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by naiquevin 1mo ago
I'm working on my guitar practice app, Captrice[1]. Last week, I added an interactive metronome tutorial[2] in the app to help onboard beginners (quite a challenge). This week I'm planning to implement the long pending "devic
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by naiquevin 3mo ago
I’m working on my guitar practice app, Captrice https://www.captrice.io after a brief gap. The last few months I’ve been reading a lot about neuroscience behind learning and practicing music and I’m fascinated by the subject. It
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by naiquevin 1y ago
I’m also interested in this. I have a similar use case, to implement “cross device sync” functionality for a local-only webapp. I tried out automerge but it felt like it’s meant for syncing data when multiple users collaborate, and not data
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Yeah, a generic tool could be useful. Thanks for replying. It gave me some ideas!
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by naiquevin 1y ago
I've been building a desktop app on the side that addresses the problem of screenshots getting accumulated on disk over a period of time. It provides an alternate workflow for capturing screenshots, where the app let's the user se
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Same here. I use checklists heavily for my projects. I write them in (emacs) org mode in a way that I can “execute” them repeatedly. Have written about it: https://www.naiquev.in/recurring-checklists-using-org-mode-i...
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Gerrit uses a “Change-Id” trailer with a unique value. When you “fix up” a commit, the commit SHA changes but the change id remains the same. That’s how it can identify different commits with the same change id as patchsets of the same chan
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Agree about recording and listening to it. I also do it sometimes. My concern about implementing the record/playback functionality is that it may introduce a bunch of complexity considering it's a web app (permissions to record mi
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by naiquevin 1y ago
I am going through the alphatex docs in more detail and looks like other stringed instruments and even piano are already supported. Check this for bass guitar - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/metadata#tuning C
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Looks like it's already supported in Alphatex - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/metadata#tuning . You will need to specify the following metadata in the tab editor \tuning G2 D2 A1 E1 B0
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by naiquevin 1y ago
If any one's looking for the answer to why it's not recommended to edit library imports - when you import collections from the library, you can receive updates whenever the collection author publishes a new version. These updates
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by naiquevin 1y ago
I am going through the alphatex documentation in more detail and chances are that any stringed instrument could already be supported. Checkout the tuning section - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/metadata#tuning
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Thanks for reporting. I’ll check this.
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by naiquevin 1y ago
I haven’t tried using it for bass guitar but I believe it should just work? I assume you want tabs for bass guitar. Alphatab, the tablature editor supports bass guitar and other stringed instruments too. I guess it even supports notation
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Yes, music notation is configured to be hidden as I felt it would take up extra space. But recently I myself felt the need for it when editing tabs that had triplets. Beams are not visible in tabs. Planning to add a button soon to toggle no
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by naiquevin 1y ago
> when I practice for more than an hour every day > this creates horrible calluses on my fingers I think both are good problems to have :-). Consistently practicing for more than an hour every day is quite difficult unless you are pro
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by naiquevin 1y ago
No, it doesn't play the tabs. The primary use case to help with practicing something you've already learnt. Import from Guitar Pro sounds like a good idea and the format doesn't seem to be proprietary based on a quick google
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Captrice works in a browser on an android phone. But honestly, it's designed to be used on a desktop/laptop with a keyboard as there are some handy keybindings/shortcuts for easily controlling the metronome while playing the
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by naiquevin 1y ago
> Firstly, the tab for that exercise is long enough to need a scroll bar, and so I don't understand how one is supposed to play along with that tab to a metronome. I agree, this app is not great for learning a piece of music but it
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Captrice allows you to export an exercise collection. You get a json file that can be shared with others or copied to another device where it can be imported back into the app. > AlphaTab is the star here Absolutely! High quality stuff.
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by naiquevin 1y ago
This is so cool. Loved the UI, simple and to the point.
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by naiquevin 1y ago
I mean “deliberate” to be the adjective for “practice” and not “app”. Thanks for the suggestion though. Definitely something to think about. I personally hate “opinionated” too.
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Total noob as in yet to buy your first guitar? I’d highly recommend taking offline lessons from a local guitar teacher, at least for a few months. Some things are difficult to unlearn and relearn later on. This app can be used to practice t
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Thanks for the kind words. > people try and give up a lot. If this can help some folks stick with it and become better understanding and practiced with their instrument, I hope that happens again and again and again This resonates so mu
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Thanks! Much credit goes to the Bulma[1] css framework, I guess. I am mostly a backend dev. I've just used bulma for the most part and tried to avoid anything fancy. [1]: https://bulma.io/
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I know the UI is not as intuitive as I'd like it to be for first time users. Multiple early users have told me that they expected it to either listen to them play or play back some audio. I am planning to recor
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by naiquevin 1y ago
Hello! I am the one behind this app. A friend who thinks I am not promoting it enough submitted it to HN (not complaining at all, thanks Aditya!). I had also posted on the "What are you working on?" thread yesterday - https:&#x2F
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by naiquevin 1y ago
I am working on a guitar practice app[1]. It's a metronome that captures speed and duration as you practice. This data can then be visualized. It's designed to be used on a desktop/laptop as there are keyboard shortcuts for e
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by naiquevin 2y ago
I've implemented a CLI tool[1] that tries to address similar problems with SQL as mentioned in the article: testing, business logic and re-usability. The approach is different though - you write SQL and pgTAP tests using jinja template
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by naiquevin 2y ago
Looks really good. I've felt the need for such an app on more than one occasions. But I'll have to wait for the iOS version I guess (based on the other comment). Aside: Following your github link led me to discover another one of

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