I made a tool for learning scales, chords, and how to combine them
Details
- External ID
- 48211334
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I made a tool for learning scales, chords, and how to combine them
- Website domain
- alesh.com
- Launched
- May 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 36
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8077544426494345
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
This started out when I vibe-coded a guitar scale fingering generator. It came out pretty good, and I started adding stuff to it: chords, then how chords and scales interact.Then I added charts for other instruments I mess around with: piano, cello, alto recorder.There's a complexity toggle to go from basic harmony to extended/experimental stuff.It's honestly still mostly a toy, but I thought other people might be interested in playing with it. Source is on github, so it's easy enough to run locally and fork.https://github.com/aleshh/gtr-scales
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and learning tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- music theory learning tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author explicitly vibe-coded this music theory visualization tool, which relies on standard deterministic music theory formulas and interactive UI charts.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Tab PDFs for scale reference, AlphaTab for music notation, Flipper.fm (creator's other project)
Concerns raised: Too cluttered UI for quick reference, Overpromising in title - not beginner-friendly, Arbitrary music theory jargon deters beginners, LLM-generated design looks generic/generic vibe coding aesthetic, Sound quality is very basic
Feature requests: Interactive fretboard box overlay to mark 4-5 fret positions, Play button near top or spacebar hotkey for quick sound playback, Support for Banjo and other instruments, Better quality instrument sounds, Simpler UI with less information density
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 160 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #41 of 161 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 201 days after the earliest competitor.
- Interactive Chord Finder, Free Piano Scale and Chord Explorer · hn · 2026-02-16 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Umaro · hn · 2026-01-11 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Piano Fingers Piano Scale & Chord Tool · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- A different approach to intonation training · hn · 2026-02-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- See chords as flags · hn · 2025-11-05 · 129 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Open Chord: Learn Guitar · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition · hn · 2026-04-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GuitarHub: Tuner & Metronome · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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