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Re: Show HN: Interactive Circle of Fifths

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Post by jweissman »

absolutely love this project!! will definitely use this as compositional aid...

a few thoughts:

- it would be nice to go "the other direction" here too -- from a set of chords, tell me the possible ambient key environments

- the only thing ux wise i can pick at is the squiggly underline

- support for modulation would be amazing (a basic query there might be just "find any/all common chords between two selected key environments")

Re: Show HN: Interactive Circle of Fifths

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Post by tejohnso »

Pretty good as a visual and auditory reference. But it could use a bit more detail on the why / how. For example, it shows "C major scale" with notes CDEFGAB. But then when you click the Cmaj button it only plays CGE. Why only three notes? A chord can have more than three. Why those specific ones? Why is it that notes CDEFGAB make up the C major scale?

I guess it gets complicated, and that's why there are so many links to external sites for more information.

Re: Show HN: Interactive Circle of Fifths

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Post by andybak »

tejohnso wrote: post #3

Pretty good as a visual and auditory reference. But it could use a bit more detail on the why / how. For example, it shows "C major scale" with notes CDEFGAB. But then when you click the Cmaj button it only plays CGE. Why only three notes? A chord can have more than three. Why those specific ones? Why is it that notes CDEFGAB make up the C major scale? I guess it gets complicated, and that's why there are so many lin…

I'm not sure it's meant to teach music theory. As you observe, that would get complicated.

> But then when you click the Cmaj button it only plays CGE.

Because those are the notes in Cmaj

> Why only three notes? A chord can have more than three.

Yes but not Cmaj.

I don't know if you're asking these questions yourself or putting yourself in the place of someone who is learning theory - but it seems a strange criticism of a single page interactive website that it fails to explain the vast amount of arbitrary information embedded in western standard practice.

Re: Show HN: Interactive Circle of Fifths

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Post by unfolding »

I am always happy to see so much music theory content here. I have a bachelor of music for my undergrad, and working on my mscs at the moment. There must be a lot of people like me who discovered their love / interest in computation through music theory.
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