[HN Gopher] Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer - scales, int...
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Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer - scales, intervals, backing
tracks
Author : krat0sprakhar
Score : 42 points
Date : 2022-02-07 20:42 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| potatoman22 wrote:
| Nice site! I see some features are paid -- do you have a sense of
| the market for an app like this?
|
| I'm developing a jam-companion app and I'm wondering the best way
| to do market research
| davee5 wrote:
| I love this.
|
| When I first started taking guitar seriously, after years of kid
| piano lessons, I really struggled to "find" notes. I mostly play
| both by ear and by visual shape, not by intervals or reading
| staves. So while taking jazz music theory courses I eventually
| sat down at a piano with a guitar in my lap, played the note on
| the keys to find the note on the fretboard, and then carefully
| drew out a scale map _exactly_ like the one you have here for
| every mode I wanted to learn. Knowing what "shape" a scale had
| from the root has been enormously useful while improvising at my
| (still) intermediate level. I have kept that piece of notebook
| paper I wrote out for over 20 years now. This is a much finer
| implementation!
|
| My only initial feedback is to put some of the logarithmic visual
| compression between frets into the visuals. This is a visual
| learning tool and visually the fretboard is not evenly spaced.
| Also, maybe dot markers?
| karlgrz wrote:
| This is cool, thanks for posting!
|
| I noticed a bug, not sure where to post feedback so posting here.
| When you change the vertical order the string labels don't change
| so it's unclear which way it is. The fret number markers do
| update when you change the left/right order, though, that one is
| more important.
| krat0sprakhar wrote:
| I've been using this tool for my daily improv practice since I
| learnt about this from Signals Music Studio's (Jake) YT video:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_YiT002Yy0
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| If you haven't seen other videos by Jake, I'd strongly recommend
| checking it out.
|
| One thing that's missing from this is chords in a key and related
| chords in a scale. For that I use guitarscale.org which is
| another amazing resource for learning music theory.
|
| Here's an example https://guitarscale.org/c-major.html
| pohl wrote:
| I like it. One possible bug (or maybe I misunderstand the UI): if
| the note that I pick at the top is C#, and then I select Aeolian
| in the Scale/Mode selector, shouldn't the label say "C# Minor"?
| Right now it just says "C Minor".
| nh2 wrote:
| The browser back-button doens't work on this page, it keeps you
| captive.
| sosborn wrote:
| It would be great if we could rotate the fingerboard - first fret
| on the right is counter-intuitive to me.
| xckzwar wrote:
| There are buttons on the bottom right to flip the fretboard
| horizontally (left/right arrows) and vertically (up/down
| arrows).
| rfreiberger wrote:
| I agree, I never seen the first fret displayed to the right.
| You can rotate the fretboard at the bottom right.
| ycan wrote:
| Default should be first fret to the left, as is used widely.
| This way it's quite confusing and it's not obvious where to
| flip it.
| coldcode wrote:
| Hmm I get hear no sound at all (Safari, Monterey). The fretboard
| should be switchable to left/right handed.
| dang wrote:
| For fun, I dug up some similar projects--not to take anything
| away from this one!
|
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| winterking wrote:
| This is helpful. Thank you!
| adamc wrote:
| Right now this is a right-handed fretboard visualizer. Not so
| great for lefties.
| pjgalbraith wrote:
| There's a button on the bottom right to flip the fretboard
| vertically and horizontally.
| ant512 wrote:
| Flipping the fretboard has weird effects.
|
| The E strings are ok (the notes are E, F, Gb, etc).
|
| But the other strings are broken (A string is A, C, Db; D
| string is D, Ab, A; B string is B, Bb, B, C); etc.
| pashariger wrote:
| Speaking as a guitarist, this is an excellent tool for exploring
| and learning different scales. I especially like the piano view -
| helps you see patterns on a piano side by side.
| loeg wrote:
| On bass, you can play a scale anywhere on the instrument using
| the same pattern. (Different patterns for major and minor
| scales, obviously, and the less common ones.) E.g. ascending
| major is 2 4 -> 1 2 4 -> 1 3 4; ascending minor is 1 3 4 -> 1 3
| 4 -> 1 3. You just have to find the root of the scale. On
| guitar, outside of the high B/e strings, which are weird
| because there are a different number of semitones between G and
| B, you can do the same thing.
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