.
Features:
Get it here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binaryguilt.completerhythmtrainer
It is a great pleasure to announce that our brand new app Complete Music Reading Trainer has been released on Android!
About the app:
The ultimate music reading training app. Designed like a video game and with strong pedagogical concepts in mind, Complete Music Reading Trainer is the fastest way to learn to read sheet music and improve your sight-reading skills. Whichever clef you want to learn and whatever your instrument is, the app will make you master any chosen clef or clef combination while rendering the learning process enjoyable.
Features:
Get it here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binaryguilt.completemusicreadingtrainer
Complete Ear Trainer v2.0.0 has just been released on Android.
It includes:
Get it here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binaryguilt.completeeartrainer
A video for Shelter, the closing track of Helium Horse Fly‘s new album Hollowed:
While waiting for Hollowed to be released we (Helium Horse Fly) had some time on our hands, so we went back to Blend Studio (where we recorded the album) with a few video cameras and filmed live versions of almost all songs that are on Hollowed (Happiness, In A Deathless Spell, Algeny and Monochrome), plus an older song from our eponymous album (Surgery Plains).
Here are the videos:
A huge thank you to Xavier Dromard who recorded, mixed and mastered this, to Farid Agjij, Sébastien Augier and Pierre-Michel Chevigné who filmed it, and to Nicolas Chevailler for helping us with the video edit.
I have been interviewed by Fabrizio Garau for the Italian magazine The New Noise and talked about Hollowed, influences, guitar sound, Virus and more.
Check it here: https://www.thenewnoise.it/helium-horse-fly-combatterai-il-fuoco-col-fuoco-o-starai-seduto-li-a-bruciare/
Excited about being able to write this: the new Helium Horse Fly record, Hollowed is out now!
Hollowed is available in vinyl, CD and digital on our Bandcamp page. You can also stream it on Spotify, iTunes, Youtube and all major music streaming platforms.
Here’s the record’s full tracklist:
Very proud of releasing this record today. We also have a few things to share in the next weeks, so stay tuned for more announcements soon!
I’m thrilled to announce that the new Helium Horse Fly album Hollowed is now available for preorder on Bandcamp.
Hollowed will be available on January 18 2019 in vinyl, CD and digital, as well as on Spotify, iTunes and all major music streaming platforms.
Here’s the first track of the album, Happiness:
I’m really excited about this new record and can’t wait to share the full release next month!
After months of hard work, I’m excited to release a whole new feature for Complete Ear Trainer: Custom Programs.
In addition to still be able to create quick single custom drills, you can now create full custom training programs with up to 20 chapters and 20 drills per chapter. Custom programs are really useful if you want to build a personalized training program and are offering many options: chapters/simple drill list, scoring, stars, number of required stars, etc.
But that’s not all, you can invite friends or students to join your custom programs. Each custom program can have its own private leaderboards and for example if you’re a teacher you can create custom programs for your students, add drills every week and see their scores on the leaderboards.
I’ll sure be using this myself when teaching!
You are more than 200,000 to have downloaded Complete Ear Trainer on Google Play, and more than 2,000 to have reviewed it for an average score of 4.6/5, thank you! Currently working on a new feature that will definitely be useful for teachers and students, stay tuned.
I just published an update for Complete Ear Trainer on Android. New features highlights:
And more, full changelog here: Android Changelog
You are more than 50,000 to have downloaded Complete Ear Trainer on Google Play, and more than 1,000 to have reviewed it for an average score of 4.5/5. Thank you!
A video recording of a niece piece by my friend and composer Dimitri Iannello, La Faune.
I’m currently hard at work on the next Helium Horse Fly record, and we’re doing things differently this time, with more production time and more work at home. I’m discovering that I really enjoy the process of making a record much more that way: having time to try things, to record and edit the guitars myself, etc. Details on the record coming soon.
About Complete Ear Trainer, I wrote and played a small piece of piano for a promotional video a few months ago, here it is:
The iOS version of Complete Ear Trainer has just been published! A few things are missing and will be added in future updates (mainly arcade mode, guitar sound bank and tutorial screens), but these few things apart, the app has been ported exactly the same by my friend Benjamin Rossi. You can even sync your progression between your Android and iOS devices. Happy ear training!
App store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/complete-ear-trainer/id1012455471
I’m really proud to announce that Complete Ear Trainer for Android has been released today. It is an app for smartphones I have been working on since more than a year. You can download it here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binaryguilt.completeeartrainer
The iOS version will be coming soon. Happy ear training!
My band Helium Horse Fly (www.heliumhorsefly.com) just released its first LP. It is available digital/CD digipak here: heliumhorsefly.bandcamp.com/merch
Experimental rock, venomous noise music, progressive baroque hardcore, putting a label on this unusual band is no easy task. A crossroads that brings together diametrically opposed worlds and bridges the gap between extremes, led by a female voice at a cross between incantation and lyricism, Helium Horse Fly offers a musical journey that oscillates between tense breathing spells and cathartic violence.
The collection of sheet music I have edited and published under the name of eLuna editions is now available on the Editions page. The edited pieces are mainly my compositions for classical guitar, as well as a few transcriptions.