naiquevin
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
The app has been my long term side project for more than 2 years now. I've been playing guitar for more than 20 years, mostly as a hobbyist. It started as a personal project and I've got immense value out of it in terms of speed building and consistency of practice. I believe other guitar players can find it useful too.
A few months back I got a burst of inspiration to pursue it more seriously. After my last contract ended, I've been primarily working on it. Eventually I may go back to contract work again but for now I'm excited to spend dedicated time on it! Do give it a try, or share it with guitar players in your circle.
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 has helped me realise why the app works for me, as well as my own mistakes that held back my progress for many years despite putting in decent efforts.
It was a much needed inspiration to continue working on it with a re-evaluated roadmap.
I recently wrote a blog post about it - https://www.captrice.io/blog/what-makes-captrice-work.html
I have implemented a POC sync mechanism via central server and I believe it’s simpler as it takes advantage of certain assumptions about the app. I’ve yet to productionize it so I am interested in knowing if my understanding is correct or if there are other existing solutions for this use case.
I have got the main functionality working and I've been using it myself in a crude way (using sqlite client directly for data entry etc.) for about a week. It was not meant to be a serious project to begin with - I just wanted to build something to evaluate Tauri for desktop apps. I am still not 100% convinced if such a tool is worth building, so the code hasn't been published anywhere. Do you care enough about "screenshots management and cleanup" to use something like this?
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...
This is based on what I remember (haven’t used gerrit in a while), so it may not be accurate.
I used gerrit in my previous job and miss using it. Would definitely prefer it over GitHub which is more popular (and convenient of course, can’t deny that).
Check this for bass guitar - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/metadata#tuning
Check the example here for piano - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/notes/#multiple-voices
\tuning G2 D2 A1 E1 B0
It's mentioned on the faqs page - https://www.captrice.io/user-guide/faqs.html. Missed updating the link. Will push a fix shortly.
It might even work for piano as well, there's an example here - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/notes/#multiple-voices
For that matter, I think the app should work for practicing any instrument that can be practiced with a metronome if you ignore tablature (which is only for reference anyway).
For now I want focus on guitar as that’s my primary use case but I’d love to extend it for other instruments in future.