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You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there are free chord tools and tuners. No signup or download.\n\n1 minute video demo: https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002FDtcluMLdSgs\n\nI would love feedback on how the strumming feels and sounds.",{"problem":54,"audience":63,"pricing":76,"motivation":80,"time_to_build":84,"stack":85,"openness":86,"stage":87,"team_size":88},{"value":55,"source":56,"evidence":57},"Lets people play and practice guitar chords in a browser without a physical guitar","maker",[58,60],{"id":59},"post",{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"50078449","Thanks! Both good ideas, noted. I wanted to play some chords when Im away from my guitar and none of the browser online guitars I found were at the level I was looking for. The…",{"value":64,"source":65,"evidence":66},"Guitar players and beginners, including people away from their instrument","inferred",[67,68,72],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"50082531","animalrap","I've been playing guitar for 20 years and this is incredible. Impressed by the feat of getting all this in browser, and the quality as a learning tool. My dad had a stroke years…",{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"50088472","blouis","Wow, amazing work! And so complete in a way, you open each section and just gets blown away, like the songs with all those album covers and all. Love that there's stuff like…",{"value":77,"source":56,"evidence":78},"Free",[79],{"id":59},{"value":81,"source":56,"evidence":82},"Wanted to play chords when away from a guitar; existing browser guitars were not good enough",[83],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},null,[],"free","launched","unknown",{"praise":90,"objections":130,"requests":168,"questions":203,"alternatives":218},[91,107,122],{"value":92,"source":93,"evidence":94},"Sounds and feels good; strumming feels like a real guitar","commenter",[95,99,103],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"50078000","jrflo","Holy shit, this is incredible. As a guitar player this actually feels like playing a guitar. So cool. Only suggestion I would have would be to make all 6 strings strummable…",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"50088433","superdetectiveg","Wow, I liked it a lot. It's really smooth and the sound is perfect!",{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"50083995","neronuser","Feels really good!",{"value":108,"source":93,"evidence":109},"Well-designed, intuitive UI",[110,114,118],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"50081607","tibbon","That's one of the best guitar UIs I've seen on a computer.",{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"50080162","slinkydink","I've been playing for years, and so happy to see an app so intuitive. The only thing is that I use several non standard tunings none of them are found in the drop down..... I was…",{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"50079117","jtumbot","Very nicely done, at first I thought it was gimmicky but it's actually playable",{"value":123,"source":93,"evidence":124},"Useful as a learning tool",[125,129],{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"50080306","manlymuppet","I love that this is a learning tool too.",{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},[131,150,157],{"value":132,"source":93,"evidence":133},"Guitar orientation (player view left-handed, fretboard backwards) is confusing",[134,138,142,146],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"50083355","xdertz","Defaulting what is called \"player view\" on this page is a very odd choice. All learning material is displayed with the low string at the bottom (or \"tab view\" on the page). All…",{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"50078761","bibimsz","\" matches what a right handed player sees looking down at their own guitar: low E on top, neck on the left\" no, it's wrong",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"50085628","automaciej","Did you use a mirror? Or is this for left handed guitars? It's because a guitar never looks like that, not a regular right-handed guitar. When you play a guitar, you see the side…",{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"50096821","kazinator","The transform between player's view and audience's view cannot be a mirror image flip; 3D objects such as guitars don't do that. I.e. the player view is a left-handed guitar…",{"value":151,"source":93,"evidence":152},"Chord names and keys do not match keyboard layout well",[153],{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"50079377","MartijnBraam","The chord names not matching the keys on my keyboard are throwing me off a lot on this, but that's difficult to get anything other than major chords. Maybe it would be playable…",{"value":158,"source":93,"evidence":159},"Let ring toggle and arp mode have bugs",[160,164],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"50078335","ssteeper","It's great! As far as I can tell, the toggle for Let ring is not working: when i disable it, notes still ring out after letting go of the key (in solo mode on electric guitar…",{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"50081497","ceroxylon","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.",[169,177,188,196],{"value":170,"source":93,"evidence":171},"Custom and standard tunings such as C standard",[172,173],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"50081365","karlgrz","This is fantastic, well done and thanks for sharing! Any chance of adding C Standard to the tuning list?",{"value":178,"source":93,"evidence":179},"Ukulele or three-string version",[180,184],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"50081402","derbOac","Very nice. A selfish suggestion is to add ukulele.",{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"50101570","elmimmo","Any chance for a three-string guitar version like Loog Guitars [1]? ``` [1]: https:\u002F\u002Floogguitars.com\u002Fcollections\u002Fshop-loog-kids-guitars ```",{"value":189,"source":93,"evidence":190},"Multi-touch and independent strumming of all six strings",[191,195],{"id":192,"by":193,"text":194},"50083213","sensecall","Amazing work! One of those things I wish I’d thought of. I’d love support for multi touch on tablet. Currently zooms out but I expected it to pick multiple strings.",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},{"value":197,"source":93,"evidence":198},"Fretboard finger position display",[199],{"id":200,"by":201,"text":202},"50086870","hn_submit","This is great. It also shows how complex it is to play a guitar. I think it would take me ages of practice to play even a simple song. 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Those are great ideas. I'm already working on a better keyboard layout so will add this to list.",{"id":242,"text":243},"50078596","Thanks, great input! Letting the shared strings ring through chord changes makes a lot of sense and I will look at it. Song techniques like palm muting are on the list too. 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