Show HN: I made a tool for learning scales, chords, and how to combine them(projects.alesh.com)
11 pointsby aleshh6 hours ago4 comments
  • mike741an hour ago
    i love this idea but i wish there was a simple way to play the sounds of whatever is currently selected. perhaps a play button near the top of the page or a spacebar hotkey
  • rdataguy4 hours ago
    And you should add that it also teaches modes, which are counterintuitive and with dumb hard-to-remember names. Cool app, good job!
    • aleshh4 hours ago
      Yeah! I came across a book that was literally just fingering charts for all these scales in all the keys and I was like, wait a second, this is dumb...
  • MattRix4 hours ago
    It’s a cool idea, but is there no way to hear the actual notes?
    • aleshh4 hours ago
      I've thought about adding something that would vamp certain chords, say. But sounds like you mean something different... like, play the pitches in a scale?

      I very much would like some way to preview what the sound and feel of certain combinations of chords and scales/tones is, but I haven't quite figured out how it might work.

    • aleshh3 hours ago
      Ok, I took a stab at this!

      - All the notes on fingering charts can be clicked and they play a sound

      - Chords get a little playback button

      - Compose mode gets its own playback controls

      The sound is very basic, I'll see if I can fix that next.

  • altmanaltman3 hours ago
    This is maybe good as a reference but its much better to just understand the basic shapes and you can play any scale from memory based on where you start the pattern on the fretboard. This seems a bit too intimidating compared to the tab pdf i used over a decade ago
    • aleshh3 hours ago
      Agree, this is very much about where I am and not for beginners. But I think it helps learn the one “big pattern” when you see where the different scale degrees fit into it in each mode?