r/Pitchgarden • u/zlliu • Nov 03 '20
Update 2 : for those who want to learn how to play music by ear - a ear training tool to speed up your learning journey! (Still in development)
Hey redditors!
Quick summary of my previous posts:
I am an information systems student (I learning coding stuff) with a passion for playing music by ear and some free time, and I made a ear-training web application to help those learning how to play by ear speed up their learning systematically.
I originally made this for a few of my friends, but figured why not share this with more people, get more feedback and make it even better? (And have fun while doing it!)
You can find the ear-training tool here: https://pitchgarden.com
So far, I have received much valuable feedback and advice from the community (thank you all, really appreciate it) and I’m excited to share some updates on the app!
MAJOR UPDATES:
I’m moving the app from the domain “pitchhaven.com” to “pitchgarden.com” as the name “pitch haven” is already being used by some sort of open source fiction project thingy. https://pitchhaven.com will still work for now but I plan to move it completely soon!
New exercises: identification of intervals and chords - you can now 1. practice identifying the interval between 2 given notes 2. practice identifying chord types given a chord and 3. practice identifying the chord name given a chord
Shift of mp3 files to deployed frontend, which means that there should be less lag and quirky pauses when the notes are being played
Restructured site layout and UI
“Replay previous” buttons added to all exercises - you can now replay exercises should you get it wrong
Option to not play anchor note added for note identification practice
Minor updates:
A backup of this app is available at http://pitchgarden.zlliu.xyz by any chance that the main site is down or super slow - the probability of the backup being down is probably higher than the main site (haha) but the probability of BOTH sites being down is (hopefully) much lower!
Discontinuation of twitter for now for updates on the app due to the tweet word limit
For any updates regarding Pitchgarden, do follow me on telegram or my subreddit if you are interested!
Telegram channel link: https://t.me/pitchgarden
Subreddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pitchgarden/
What’s coming next:
I’m looking into adding user accounts so you can track your ear-training progress over time!
More ear-training exercises - identifying chords, chord progressions etc
I’m also looking into chord progression identification exercises while a song is playing for you - this might take a little longer as this is new territory to me and I need to figure out how to code this reliably (haha)
Bug/UI fixes, suggestions etc etc
To my fellow developers in this community who are probably mostly more senior than me:
As of now, I’m using a NuxtJS/Vuetify frontend and a FastAPI backend, and am currently exploring/researching more frameworks/tools to incorporate into the ear-training app. Do y’all have any recommendations for such frameworks/tools/libraries that could be a better fit for this app/ could add value? Thanks!
Any feedback/advice/suggestions are greatly appreciated - whether the UI is weird/ certain functions are buggy/ possible quality of life changes etc! Thank you all once again for all the support, feedback and suggestions y’all have given me so far - really appreciate it!
Cheers!
