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I'm a self-taught player and only in the last five years or so have I managed to punch through the fog and begin to understand what I'm doing. This…",{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},"17273295","king_magic","This is fantastic. I am eternally lazy about mapping out scales. This makes my guitar life easier. Great job!",{"value":64,"source":53,"evidence":65},"Guitar players learning scales and music theory",[66,70],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"17273005","mmartinson","Love this. As someone who has been playing casually for years with a few attempts to use scales and music theory to up my base understanding, this is something I could see myself…",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},[72,79],{"value":73,"source":74,"evidence":75},"JavaScript","maker",[76],{"id":77,"by":11,"text":78},"17278723","1. Bottom colored dots are connected to shape colors, nothing else. 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One thing about the UX of it - because you haven't gotten enough…",{"value":103,"source":93,"evidence":104},"Good use of SVG",[105,109],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"17272630","slig","+1 for using SVG. It looks awesome. Are you using some SVG library or making it \"by hand\"?",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"17273138","blueside","Nice work, love SVG use. Can this be flipped for left handers?",[114,133,145,152],{"value":115,"source":93,"evidence":116},"Information dense and hard to read or understand without theory knowledge",[117,121,125,129],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"17274689","markvdb","Professional guitar teacher here. I had to look for a few minutes myself before this started making some sense. I'm sorry to say that I can't feed to this to my students as it…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"17274188","sbilstein","It's beautiful but as a fairly experienced musician, I think it's a bit information dense with all the symbols and letters. The aesthetics are great but I'd love maybe some…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"17274741","code_duck","I'm quite familiar with the music theory behind all of the scales, having played instruments for over 30 years, but I'm not finding the information display or interface to be…",{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"17273113","tvanantwerp","As someone who stopped trying to learn guitar around middle school, I'm totally lost. Must make more sense if you're well practiced, I suppose.",{"value":134,"source":93,"evidence":135},"Lacks labels and explanations for toggles, colors and numbers",[136,137,141],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"17273040","sonar_un","This looks fantastic. Though some labels would be nice. It's difficult to find out what all the colors and the numbers mean. Adding an audio library would be a nice addition.",{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"17275012","louhike","I do not know if the explanation is on the website but I didn't find it. I had difficulties to understand the website even though I have basic understanding of music theory.…",{"value":146,"source":93,"evidence":147},"Note naming errors in some keys such as C# and D# major",[148],{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"17274883","pdpi","I have one bit of constructive criticism for you. Every single Major\u002FMinor scale should have exactly one each of ABCDEFG, so that written music makes sense — each line\u002Fspace…",{"value":153,"source":93,"evidence":154},"Mobile Safari buttons do not update the view",[155,159],{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"17273279","Exuma","The last row of buttons don't work on mobile (they don't update the view)",{"id":160,"by":157,"text":161},"17276713","iOS\u002Fsafari",[163,179,190,198,203],{"value":164,"source":93,"evidence":165},"Audio or note sounds",[166,170,174,178],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"17273615","feconroses","Very useful! If you could also add note sounds, that would be amazing!",{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"17272981","chestervonwinch","very cool! did you consider adding note sounds? edit: also, what does the 'b' prefix signify? I'm not familiar with it.",{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"17273223","djangoEm","Nice work. I'm really impressed. I think with addition of an audio lib, it'll be perfect.",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},{"value":180,"source":93,"evidence":181},"Alternate tunings",[182,186],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"17273322","cnasc","Pretty cool! I made something like this a few years ago, but nowhere near as sophisticated. One suggestion: as of late I've been playing guitar in perfect 4ths tuning, and it…",{"id":187,"by":188,"text":189},"17272798","ad1ttya","This looks amazing! Just started studying intervallic improvisation and this will help alot! do you have any plans to add support for alternate tunings or let the user to modify…",{"value":191,"source":93,"evidence":192},"Left-handed mode",[193,197],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"17274120","bajsreddit","I would love a left handed one. It's very difficult for me to use otherwise.",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},{"value":199,"source":93,"evidence":200},"Help or explanation for the interface",[201,202],{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},{"value":204,"source":74,"evidence":205},"Print support",[206],{"id":207,"by":11,"text":208},"17273945","Thanks for the feedback. I'll add help files and explain scaler\u002Fpentanizer differences. 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