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

Jalmus is developed in Java and so available on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

Jalmus is a multilingual software supporting - English, French, Spanish, and Deutsch.

Requires Java Runtime Environment. Get It Here.

What's New in version 2.0:

• All exercises could be saved on Preferences panel. After saving your exercise, you can load it from your personal lessons directory.
• Exercises (note reading, rhythm reading and score reading) can be mixed in a same lesson.
• Custom notes with accidentals on Score Reading exercise. Accidentals doesn’t affect other identical notes in the measure like they do (it’s in to do list).
• Some graphics improvements for rhythms (stem up or down according to pitch)
• Adding dotted half on rhythm exercises
• Jalmus could work with any acoustic instrument by using Prodipe Solo
• Few lessons for violin and sax alto (more to come)
• 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