Here's an expensive versionbenjamind wrote:Way overpriced? I doubt it. Underpriced maybe, but certainly not overpriced.
True musical education is not something that money can buy, sure you can pay tutors and even go to university, but this tool is just phenomenal as it shows you an entire palette of chords and also shows the relationships between the nearest harmonically aligned chords. It even shows a keyboard and guitar fretboard with the ability to display the chord or the entire derivative scale, across one octave or all octaves.
I think a MIDI controller with LEDs in the keys that can be programmed to light up in different colours would be perfect for this - the chord keys would be lit up in red and the scale keys would be lit up in blue or green or purple, etc. The rest would be unlit. I think there would be a viable market for such a MIDI keyboard. The key lighting features could be easily implemented and programmed via SYSEX messages.
That would really make this program useful for total beginners. But it isn't hard for me to learn scales, I've already got major, minor, blues covered. But having keys light up so you instantly know which keys are relevant to the given chord/scale would be great for beginners.
Ben
PianoBar:
http://www.moogmusic.com/detail.php?main_product_id=71
let's get a team together to create a DIY kit!