MikeCullimore / guitar-technique

Guitar technique

Tools to help improve guitar-playing technique and understanding of music theory.

todo

• Explain how to setup, install, run.
• Add example screenshot (can't embed video in markdown).

Project goals

• Make technical exercises more fun: turn them into a game.
• Learn to navigate the neck: where are notes? Where are chords?
• Learn chord shapes.
• Learn scales.
• Reduce time to change chords.
• Experiment with web APIs (e.g. web audio).
• Play with data visualisation and analysis.
• Play with interesting tools: Rust, TypeScript, Node/Deno, React, Express, Redux, MongoDB, Go, WebAssembly?

Setup

To generate music scores you will need to install GNU Lilypond.

Activating the virtual environment

Linux: at bash prompt, from root directory:

source venv/bin/activate

Installing dependencies

(After activating the virtual environment)

pip install -r requirements.txt

Useful links

• Spectro: real-time FFT visualisation of audio (from file or microphone).
• fft-js
• gensound

Identify chords in audio recordings

• Chord detector (C++)
• Capo: Mac app for transcription.