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by cranjice 3192 days ago
Yeah, sorry, I took one look at this keyboard layout and thought to myself "ok this is a toy"

I'd love to see an application that could capture audio from an instrument and act as a real-time theory aid/teacher. For example:

  * the note you are playing is this
  * the notes you've just played in sequence belong to these scales. here are possibilities for next notes
  * try these chords
  * the chord you've just played is comprised of these notes
  * the next chord in the scale could be this
  * popular songs with these chords or in this scale are
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You need context for that. Clearly something like this isn't for getting your head around avantgarde music.

I say the more tools the better. People will outgrow their instrument fairly quickly if it's too limiting and then just move on to something new.

Supposedly something like chordify does this relatively well...