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Show HN: JazzKeys.fyi – Tutorials for jazz and funk keyboard players
Web developer and jazz piano player here. I’ve just launched JazzKeys.fyi (https://JazzKeys.fyi https://JazzKeys.fyi), a website of tutorials covering bebop, modern jazz, blues and funk. It’s more or less a brain dump of some of what I’ve learned over the course of playing and studying jazz for ~25 years. I would likely have found it useful back when I started, and I created it in the hope that it might be helpful to others.
The main audience for the site is people who already have some facility in playing a keyboard instrument (in any genre), and who want to learn jazz or improve their jazz playing. It assumes a basic understanding of how scales and chords work.
Building the animated keyboard that accompanies each musical example was quite a rewarding technical challenge. For anyone interested in the details, there is a blog post about it at https://www.jamieonkeys.dev/posts/piano-keyboard-javascript/ https://www.jamieonkeys.dev/posts/piano-keyboard-javascript/.
I hope folk find the site to be a helpful resource. Feedback and bug reports welcome!
- ESTheComposer 4y agoYour site is spewing an insane amount of confetti like 20 times on the first load of the page
- donbrae 4y agoSorry, that was in celebration of the launch. In fairness to me, I limit it to the first load and don’t run it if the user prefers-reduced-motion.
- ESTheComposer 4y agoSure but you run so many iterations of it it bogs the whole thing down
- donbrae 4y agoFair enough. I reduced it.