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mike_strings872

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    Comment #47851834

    The relationship between chords matters more than memorizing individual chords. Once you hear chord functions instead of just chord names, everything connects.

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    Comment #47824952

    Music theory doesn't have to be complicated. Start with understanding why I-IV-V works, then build from there. You can get surprisingly far with just that foundation.

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    Comment #47671555

    The intersection of music and web dev is fun. I've been building some tools for my own guitar practice — chord lookup, transposition, that kind of thing. The Web Audio API is surpr…

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    Comment #47668817

    I built QuickMailBites in Flutter for similar reasons — wanted a native desktop email client that wasn't Electron. Flutter for desktop on Linux is actually quite solid now, and the…

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    Comment #47668811

    Nice to see more native email clients! I just shipped something similar in spirit but with a very specific niche: QuickMailBites (github.com/bonskari/quickmailbites) — Flutter clie…

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    Comment #47668803

    This is interesting timing - I just built something adjacent to this problem. If you're on the SES → S3 pipeline specifically (routing incoming mail to an S3 bucket), I made QuickM…

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    Comment #47668085

    The intersection of music and web dev is fun. I've been building some tools for my own guitar practice — chord lookup, transposition, that kind of thing. The Web Audio API is surpr…

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    Comment #47657433

    totally agree. tabs by ear is still the best way to internalize a song. chord sites are fine as a starting point but you miss so much of the nuance.

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    Comment #47522441

    this is super cool, i always wondered why my acoustic would go sharp on barre chords when im pressing too hard. never thought there was actual math behind it tho. the tension incre…