Chord Progressions
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music chord progression generator
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
3 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 20 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score -0.47.
Docs: 0 for, 10 againstIdea: 2 for, 7 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive for someone who doesn't play an instrument
From 1 comment
Wow, great job on this for being someone who dosn't play an instrument. Seriously. Sure, there are some kinda not exactly right things, but sheesh, maybe you should make your own…
brooklyn_ashey on HN
Useful data for others, and the rhythatom tie-in is fun
From 2 comments
If you want to try these chord progressions in your browser, check out: http://wildsparx.com/rhythatom/ Coincidentally I just finished it. Source is here:…
asher on HNRhytmatom is really cool! If I knew about it a month ago, I'd probably have used your source code instead of rewriting everything myself. I like that I can choose the number of…
peterburkimsher on HN
Objections
Music theory errors about enharmonic notes and E#
From 3 comments
Mostly good info in there, but I see a few problems: > There is also no E#. It just doesn't exist. Get used to it. Those are the 12 notes. Technically not true. There is an E#,…
vinylkey on HNI would invite the OP to read a basic book on music theory, any good undergrad-level text should do, before stating some of the "facts" he is making, which are just untrue. For…
hellofunk on HNIt goes along with this line... "For some reason I don't totally understand, some have 2 names (e.g. C#=Db, D#=Eb, F#=Gb, A#=Bb)." It would probably blow the authors mind to know…
dizzystar on HN
Progressions are redundant and incomplete, missing secondary chords
From 1 comment
This is nice as a diary of some hacking, but much of the musical commentary is misleading. Basically the author has enumerated all the unique ways of selecting the numbers 1..7…
fenomas on HN
Parsons code ignores that chord moves are not simply up or down
From 1 comment
In the Parsons Code section, if I'm reading correctly, the chords are conceived along an up-down axis. However chords do not really have that relation. Going from 1maj to 5maj…
asher on HN
Requests
Port the AppleScript code to a more popular language
From 1 comment
If you want me to port the code to a more popular programming language, please tell me which one. Rust? JavaScript? C#? ;-)
peterburkimsher on HN
Fix accidentals in the notes
From 1 comment
Good catch. Will fix the accidentals.
asher on HN
Questions
How to choose the correct octave for chords
From 1 comment
You're actually using the data! That's really encouraging. It's probably a bug in my script. How do I know which octave to choose? If you can explain it to me using the Parsons…
peterburkimsher on HN
Why there are 30 keys
From 1 comment
“There are 30 keys” You could make the case that there are 12 keys, or some multiple of 12 keys, or near-infinite keys. But 30? Pretty random!
aczerepinski on HN
Alternatives named
Rhythatom chord progression player
From 1 comment
If you want to try these chord progressions in your browser, check out: http://wildsparx.com/rhythatom/ Coincidentally I just finished it. Source is here:…
asher on HN
Jake Albaugh's arpeggiator on CodePen
From 1 comment
Rhytmatom is really cool! If I knew about it a month ago, I'd probably have used your source code instead of rewriting everything myself. I like that I can choose the number of…
peterburkimsher on HN