[HN Gopher] Show HN: Interactive Circle of Fifths
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       Show HN: Interactive Circle of Fifths
        
       Author : CosmosSeb
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2022-05-05 19:49 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | allears wrote:
       | Whenever I click on a tonic key, the inner wheel flies off the
       | screen and disappears. I can only get it back by closing the page
       | and re-opening.
        
       | unfolding wrote:
       | I am always happy to see so much music theory content here. I
       | have a bachelor of music for my undergrad, and working on my mscs
       | at the moment. There must be a lot of people like me who
       | discovered their love / interest in computation through music
       | theory.
        
       | jweissman wrote:
       | absolutely love this project!! will definitely use this as
       | compositional aid...
       | 
       | a few thoughts:
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       | - it would be nice to go "the other direction" here too -- from a
       | set of chords, tell me the possible ambient key environments
       | 
       | - the only thing ux wise i can pick at is the squiggly underline
       | 
       | - support for modulation would be amazing (a basic query there
       | might be just "find any/all common chords between two selected
       | key environments")
        
       | tejohnso wrote:
       | Pretty good as a visual and auditory reference. But it could use
       | a bit more detail on the why / how. For example, it shows "C
       | major scale" with notes CDEFGAB. But then when you click the Cmaj
       | button it only plays CGE. Why only three notes? A chord can have
       | more than three. Why those specific ones? Why is it that notes
       | CDEFGAB make up the C major scale?
       | 
       | I guess it gets complicated, and that's why there are so many
       | links to external sites for more information.
        
         | andybak wrote:
         | I'm not sure it's meant to teach music theory. As you observe,
         | that would get complicated.
         | 
         | > But then when you click the Cmaj button it only plays CGE.
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         | Because those are the notes in Cmaj
         | 
         | > Why only three notes? A chord can have more than three.
         | 
         | Yes but not Cmaj.
         | 
         | I don't know if you're asking these questions yourself or
         | putting yourself in the place of someone who is learning theory
         | - but it seems a strange criticism of a single page interactive
         | website that it fails to explain the vast amount of arbitrary
         | information embedded in western standard practice.
        
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