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Comment · 25 days ago
Good to know! But did it originate as a 20% time project? Because this is not the first time I've heard this.
Comment · 3 months ago
100% agree. CAGED is extremely underrated. The starting premise is so simple, that most intermediate players go "yeah, yeah, sure...that's cool but it's not very insightful". It's when you start hanging all the basic (and probably more) scale/arpeggio patterns off it that it starts to become more and more valuable.
Comment · 4 months ago
perfect, thank you! Just fixed it.
Comment · 4 months ago
Another approach is having an "explore and test" or "Training Wheels" mode. Correct notes played by the user behave exactly as they do right now. But for a wrong note played by the user, instead of the round ending, you could just gives some audio-visual feedback that this is not the right answer but continue to expect the user to find the right answer. This way we can hunt and peck our way to the end of the round.

This creates a problem in that it's easy to muddle your way through without learning anything. To prevent this:

Once it gets to the end of the round in this mode, if the user had even 1 wrong note selected in this round, the game will then expect them to play it perfectly once again (like it does now).

This way you get both the hunt and peck exploration and the final "now that you've had your time to get your ears and fingers in order, play it correctly."

Comment · 4 months ago
same!
Comment · 4 months ago
This is amazing! A couple things:

1. Doesn't work on Firefox because of compatibility. (Web MIDI could not be enabled: DOMException: WebMIDI requires a site permission add-on to activate index-C82-1cwq.js:10:56869 doInitialize https://lend-me-your-ears.specr.net/assets/index-C82-1cwq.js... ) . Might be worth detecting browser and telling users straight up before they waste any time.

2. How did you come up with the melodies? Hand crafted? AI? Asking because I plan on building this for Gitori(www.gitori.com) at one point and my original idea was taking snippets from MIDI files of famous classical pieces/jazz solos

Also, TIL about the Simon game. Might buy this for my 6 year old :)

Comment · 6 months ago
hmm..let me look into this.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Whoops! I’ll try and recreate the issue. Thanks for the tips.
Comment · 10 months ago
https://www.gitori.com

Games for Guitarists.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you!

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