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Nice work. I like it. Some suggestions: * Can we have an option to show the note names (A, Bb, B etc.) instead of the relative scale positions? Crucial for learning the actual fingerboard notes IMO. You may already have it there, but I may have missed it. (Ability to toggle between the two would be fantastic). * Fingerboard markers are not as obvious as I would like. I was looking for fret numbers actually, and then…
Professional guitar teacher here. I had to look for a few minutes myself before this started making some sense. I'm sorry to say that I can't feed to this to my students as it is. On one hand, it's extremely information dense. All the colors! On the other hand, it seems to lack crucial information that might make it worthwile. Sorry if that sounds very negative. I do appreciate the effort a lot! And I di see potentia…
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Let's give it a shot. So first I have marked "Pentatonic Minor" and "A" as our key since this is probably a scale that you know. What you are seeing are all the notes in the scale laid out on the fret board. If you look at fret 5 (second dot) and starting from the E string you'll see a red dot with a R in it. This is the "Root" of the scale, namely A. The next note is on the 8th fret and has a "b3" in it. You read th…
The A Major scale is A B C# D E Gb G#
(Gb needs to be F# there. One reason is that theory can't assume instruments to be equally tempered to begin with; some brasses won't for example.)
Professional guitar teacher here. I had to look for a few minutes myself before this started making some sense. I'm sorry to say that I can't feed to this to my students as it is. On one hand, it's extremely information dense. All the colors! On the other hand, it seems to lack crucial information that might make it worthwile. Sorry if that sounds very negative. I do appreciate the effort a lot! And I di see potentia…
If you keep the layout, keep all the buttons in place (maybe invisibe or grayed out), and strip down the interface to just one idea, what idea would you use to communicate how to use this tool?
I've got questions...
1. What is the relationship between the bottom colored dots and the colored notes? I'm looking in the "scalar" tool, key of C. It looks like the bottom dots are for coloring a cross-fretboard position. I would have expected the red bottom dot to mark the position from C on the 8th fret for all the scales, as it does for pentatonic minor to dorian. However pentatonic and blues major are on the 5th fret position, and major is in open position.
2. The pentanizer, what is it? I also don't understand the relationship between the colored and numbered dots and the fretboard coloring. The UI has a strange way of switching the numbers if I switch the scales. E.g. select pentatonic major, red dot, and 1 dot. Then switch to pentatonic minor, and it auto-switches to 5 dot. Overall, it's pretty disorienting the relationship between these design elements and the scales. Or I've fundamentally misunderstood the tool.
3. What tools did you use to make this? Will you open source?
Thank you, you're really killing it!
First, it must be said that this is super cool, and I love it so much! I've got questions... 1. What is the relationship between the bottom colored dots and the colored notes? I'm looking in the "scalar" tool, key of C. It looks like the bottom dots are for coloring a cross-fretboard position. I would have expected the red bottom dot to mark the position from C on the 8th fret for all the scales, as it does for penta…
I'm quite familiar with the music theory behind all of the scales, having played instruments for over 30 years, but I'm not finding the information display or interface to be very intuitive.
could you be any more constructive, I mean, which parts are confusing / none intuitive?
- the hover effect makes the lighter color buttons seem to disappear, especially once pressed
- I have no idea what the R button does or why
- pentatonic major is an uncommon scale and odd choice for default - pentatonic minor might be better, or just major
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could you be any more constructive, I mean, which parts are confusing / none intuitive?
A couple issues/questions on desktop: - the hover effect makes the lighter color buttons seem to disappear, especially once pressed - I have no idea what the R button does or why - pentatonic major is an uncommon scale and odd choice for default - pentatonic minor might be better, or just major
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A couple issues/questions on desktop: - the hover effect makes the lighter color buttons seem to disappear, especially once pressed - I have no idea what the R button does or why - pentatonic major is an uncommon scale and odd choice for default - pentatonic minor might be better, or just major
R marks "relative" major/minor, for example: A minor pentatonic is relative to C major pentatonic (contains same notes/shapes, just root note is different). I can/could change defaults, but, all your presets should be saved between the sessions (your next visit). I am in the middle of making some interface changes, hopefully buttons will behave better after it. Thanks for feedback.
One thing I want to mention is that tool tips or other onscreen help would be useful.