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Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists

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Re: Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists

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Post by GitRHero »

osteele wrote: post #48

This is great! A suggestion: show pitch constellations[1]. Piano/violin music theorists have written me that these were helpful in [2]. (I'd offer you code, but it's so ancient that it's probably not helpful :-( ) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_circle#Pitch_constel... [2] http://osteele.github.io/fingerboard/

Just a heads up that your fingerboard app seems to be working incorrectly regarding displaying the names of sharps and flats on the fretboard diagram (in some cases).

For example, if I load the page and immediately click on an Eb on the piano, the fingerboard layout is correct, and the correct scale degrees are highlighted, but Eb are labeled as Db in the fretboard diagram. Similarly Bb are labelled as Abm etc. It seems like you just switched the sharp/flat symbol without also switching the note letter.

Otherwise awesome tool, this will be very useful for me!

Re: Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists

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Post by criddell »

jMyles wrote: post #28

Very interesting and pretty tool! I wonder: on the "scales" dropdown, why didn't you include pentatonic? It's so prevalent across so many styles of music; it seems like a must.

I agree with you. It's prevalent and is also one of the very first thing most guitar players learn. It definitely feels like it should be a prominent part of the UI and not just hidden away in some video.

Re: Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists

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Post by bcheung »

This is very nice.

If I might add a suggestion, it takes a while to fine the number of the chord. For example, if I'm trying to figure out what 1-4-5-1 would be, I have to hunt until I find the 4 and 5. Would be cool if there was another view that was the Nashville number system in sequence to make it quicker to find.

For example:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

C D E F G A B

Re: Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists

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Post by byproxy »

supernovae wrote: post #10
throwaway8879 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While these tools are useful, I recommend oldschool hard copy books to get started properly, if you're relatively serious about it. There are some great books for guitar put out by Berklee, I don't recall the names right now, but I do remember a series that had 4 books from intro to advanced. I spent a lot of years learning guitar technique while not progressing much on the music theory side until I started reading M…

Got quite a collection of intro books, but nothing on theory really. I had hand surgery on my frett hand a few months ago and still do physical therapy twice a week - just now getting some strength back so while I recover, trying to learn more music theory since my practice sessions are limited by a screwed up hand. I tell ya what though, practicing guitar is better than most of my PT exercises :)

I'd recommend learning theory concepts removed from the guitar, at least initially.

https://www.musictheory.net/lessons will pretty much teach you what you'd learn in two years at university. Honestly, I find it the best resource to get up to speed on common practice period music theory.

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