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Re: Show HN: A free tool to visualise scales on a guitar

#11

Post by alok-g »

This is lovely!

Two features that would be useful for me:

1. Being able to see multiple chords in a time sequence that use a given note, say E4. My teacher told me that I should practice singing a given note while playing multiple chords having that note. This would help with singing, ear training to recognize chords by the ear, as well as learning chord progressions for a given song. Initially I would like this to be any chords through a given note, whether on the scale or not, and later also limiting to those falling on a given scale.

2. It may be helpful to be able to rotate and flip the fretboard diagram. This is just to match the orientation I see elsewhere like in a book.

Re: Show HN: A free tool to visualise scales on a guitar

#13

Post by ambewas »

alok-g wrote: post #11

This is lovely! Two features that would be useful for me: 1. Being able to see multiple chords in a time sequence that use a given note, say E4. My teacher told me that I should practice singing a given note while playing multiple chords having that note. This would help with singing, ear training to recognize chords by the ear, as well as learning chord progressions for a given song. Initially I would like this to b…

I totally agree, in fact feature number one is already planned. It'll probably be in the form of a chord schema generator and player that also shows you which scales and roots/thirds... you can use in a given chord.

For 2, it's possible to flip the fretboard to a lefty guitar. Is that what you are looking for? You can find the option under settings. Or do you mean flipping it vertically?

Re: Show HN: A free tool to visualise scales on a guitar

#14

Post by ambewas »

alexsohn1126 wrote: post #10

Holy crap, I was about to ask for an alternate tuning options but you already have it in the website! Awesome website overall, I will share it to everyone I know who plays guitar :)

Thanks a lot for sharing!

Yeah, I love the tuning option myself!

Re: Show HN: A free tool to visualise scales on a guitar

#15

Post by alok-g »

ambewas wrote: post #13
alok-g wrote: post #11

This is lovely! Two features that would be useful for me: 1. Being able to see multiple chords in a time sequence that use a given note, say E4. My teacher told me that I should practice singing a given note while playing multiple chords having that note. This would help with singing, ear training to recognize chords by the ear, as well as learning chord progressions for a given song. Initially I would like this to b…

I totally agree, in fact feature number one is already planned. It'll probably be in the form of a chord schema generator and player that also shows you which scales and roots/thirds... you can use in a given chord. For 2, it's possible to flip the fretboard to a lefty guitar. Is that what you are looking for? You can find the option under settings. Or do you mean flipping it vertically?

Vertically as well as 90 degrees.

https://www.google.com/search?output=search&q=Chords

See how most images are showing chords. The fret is laid out vertically. I've been using those and can thereby read that more naturally.

Re: Show HN: A free tool to visualise scales on a guitar

#16

Post by ambewas »

nikodotio wrote: post #12

Wow, I built almost the same thing to learn clojure, but without the sheen and professionalism of yours! Mine can also handle banjos https://niko.io/projects/scales/out/index.html

Very cool! I like the non standard fretting as well. Neat feature

Re: Show HN: A free tool to visualise scales on a guitar

#17

Post by ambewas »

alok-g wrote: post #15
ambewas wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally agree, in fact feature number one is already planned. It'll probably be in the form of a chord schema generator and player that also shows you which scales and roots/thirds... you can use in a given chord. For 2, it's possible to flip the fretboard to a lefty guitar. Is that what you are looking for? You can find the option under settings. Or do you mean flipping it vertically?

Vertically as well as 90 degrees. https://www.google.com/search?output=search&q=Chords See how most images are showing chords. The fret is laid out vertically. I've been using those and can thereby read that more naturally.

Oh right! I see what you mean. Got it, awesomeme idea: Chord charts like these are as of now a planned feature. Something to look out for in the future.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Show HN: A free tool to visualise scales on a guitar

#19

Post by ambewas »

FretLabs wrote: post #18

Very cool! About to go live with a similar tool but it renders a dynamic fretboard while listening to songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8709yXI82ms

Oh nice, that looks really cool! How did you get the fretboard to sync up with those songs? Ai or some manual encoding work somehow?

Well done!

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