Pretty cool! I made something like this a few years ago, but nowhere near as sophisticated. One suggestion: as of late I've been playing guitar in perfect 4ths tuning, and it would be helpful to be able to change the tuning of individual strings on your tool to enable that (and any other alternate tuning)
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Re: Show HN: Interactive guitar scales diagrams
#22Pretty cool! I made something like this a few years ago, but nowhere near as sophisticated. One suggestion: as of late I've been playing guitar in perfect 4ths tuning, and it would be helpful to be able to change the tuning of individual strings on your tool to enable that (and any other alternate tuning)
What kind of music do you play and how do you like the new tuning so far? Were there any unexpected difficulties or benefits?
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#23Pretty cool! I made something like this a few years ago, but nowhere near as sophisticated. One suggestion: as of late I've been playing guitar in perfect 4ths tuning, and it would be helpful to be able to change the tuning of individual strings on your tool to enable that (and any other alternate tuning)
What kind of music do you play and how do you like the new tuning so far? Were there any unexpected difficulties or benefits?
Tuning in 4ths is great for scalar playing. I play in various tunings of 4ths and 5ths, it makes it easier to play fast intervalic runs.
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#24Very nice!
To anyone wanting to break out of that "locked-in" and boxy style of playing both scales and chords, I suggest listening to how Allan Holdsworth approaches arrangement.
His books/instructionals are amazing. Completely changes your perspective on how to build chords and how to play scales over them.
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#25very cool! did you consider adding note sounds? edit: also, what does the 'b' prefix signify? I'm not familiar with it.
I took that to be the flat notes so b6 would be a flat sixth note of the scale.
A minor has no flat notes, but when selected, shows b3, b6, and b7. I must not understand what you mean by 'flat note of a scale'.
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#26Love this. As someone who has been playing casually for years with a few attempts to use scales and music theory to up my base understanding, this is something I could see myself using a lot. Having some labels or explainers for the different toggles would be helpful.
+1 for text explanations.
I have a decent internalized understanding of western music theory and it's application on guitar but it seems like it would be a pain to try and decode the meaning of all of the colors, polygons and icons. Even if I did spend significant time on that, I fear I'd still be left wondering if I was missing some of the insights you might be trying to convey.
For the time being, it might be useful to just provide a key/legend where each term links off to some third party site that already has an explanation of the respective term.
Also, it'd be good to explain what the different views are good for. E.g., what's the difference, when viewing A-minor pentatonic, between the scaler view vs the pentanizer view?
FWIW, I'm on a moderately aged Android phone. If there's more to the desktop experience (e.g., hovertext?) it'd be good to add a note saying so.
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#27Very useful! If you could also add note sounds, that would be amazing!
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#29Pretty cool! I made something like this a few years ago, but nowhere near as sophisticated. One suggestion: as of late I've been playing guitar in perfect 4ths tuning, and it would be helpful to be able to change the tuning of individual strings on your tool to enable that (and any other alternate tuning)
I would also love to be able to explore alternate tunings. I often use DADGAD and CGCFCE for example, among myriad other open tunings.
This also opens up the possibility of using this for other string instruments with other tunings, like ukelele (gCEA) and banjo (gDGBD) et al.
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#30Thank you for the wonderful work.