Show HN: I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition

[udit99]

I’ve spent a year building a theory learning path that starts from scratch and goes all the way up to topics like Secondary Dominants and Borrowed Chords. It uses a combination of games, interactive lessons and spaced repetition to help you understand and remember concepts. Not just learn something new and forget it in a few days.

I’m trying to figure out: 1. Is the progression logical? 2. What am I missing that you’d like to see in there? 3. Where does it get confusing and could use more clarification?

[vunderba]

Nice job. Some Feedback:

The AI‑generated images for the Circle of Fifths don’t make a lot of sense - why are there blurry Japanese kana/kanji on them?

Clicking on the “Guitar” dropdown in the navbar doesn’t do anything. The dev console shows this error:

  TypeError: Cannot read properties of null ('email')

Personally, I'd recommend doing some more manual testing before deployment. Remember to test all the paths twice (logged in and logged out).

[udit99]

Whoops! I’ll try and recreate the issue. Thanks for the tips.

[mike_strings872]

The relationship between chords matters more than memorizing individual chords. Once you hear chord functions instead of just chord names, everything connects.

[mike_strings872]

Music theory doesn't have to be complicated. Start with understanding why I-IV-V works, then build from there. You can get surprisingly far with just that foundation.

[jmagland]

The air particle visualization is really cool! However, I don't hear anything. I'm on chrome browser in linux. It wasn't clear how to get that to work. Thx

[udit99]

hmm...I just tried it on Chrome on my Macbook and it worked for me. Does the sound on this game work for you? https://www.gitori.com/FBG-101

(Give it a 2-3 seconds to load the sounds and it should autoplay a note in the background)

[jmagland]

Yes the FBG-101 works after a few seconds. However in the original link it still doesn't work... I tried chrome and firefox. But here's a clue, when I pluck the guitar string several times, I sometimes here a little short scratch/static sound.

[udit99]

hmm..let me look into this.