Please visit http://eight-beat.sf.net for the tutorial8-Beat is a flexible language. It is almost entirely case insensitive, many pieces of syntax may be omitted for brevity, and it provides many ways of doing the same thing. For example, there are many ways of providing octave change directives to 8-Beat. These range from hardcoded octaves attached to notes, to octave = 5, even to the extremely terse +.