The blues scale should somehow indicate that the flat 3rd needs to be bent up to get that blue note from West African music that sits between our flat and natural thirds in western tonality. It’s absolutely necessary to get a real blues sound.
Show HN: Interactive guitar scales diagrams
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#32Very nice! It might be nice to have (at least as an option) the fretboard narrow the distance between frets as you go up the neck, like a real fretboard.
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#33This is quite cool, nice work! I'm a self-taught player and only in the last five years or so have I managed to punch through the fog and begin to understand what I'm doing. This is a great tool for visualizing scale positions and finding roots. I use smartchord on my phone, but this is a much more accessible reference when playing. +1 for including the Martin serial number lookup, although I already knew my D18 was built in 1974 :).
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#34Love 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 usefu…
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add help files and explain scaler/pentanizer differences. Scaler is "traditional" way of learning scales, but I think pentanizer makes more sense...it just needs to be explained bit more.
My main focus right now is to introduce print possibilities. I am just bit tight on time right now.
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#35Pretty 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.
I'll introduce alternate tuning, although it might take few months as I am busy with some other improvements (printing being one of them)
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#36Good stuff! Any plans to add arpeggio patterns?
added to my .plan (stay tuned;-)..no pun intended)
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#37The last row of buttons don't work on mobile (they don't update the view)
to be honest, I targeted desktop audience, and running linux (and android) myself, I am bit limited in this (testing) area. I might be getting an iOSmac device soon so that might help. What browser/OS are you using?
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#38Damn I'm not seeing anything other than the navigation and a red footer, in Firefox on latest Android.
sorry about that, just downloaded firefox on android and for me it does render the fretboard but it only takes like 1/3 of the screen. Will look into it asap.
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#39Nice work, love SVG use. Can this be flipped for left handers?
unfortunately, not at the moment. I think with some code "flipping" it would be easy to support. I;ll look into it.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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'.
I hope this might help (I am not very good at explaining it):
https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/17426/naming-scale...