3$ a month or 30$ forever.
It's actually seems pretty fair, a decent guitar is going to run you a good sum of money, and if this can actually take me from knowing nothing to being competent, you can have my money.
Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app
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#52Ui looks nice mate! I’d consider myself an eternally intermediate guitar player. Hit a level of competence and haven’t had the time/drive to move past it. Slightly unrelated, but I’ve always found the current ear training apps to not really translate to helping me pick out songs by ear. I’ve always wanted an app that focuses more on learning songs by ear, finding the root not and chords/melodies, vs just isolated int…
Thanks for the feedback
Not sure how those app works but as others have said apps alone will probably not be enough to entirely translate to the instrument and actually practicing picking up songs or transcribing them will be needed.
I can also recommend the great Sonofield Ear Trainer app by Max Konyi for intervals and melody recognition (no relations to him at all but I took some inspiration for the interval recognition part so just want to credit him). He also has a youtube channel and actually released a video called "From Ear Training Apps to Real Music" 2 days ago which might be of interest to you.
As for my app I think it does pretty good at training chord recognition. I also plan on adding lessons on chord progressions at some point in the future so there will be challenges associated to it, I think recognizing progressions is probably the most useful when trying to pick up songs by ear.
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#53this looks super nice! ive been meaning to learn guitar a bit, and im wondering is this app also suitable for complete beginners?
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#54I too am an eternally intermediate guitarist. Have you found this theory training to be helpful in some practical way? For example did this help you get better at improvisation?
I don't think the app alone will directly make you better at improvisation as this comes only from playing imo but it might make you better at practicing improvisation.
Personally I find when practicing alone I often get stuck on playing the same phrases and chords.
The app can help visualizing and thinking of new shapes or places to play that maybe I wouldn't have though of naturally. This brings some most welcomed novelty to my playing until I get bored with it again.
Rince and repeat ad vitam æternam as I don't think one can ever reach a eternal state of contentment with one's playing. Or in other words, there is no leaving intermediate guitaristry I guess but that's okay (:
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#55this looks super nice! ive been meaning to learn guitar a bit, and im wondering is this app also suitable for complete beginners?
Thanks, I'm not gonna lie it's probably not the best or at least should not be your only resource.
It can be pretty useful if you're someone that likes understanding how things work but for pure playing skills learning to play songs you like using a chord or tabs book/app/website or a better a teacher will probably get you started much quicker and you can learn the theory at any point later when you feel like it
Beginner lessons are free though so you can still check it out
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#56Very nice! What's under the hood?
Thanks ! Flutter for front-end and PocketBase on a €5/month VPS for the backend (which is not even breaking a sweat despite the blow up of this post so really happy with that) + RevenueCat for purchase handling and Sentry for error reporting
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#573$ a month or 30$ forever. It's actually seems pretty fair, a decent guitar is going to run you a good sum of money, and if this can actually take me from knowing nothing to being competent, you can have my money.
Thanks :)
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#58I really like the language-learning inspiration here — music theory really is its own language, and repetition is what turns knowledge into instinct. Curious how you decided on the difficulty curve for the challenges. That’s always a tough balance to strike.
No clear methodology, I just tried for every lesson to bring the topic to its bare minimum for the easy difficulty, then add one layer for normal and one more for hard when possible, if not just adding more possible answers which is not ideal but some topics really are too specific to make variants.
As for the "progressive" difficulty mode, it just goes over the 3 levels so it's more of difficulty plateaus than a curve per say
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#59Beautiful website :) will try it
Thanks, good ol' wordpress still does the job
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#60Just tried this out and I’m loving it, especially the UI/UX. The welcome screen animations are great, they make the onboarding feel smooth and polished. I love that the navigation icons show labels when active, so you always know where you are. The built-in tutorial on the Learn screen is a really nice touch, and the Library is genuinely useful (I’ll definitely be using it for scales and arpeggios). Also, the Go Prem…
Thanks a lot The app is made with flutter with mostly just the default widgets that I customized a bit. I'm not really that versed into UI/UX so I just tried to keep things simple design wise. As for performance, I didn't even have to do that much optimization except for the library part to have smooth scrolling when displaying hundreds of diagrams but overall the framework is pretty fast and a joy to work with. I'd…
> I'd say the hardest part honestly was just staying consistent for more than a year alone without really any feedback and just sticking to it a little every evening and on the week-end rather than playing a game or something.
I'm in the same boat right now. Good on you for releasing!
> [from the post] the eternally "intermediate" guitarist (myself included).
So, how are your guitar skills now?