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by davec 7y ago
we recently converted Hookpad, our chord and melody sketchpad for teaching and writing music, to a PWA. Prior to being a PWA users often had to redownload samples each time they visited the site, and now they only have to download a sample
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by davec 8y ago
We completely rebuilt this in React/Redux from a previous version based in Flash. We think it does some amazing things with the Web Audio API. Some more info about what we are trying to do: http://www.hooktheory.com/blo
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Show HN: Hookpad, a music editor with music theory inside made with React/Redux(hooktheory.com)
10 points by davec 8y ago|3 comments
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Show HN: Hooktheory, Music theory for songwriting
1 points by davec 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Automatically turn a major song into minor and hear how it sounds(hooktheory.com)
6 points by davec 10y ago|1 comments
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by davec 11y ago
Ask and you shall receive. Hooktheory's Trends tool lets you see and hear all the chord progressions of the individual songs used here. As mentioned in the article, this analysis actually used our free API for accessing our chord progr
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Screenwriter John August Discusses Hooktheory's Book on Music Theory(hooktheory.com)
2 points by davec 14y ago|0 comments
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by davec 14y ago
Sorry. We used to have a way to show more than the top 10, but it seems to have been disappeared. I'll make sure that gets added back to make browsing easier.
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by davec 14y ago
You can see the more recent and most popular analyses at www.hooktheory.com/analysis
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by davec 14y ago
This is something we considered. Part of the problem is that sometimes when people analyze a section of a song, they include a pick up, etc. Other times the song doesn't have a strong resolution, so it's not clear where a progression begins
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I analyzed the chords to 1300 songs for patterns. Part 3 – Interactive Discovery(hooktheory.com)
195 points by davec 14y ago|47 comments
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Show HN: A daily challenge to improve your ear.(hooktheory.com)
1 points by davec 14y ago|0 comments
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A statistical study of inversions (slash chords) in popular music(hooktheory.com)
5 points by davec 14y ago|2 comments
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In Defense of Popular Music: Why Reports of its Death are Greatly Exaggerated(hooktheory.com)
5 points by davec 14y ago|0 comments
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by davec 14y ago
I disagree that a classically trained musician wouldn't be surprised at the predominance of IV -> I in popular music. Plagal cadences aren't nearly as common as V->I in the common practice period, and when it is used, the pull of IV
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by davec 14y ago
don't forget a lot of money and promotion. I think that's at least half
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by davec 14y ago
That's a good recommendation. I have a feeling it wouldn't change the results much for pop songs. I know Pandora has done some analysis like this for their database, but I thought it was limited to things like major or minor tonality, upbea
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I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found.(blog.hooktheory.com)
497 points by davec 14y ago|183 comments