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Looks cool. The natural minor is missing the flat 3rd, though. You might want to fix that both on the screen and in the PDFs. It might be helpful to put a flat
by ksaj 2y ago
Looks cool. The natural minor is missing the flat 3rd, though. You might want to fix that both on the screen and in the PDFs.
It might be helpful to put a flat sign or sharp sign in the dots to really drive it home, too. That way you don't have to reference the blacked keys so often.
Since you're using it to learn piano, it seems confusing to me that your scale notes look like black keys, which are all flats on the piano. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a piano octave skeuomorph there?
- shersch 2y agoI'm not 100% sure I'm understanding your suggestion, but if I am, the flats and sharps in the dots could be misleading. In the dots it, the accidentals would be relative to the tonic, but it wouldn't actually mean that the note being played is sharp or flat.
- ksaj 2y agoIt wouldn't be, since you've already decided they refer to the note and not its position. It'll help keep you cognizant of the sharps and flats without looking at the bottom every time. Although this is for piano, your scale at the bottom looks like a really wonky piano keyboard. The black keys are actually all the white keys. Unless this is for a harpsichord, but I digress. It does show that you haven't decided whether a sharp or flat would refer to the note name or its position. If it was numbers at the bottom, it would indeed mean something different than if it has the alphabetic note names there, as it does. That shows very well what at least one of the problems with this chart is. The way this is laid out means you are constantly doing multiple translations in order to learn a scale.
- kepano 2y agoFixed that missing natural minor note! Oops. The reason for the notes being black is because I have a B&W laser printer and it was the best way for me to create something distinct and visible next to the piano keys.