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  • I just spent 30 minutes playing with this. It's incredible, well done to the author!
    by orliesaurus
  • Holy smokes!!! It has just occurred to me that anyone who can type on a keyboard knows how to play an instrument. Your keyboard is the instrument.

    With solo mode, I asked ChatGPT to translate the songs to keyboard notes, and I was just typing the notes as if I was doing a typing test, and I was playing songs. lol the easiest "sight-reading" I've ever done.

    Is this the every persons instrument?

    Here is Happy Birthday in solo mode:

    E E T E I U E E T E P I E E B X I U T C C X I P I

    Crazy unlock!

    by Meleagris
  • Very nice. A selfish suggestion is to add ukulele.
    by derbOac
  • Sounds great! As a guitar player: I would expect the fretboard to be mirrored horizontally, so that the low strings are at the bottom, like it is the case in regular tablature. Messes with my brain that way :)
    by Svennor
  • This is fantastic, well done and thanks for sharing! Any chance of adding C Standard to the tuning list?
    by karlgrz
  • Very well done. Looks and sounds great.

    A couple of UX thoughts I had while using it:

    1. Since the chords are all within a specific key, have you considered using the numbers 1 through 7 to play the respective chords? That way playing a 1-4-5 or a 2-5-1 would be very intuitive?

    2. Have you considered using modifier keys (shift, ctrl, alt) to control whether a chord is strummed down versus up (e.g. pressing A would be down, but Shift+A would be up) or major/minor (A would be major, Alt+A would be minor)? I guess Ctrl could be a 7th chord modifier too.

    Just some thoughts. Great tool!

    by pseudosavant
  • This is awesome. I have no music knowledge. and my dad recently learning flute and was asking me to build something like this for him to practice. You gave me an inspiration and I built this. I think what I built is absolute garbage but its only decently good because of what you did. here it is. https://veeragoni.github.io/flutewizard/

    I hope you don't take it positively and I am hoping community contributes to the flute sounds and make it better and right.

    by earth2mars
  • Very cool, the "arp" function was a little buggy for me, it either wont let me activate it before strumming a chord, or it will lock itself to "on" until I refresh the page.
    by ceroxylon

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