machak

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by machak 8y ago
I was thinking about tooltips but those are tricky to implement for mobile devices (although I haven't spend much time making it usable for small screens/devices)
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by machak 8y ago
R marks "relative" major/minor, for example: A minor pentatonic is relative to C major pentatonic (contains same notes/shapes, just root note is different). I can/could change defaults, but, all your presets should
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by machak 8y ago
1. Bottom colored dots are connected to shape colors, nothing else. Those shapes are often (in guitar literature) referenced by number, 1 to 5 (e.g. pentatonic shape 1), I decided to use colors 2. Pentanizer is adding interval colors. It sp
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by machak 8y ago
Hi, yes, that's a known issue. I added flat/sharp button as an option, but, I think that makes things even worse. I am working on a fix for this...
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by machak 8y ago
could you be any more constructive, I mean, which parts are confusing / none intuitive?
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by machak 8y ago
It can be quite intimidating at first I guess. It makes (starts to make) sense once you turn off some shapes and start connecting them together one by one. I am not sure if you had a look at the "pentanizer" parts, but that one i
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by machak 8y ago
Give it a shot, it's worth it. I also played for years before I started looking into theory part, but I wish I started way earlier.
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by machak 8y ago
I'll add more scales in the future, for time being you could check https://grunfy.com/modenizer.html It has different coloring, but you can use 1-5 shapes to "dissect" it
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by machak 8y ago
This may help: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar_Theory/comments/8c1s9i/penta... There is a youtube link video link included which explains the concept.
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by machak 8y ago
I hope this might help (I am not very good at explaining it): https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/17426/naming-scale...
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by machak 8y ago
unfortunately, not at the moment. I think with some code "flipping" it would be easy to support. I;ll look into it.
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by machak 8y ago
sorry about that, just downloaded firefox on android and for me it does render the fretboard but it only takes like 1/3 of the screen. Will look into it asap.
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by machak 8y ago
to be honest, I targeted desktop audience, and running linux (and android) myself, I am bit limited in this (testing) area. I might be getting an iOSmac device soon so that might help. What browser/OS are you using?
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by machak 8y ago
added to my .plan (stay tuned;-)..no pun intended)
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by machak 8y ago
I'll introduce alternate tuning, although it might take few months as I am busy with some other improvements (printing being one of them)
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by machak 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add help files and explain scaler/pentanizer differences. Scaler is "traditional" way of learning scales, but I think pentanizer makes more sense...it just needs to be explained bit more. M
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by machak 8y ago
I am using http://svgjs.com/ It's very lightweight but doesn't have much features though.
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Show HN: Interactive guitar scales diagrams(grunfy.com)
277 points by machak 8y ago|95 comments