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184 points apizon | 4 comments | | HN request time: 0.625s | source

Hello HN, I just released this music theory and ear training mobile app for guitar which I've been working on for a bit more than a year on the side.

The idea was to make something for the eternally "intermediate" guitarist (myself included). There are a lot of beginner apps which rely on learning songs, toolkits which give you a bunch of stuff with no explanation but not many in-between apps to actually learn and practice more generic and somewhat advanced stuff.

The app contains short lessons, recaps and most importantly challenges (visual, audio and pure theory) along with a very complete library.

The challenges are made for practicing, they will get increasingly harder and getting to the max score is supposed to be quite hard. The idea being that you have to repeat them regularly until your brain has integrated the info and it flows naturally rather than being a one time quick dopamine shot. This is partly inspired by how language learning apps work.

It has no ads, a lifetime purchase option and you can use it without an account if you don't care about multi-device sync or backing up your progress.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apizon.cad...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cadence-guitar-theory/id674701...

(This is my second and last post about this sorry for spam. My first post a few weeks ago didn't get any views and posting on a saturday might not have helped...)

1. rixed ◴[] No.45670892[source]
Thank you, this looks nice and useful, will definitively give it a try. For now, the only thing to report is that some screens are too long for my iphone7 and therefore I'm missing the end of a few sentences here and there. Would send screenshots if I knew how to reach you.
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2. rixed ◴[] No.45670928[source]
Also, thank you so much for allowing an actual purchase!
3. apizon ◴[] No.45672772[source]
Thanks for the feedback

I'm not sure if it's allowed to post an email here so I'll refer you to the app itself: there is a "Support and contact" button on the settings page.

I'm definitely interested in seeing those screenshots if you can as text is supposed to wrap around nicely

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4. rixed ◴[] No.45678501[source]
Just did. Couldn't do it from the iphone because it insists on reinstalling apple's mail app for every email links.

BTW, I believe you can leave an email on your profile, not sure if advisable though.