1. Bottom colored dots are connected to shape colors, nothing else. Those shapes are often (in guitar literature) referenced by number, 1 to 5 (e.g. pentatonic shape 1), I decided to use colors 2. Pentanizer is adding interval colors. It splits "scaler" shapes into 5 micro interval shapes. It is explained in https://grunfy.com/updates.html section and this video might help to understand the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3DCpJlGQFA&feature=youtu.be... 3. I use some own JS on top of http://svgjs.com/ library...I'll need to cleanup things and make it somewhat "stable" before opensourcing it.

could you be any more constructive, I mean, which parts are confusing / none intuitive?

I'm having a hard time looking at the scale and making sense of it without having to orient myself and think about it a lot. I think this could be fixed with a different visual display, such as less or different colors and more contrast.

I also wasn't sure what effect some of the controls were having, but I think it might be because I am on my phone.

A couple issues/questions on desktop:

- the hover effect makes the lighter color buttons seem to disappear, especially once pressed

- I have no idea what the R button does or why

- pentatonic major is an uncommon scale and odd choice for default - pentatonic minor might be better, or just major

R marks "relative" major/minor, for example: A minor pentatonic is relative to C major pentatonic (contains same notes/shapes, just root note is different). I can/could change defaults, but, all your presets should be saved between the sessions (your next visit). I am in the middle of making some interface changes, hopefully buttons will behave better after it. Thanks for feedback.

You're welcome, i may have some more feedback.

One thing I want to mention is that tool tips or other onscreen help would be useful.

I was thinking about tooltips but those are tricky to implement for mobile devices (although I haven't spend much time making it usable for small screens/devices)

True, i didn't notice the lack of hover tips until I used the desktop. But if it's oriented towards desktop, might as well put them in?

It can be quite intimidating at first I guess. It makes (starts to make) sense once you turn off some shapes and start connecting them together one by one.

I am not sure if you had a look at the "pentanizer" parts, but that one is even worse at first sight, but once you isolate certain parts I think (very subjective) it becomes helpful if you study interval parts.

I have one bit of constructive criticism for you. Every single Major/Minor scale should have exactly one each of ABCDEFG, so that written music makes sense — each line/space corresponds to a "letter", and the key signature tells you how sharp/flat that "letter" is. The tool gets this wrong for example in C# major, where you should have the 3rd step be E# instead of F, and the 7th step to be B# instead of C. A particularly pathological case is D# major, where almost all notes are misnamed — You should have D# E#, F##, G# A# B# C##.

Hi, yes, that's a known issue. I added flat/sharp button as an option, but, I think that makes things even worse. I am working on a fix for this...

I'll add more scales in the future, for time being you could check https://grunfy.com/modenizer.html It has different coloring, but you can use 1-5 shapes to "dissect" it

I hope this might help (I am not very good at explaining it): https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/17426/naming-scale...

Cool. I understand now after reading the discussions in the link a few times. Sadly, I never delved very deep into music theory, despite having played guitar for nearly 20 years.

Give it a shot, it's worth it. I also played for years before I started looking into theory part, but I wish I started way earlier.

unfortunately, not at the moment. I think with some code "flipping" it would be easy to support. I;ll look into it.

sorry about that, just downloaded firefox on android and for me it does render the fretboard but it only takes like 1/3 of the screen. Will look into it asap.

No problem at all, excited to check it out all the same when I get back to my laptop.

to be honest, I targeted desktop audience, and running linux (and android) myself, I am bit limited in this (testing) area. I might be getting an iOSmac device soon so that might help. What browser/OS are you using?

The scale name buttons don’t have any effect for me on the iPhone. Their rendered state changes but that’s it.

iOS/safari

added to my .plan (stay tuned;-)..no pun intended)

I'll introduce alternate tuning, although it might take few months as I am busy with some other improvements (printing being one of them)