I was thinking the same. The author makes a great point when it comes to a portfolio, but most of the work I do is for corporate clients for example. They value efficiency and ease of use (I.e. predictability) of a ui/ux solution over any creative outlet. I don't think I should start doing more of that.. I'll be out of a job pretty fast

I've relied on Tonal heavily to build stringscales.com - it was a very pleasant experience. Much is already present, and extending the lib with more scales and functionality was easy as well. Definitely recommend

Oh nice, that looks really cool! How did you get the fretboard to sync up with those songs? Ai or some manual encoding work somehow?

Well done!

Very cool! I like the non standard fretting as well. Neat feature

Thanks a lot for sharing!

Yeah, I love the tuning option myself!

I totally agree, in fact feature number one is already planned. It'll probably be in the form of a chord schema generator and player that also shows you which scales and roots/thirds... you can use in a given chord.

For 2, it's possible to flip the fretboard to a lefty guitar. Is that what you are looking for? You can find the option under settings. Or do you mean flipping it vertically?

Vertically as well as 90 degrees.

https://www.google.com/search?output=search&q=Chords

See how most images are showing chords. The fret is laid out vertically. I've been using those and can thereby read that more naturally.

Oh right! I see what you mean. Got it, awesomeme idea: Chord charts like these are as of now a planned feature. Something to look out for in the future.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Definitely go for it! And let me know how I can help you to make it a little bit less overwhelming

thanks!

Thank you!

This might be a biased opinion, because it's how I do it and it works for me (ymmv), but I think starting with for example the major scale patterns in 3NPS is a great foundation. Once you know this by heart, and especially have learned the relative degrees of all the frets in the pattern, it becomes easier to learn a different scale formula relative to this major scale.

For example, when learning the myxolidian mode, I might go: "oh, but that's just the major scale with a lowered 7th degree!" And then I can apply that pattern easily on the fretboard.

Now, as for why this tool is useful (to me at least): it's really quick to visualise a position in a certain scale in a certain key, and show the note degrees (it's the "roman notation" setting). Especially for really exotic scales that have a lot of differences to the major scale (e.g. messiaen's modes), it is very useful to have a visual aid in front of me while playing.

thanks! I found that even just lazily continually looking and playing the scales and the positions while building the tool actually also really helped with learning more myself :)