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Re: Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app

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Post by apizon »

Rendello wrote: post #60
apizon wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Good luck with your endeavours!

Not too great, my practice time has been severely impacted by the making of this app ironically

Re: Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app

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Post by apizon »

xcf_seetan wrote: post #10

The name is misleading. Initially i thought it was about creating new guitar designs. First time i heard "Guitar Theory", maybe OP was thinking about Music Theory, which, in itself, is a vast subject. It is more a harmony app, a.k.a. a Guitar Chord App. Other than that, it is a nice app to learn how to play individual chords.

The intented meaning was more something like "Music theory applied for guitar" indeed but I can see the confusion

Re: Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app

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Post by apizon »

dprotaso wrote: post #24

Curious how you settled on your pricing?

Gut feeling I suppose ? Pricing less felt like selling it short considering I still have quite a few features and content I want to add to the app, pricing more felt too much considering it's missing aforementioned features (:

I might bump the price to $50 in a year or so if I'm satisfied with the new content/features and feel like it deserves it (only for new users, lifetime owner will get all updates for free obviously).

Re: Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app

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Post by deckar01 »

If I quickly play two different notes there is a pop/crack noise. It doesn’t do this during any of the automatic sequences (likely, because it waits for the sample to stop before playing the next). (iOS)

When I went back to see if I could reproduce this outside of the Audio Challenge recap, the audio was broken. All sounds were choppy and delayed. Restarting the app the first time didn’t fix it, but switching back to the classical guitar and restarting did. I can’t seem to reproduce it now (other than the manual pop/crack).

Re: Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app

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Post by apizon »

username223 wrote: post #34

Interesting. I was a fairly serious amateur guitarist in a former life, and the physical skill was the hard part. Playing a Bach lute suite, or something like this ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQXvMWojs28 ), takes an incredible amount of strength and precision. With 1-2 hours per day of practice, learning that kind of material took weeks or months.

Funny I've always found the technicality of the guitar to be the easier part on the contrary.

Don't get me wrong, playing a piece like this cleanly and with such feel takes great skill and is probably not something I will ever be able to do but I mean easy in the sense that you can quite clearly see the path to take to get there (or halfway there). "Just" learn the piece slowly block by block, then repeat it for hundreds of hours without much thinking until it flows by itself (I'm simplifying but you get my point).

On the other hand, while theory can be grasped quite fast, applying it to your playing, composing, and improvising with it has always felt to me like a multifaceted beast that you have absolutely no idea at which angle to tackle from. You just stumble your way around it until the pieces start clicking together and it's really hard to find a clear path to follow which makes it much harder imo, or at least more frustrating/blurry.

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Post by apizon »

blueboo wrote: post #15

These are fun to make. But the real value prop would be demonstrating the effect of following the proposed practice the app indicates. …have you yourself actually tried it? Where was your technique and where is it now?

If by proposed practice you mean the tidy bits of guidelines at the end of some lessons, those are mostly just general tips for beginners more than a clear plan to follow.

I believe the value of the app is in learning how all those musical block work and interact together, how to recognize them by ear and visualize them on the neck so you can incorporate them in your playing rather than an app to learn the technicality of the guitar.

As for my own playing, as stated in another comment it has quite suffered from my lack of practice due to the time spent on making this...

Re: Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app

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Post by 999900000999 »

apizon wrote: post #57
999900000999 wrote: post #51

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.

Thanks :)

So this is a weird request, but if you can, would there be any way to get this as a website.

I would love to practice in front of my TV, which is pretty easy once I plug my laptop into my television. It's doable on Android, but it's not really an ideal use case

Re: Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app

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Post by Rendello »

apizon wrote: post #61
Rendello wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Good luck with your endeavours! Not too great, my practice time has been severely impacted by the making of this app ironically

Hopefully you can reap the benefits of the sowing, both monetarily and skill-wise!
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