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Re:Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory expl... by zen3d on Friday September 14, 2018 @01:46PM (#17989245)
Ditto for "Open D minor (DADFAD)" tuning that I use. Being able to set up an arbitrary tuning would serve this purpose as well, although I suspect generalizing that function might be more work than it is worth.

It would also be nice to see other scales, such as major and minor pentatonic and blues scales.

I've used jguitar.com in the past for this sort of thing, but I really like visual aspect and unity of guitardashboard. Nice work!

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Re:Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory expl... by asaph on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:24PM (#17991559)
+1 for mentioning https://jguitar.com/ which I created.
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Re:Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory expl... by zen3d on Friday September 14, 2018 @07:02PM (#17991782)
There aren't a lot of tools for exploring fingering for non-standard tunings, and jguitar.com has served my explorations for the past couple of years.

jguitar.com is also very comprehensive in terms of chord fingering, scales, etc.

One major difference between jquitar.com and guitardashboard.com is that the facets (tuning, chords, scales, etc.) are separated from one other on jguitar.com, whereas guitardashboard.com tries to place them all onto a single screen. My initial reaction to guitardashboard.com is that this approach does succeed. However, jguitar.com has more to offer in total.

My thanks to both authors for helping us explorers of alternate tunings. Any help we can get is appreciated.

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