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gabergg

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Founder of Songcraft, an online collaborative songwriting platform. https://songcraft.io. Contact me at gabe@songcraft.io.
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gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
That's really neat! It already looks so much better than typing it all out, which so many tools still have you do. I'm planning on integrating a similar tool into Songcraft, but not sure the exact form it'll take. Thanks for sharing :)
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
Thanks so much for the feedback.

On desktop, you can hit a hotkey (Alt/Ctrl + w) to send the nearest word directly to the dictionary to the right, which is a time-saver. However, I think there's also something to be said for some sort of autocomplete, especially if it can take into account the context, previous lines, etc. I'm hoping to do a similar thing with chord recommendations as well.

I completely agree that the rhythm and stress of lyrics would be valuable to analyze. It's going to be one of my major takeaways from today's feedback - I'll just have to figure out a nice clean way to include it!

gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
Thanks for trying it! There's no support for Maj7(no3) chords at the moment. It's a less common pattern, but would be easy to add support! At the moment, I'm using tonal for chord recognition under the hood, so these are the chord types that it can recognize: https://github.com/danigb/tonal/blob/master/packages/diction...
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
Yeah, I think Hookpad does some really cool things (and they have a neat prediction API), but I couldn't find anything that really fits my songwriting process as a whole. Thanks for checking it out :)
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
That's a really interesting idea, thanks for sharing. I've heard some similar things from a person I was talking to who writes a lot of rap and poetry. I'm excited to explore that space a bit!
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
Thanks so much for checking it out. Excited to hear your thoughts!
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
This is really valuable, thanks for the thoughtful feedback!

- I'm considering making all panels resizeable, I think it would be really helpful. Also planning to build out the dictionary capabilities more.

- A friend of mine suggested the exact same thing re: lyric alternatives. I really like this idea.

- Are you on Safari? There's a bug with dragging selected chords on Safari. You also won't be able to play chords live. Chrome and Firefox should be good (I hope!)

- Really curious to explore some of the chord manipulation ideas as well as bringing a project from creative phase to production.

gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
Thanks for checking it out! For the beta, I took mobile web to a pretty minimal state. I know it will be a huge use case for a lot of people, so I really want to have first-rate support on mobile. It helps a lot to hear the types of features you need. Please do keep up with development - I'd love to hear your thoughts as mobile support improves!
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
I really appreciate the feedback. What type of piano support would sell you on it? I'd love to hear how Songcraft works, or doesn't work, for your process if you give it a shot. Please feel free to reach out if you have thoughts, ideas, requests, etc.
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
This is a great idea. Experimentation and recommendation of chord progressions is my top feature priority at the moment. I think there could be some really interesting and useful stuff here. Thanks for sharing!
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
Right now it's closed, but I plan to open source at least some of the cooler pieces of it :) Likely some of the recommendation and audio stuff. Haven't had much time to think about that yet though!
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
Thanks for the feedback - that's really helpful! I totally agree that chord chart is more accurate than tab at the moment. I'm working out the messaging still and trying to balance its current state with my vision for it (which will include single-note features)!
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
I should note that everything should work fine on updated Chrome and Firefox, but no guarantees on other browsers!
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
At the moment, I suggest common chords in the same key as the rest of the song. I'm working on a recommendation system that will take more into account the music theory of progressions as well as common existing patterns found in different styles of music. Super excited to have a decent system for that, as it's one of the main things that I personally want to use in my songwriting.
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
The MP3 syncing is a super cool idea - did you analyze the MP3 at all to smooth syncing between sync points? Also love the little video, thanks for sharing! I think collaboration has huge value for any tool like this - it'll be one of my earlier priorities for Songcraft.
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
Thank you! OnSong looks cool - I hadn't heard of it. I'd love to make Songcraft performance-ready as well, I think it would be a very natural feature. Looking forward to your feedback!
gabergg··on Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder
Thank you so much! I was really surprised I couldn't find a thing like this anywhere. I've got so many ideas - looking forward to turning it into an even more serious tool :)
gabergg··on ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification
http://www.react.express is intended as a learning resource for those used to ES5 Javascript. Granted, it's for learning React through modern Javascript, so it may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it has interactive sections for new ES6 and ES7 features.
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