Jalmus is a free, open source music education software helping the musicians, specially pianists, to improve their sight-reading. You can train to read music with both exercises on notes or rhythms.

New in v2.1

• Bugfix: turn off keyboard sound.
• Bugfix : Tempo settings for rhythms reading.
• Bugfix : "route" keyboard sound to an external midi device to avoid latency when playing notes.

New in v2.0

• Mixed Exercises (combinednote reading, rhythm reading and score reading)
• You can save all exercises on the Preferences panel.
• Custom notes with accidentals on Score Reading exercise.
• Some graphics improvements for rhythms
• Adding dotted half on rhythm exercises
• Jalmus could work with any acoustic instrument by using Prodipe Solo
• Few lessons for violin and sax alto
• New shortcut in lesson’s menu to open lesson’s directory and modify/create/delete directly the XML files (with any text editor).
• In lesson mode you can pass an exercise by Escape key
• Fixing permission problem installer for Windows 7

New in v1.8

• Now supports 4/4, 3/4, 2/4 tempo
• Window can now be re-sized
• Added time signature alterations indicators
• Removed speed cursor parameter
• Show Metronome beats and cursor progress (optional)
• Removed BareBoneBrowser class.
• Jalmus now requires Java 6 to natively open a web browser
• Removed GIF pictures to display notes
• MusiSync truetype font used to display Notes (credits to Robert Allgeyer)
• GIF background changed to PNG to be lighter
• Metronome now uses MIDI channel 10, to use drum samples
• Most of the source code is now in English