The story

This project was born out of my experience as a klezmer student. Studying with clarinetist Alex Parke, I kept getting stuck trying to identify which scale we were playing — especially during doyne, where modal fluency is everything.

By the time the doyne started to breathe and call for modal color, I had already lost the thread between Freygish and Misheberach.

I decided to tackle it head-on. I used AI (Claude and Lovable) to build, piece by piece, this study material — starting with the scales across all keys in Baermann style, evolving into a modal sequence builder inspired by the architecture of doyne, and arriving at the rhythmic module based on the forms described by Pete Sokolow in "The Compleat Klezmer". It is a living project, in constant evolution, made in the hope of serving other musicians facing the same difficulties.

Credits

Created by Gabriel Altali. Built with Claude (Anthropic) and Lovable, in iterative collaboration with AI. The musicological foundation owes much to the work of Pete Sokolow, Mark Slobin, A.Z. Idelsohn, and to the oral tradition of masters such as Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein.