Show HN: Umaro – An interactive music theory suite for guitarists
umaro.appThis has great UX, congrats!
There's quite a few jazz things that are missing. E.g., altered and bebop scales, 7#9 and 7b9 chords. Plus, for any given chord, there are a lot of voicings (drop 2, rootless, etc.).
This suite could be a really cool resource for new/intermediate jazz guitarists if you add some of the jazz stuff in. Any decent jazz guitar book could give you the most used scales and chord voicings.
Since the UX is already quite good, maybe if you open source it and if these things are easy to add, you could rely on the community to do so to some extent.
Tried the rhythm trainer : it feels weird, some rhythms (the cuban claves for example) seem wrong. Also the metronome doesn't sync with the rhythm, which makes it quite hard to differentiate offbeats from quarter note for example.
I like the UI though, and the omnipresence of the metronome is cool.
Noted. I'll take a look. The visual-audio syncing I do want to be pretty tight. I'll be adding to and fixing the examples there, right now only a handful at the moment. Good find.
Nice job. Very clean interface.
Consider adding a playback feature for the chord progressions as well as the musical modes, so people who are unfamiliar with certain ones can get a feel for how they sound.
Also any particular reason for naming it after the FF6 yeti? :)
That’s a great suggestion thank you. I agree that would be helpful, will work on getting that in when I get a chance.
Hah, and nothing too deep aside from listening to some OSTs recently, being winter, and overall just struck a chord.