A while back I blogged about music theory for geeks and got a lot of feedback from my fellow musicians (some geek some not). Then I blogged for over a month about a new technology named Dojo Toolkit, which essentially is a JavaScript toolkit to create really cool looking AJAX/Web 2.0 applications. As a pet [...]
About 6 weeks ago I started a pet project to experiment with Dojo Toolkit which I tentatively called Musician’s Friend. My goal was to see whether this technology is really mature and stable enough to be used in an enterprise grade software project, and to create an application that might one day [...]
This week I’ll complete the chord and scale definitions and add some functionality to the application.
There is a large number of chords, most of which I believe is now included in our application. I omitted some rarely used chords which spread out to two octaves. Also note that some added notes, such as ninths, elevenths, [...]
I left it where we had a simple GUI that didn’t do much last week. This time I’ll try to implement a simple, but working version of our little Musician’s Helper application. My primary design goal is to make this really intuitive and useful for a musician who wants to figure out or practice [...]