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I did a lot of tab in my youth, but got nowhere with it; I think because I didn’t understand theory like chords, scales etc, and when exposed, I never recognize
by jl2718 6y ago
I did a lot of tab in my youth, but got nowhere with it; I think because I didn’t understand theory like chords, scales etc, and when exposed, I never recognized them. Ear players seem to be able to chord along to just about anything and then add detail until it resembles the original. There must be some way to help the learner recognize the theory while teaching rote.
- jacquesm 6y agoThis is something that is very high on my wishlist, what I would like to do (and some of the code is already in the project) is to detect chords as they are played and annotate them. But because there are a lot of ways to express the same chord this is not so simple. Work in progress!
- nitrogen 6y agoI once wanted to build something like a graph of chord transitions from thousands of different songs, with weights based on how often that transition occurs in a genre given the previous N chords. Maybe something like that would help with giving chords natural names for their context?
- jacquesm 6y agoYes, that is one avenue. I made a - hopefully exhaustive - list of chords the other day and I was surprised at how much I did not know. The next step is to analyze my midi file collection to see what kind of graph can be constructed and how the edges can be annotated. It's a very interesting problem. And in a way that is why I love this project: it combines both of the things I love.
- kzrdude 6y agoDo you mean guitar tabs? (By "tab")? Seeing the music theory and logic behinds chords and scales is a lot easier with keyboard instruments.