by adityaathalye on 3/29/25, 3:27 AM with 136 comments
by naiquevin on 4/1/25, 1:52 AM
I had also posted on the "What are you working on?" thread yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531684.
Happy to answer any questions.
by webprofusion on 4/1/25, 3:38 AM
For real "lessons" you'd probably need to start at chord progressions, go into scales and how the chords relate back to those, then move to these types of soloing technique lessons.
AlphaTab is the star here https://github.com/CoderLine/alphaTab - it's been maintained tirelessly for years by Daniel Kuschny.
I've started to build this type of lessons sitea few times in the past and never really got it together enough to release anything. I've done scale/chord/arpeggio tools: https://github.com/webprofusion/scalex
by hexie on 4/1/25, 2:23 AM
Far fewer features than your app, but just having a tool to help nail down the muscle memory of pre-built progressions has been massively helpful for me as a banjo-player-in-training.
Your exercise builder is awesome and something I was planning on building into my site, might take some inspo!
by i_am_a_squirrel on 4/1/25, 12:40 AM
For anyone else confused, it doesn't listen to you play, it just logs your use of the metronome and provides tabs.
IMO the app would be cooler if it was simply the metronome app on a page. And if you want to track which song you are working on, then just add the ability to label a session. Could have a different mode for people who want it over videos, but usually when I'm practicing, I know the tab and am not watching a video while I practice.
by 6stringmerc on 4/1/25, 1:37 AM
The guitar is a difficult instrument to learn, especially in the beginning phases. After 30 years it’s a conversation I have frequently - people try and give up a lot. If this can help some folks stick with it and become better understanding and practiced with their instrument, I hope that happens again and again and again. Every generation needs guitarists, as it’s the instrument of expressive rebellion the world round.
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by uglycoyote on 4/1/25, 5:42 AM
Firstly, the tab for that exercise is long enough to need a scroll bar, and so I don't understand how one is supposed to play along with that tab to a metronome... am I expected to operate the scroll bar every couple of measures while still staying in time with the metronome? So I would suggest either auto-scroll, or better yet just find a way to get all 12 measures of the exercise to fit on the screen at the same time. I have a big enough monitor that it would fit.
Secondly, although you have the link to the embedded video player, I wouldn't be able to keep the intended sound of the exercise in my head long enough that I would feel confident I was playing the exercise right later. The app really feels like it needs a synthesized guitar sound that would play the notes of the exercise, so that I could play it along with the synthesized version and know whether I was hitting the right note. It would be OK if it sounded cheesy -- that would be better than nothing, and then once I was confident that I had the correct sequence down, I would disable the synthetic sound.
by a_c on 4/1/25, 9:27 AM
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by NullHypothesist on 4/1/25, 12:27 AM
by osigurdson on 4/1/25, 5:47 AM
- App listens to your playing
- Identifies your weaknesses
- Creates a curated lesson plan
- App actively listens as you progress through the plan and adjusts
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