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jeremiecoullon
this is great. The Kohl concert is hard to type at the right pace though :)
disillusioned
Was just trying it. You have to try to guess where the interstitial notes will appear...
mortenjorck
I thought I would be familiar enough with Blue in Green to get the tempo right, but my memory was no match for Bill Evans' improvisational style!
[dead] foodigger
yeah your practically Miles Davis, without talent.
zakk
Reminds me of Mikutap: https://aidn.jp/mikutap/
screye
This was incredibly fun. I just spent 10 minutes making what sounded pretty good to my ears.
moreira
Oh my god this is the best thing ever. I want to save this as audio to listen to.
maddyboo
That was awesome! I really want to make something like this now. I love how the samples are queued and played in time with the tempo.
exabrial
ARGH How do I resolve to major????
exabrial
Also, can't figure out how to play the lick
recursive
There doesn't seem to be a way to affect the pitch, so figuring out how to play anything in particular is going to be tough.
exabrial
Dammit, just play the right notes
kanobo
Sounds nice, I like the minimalist look. But I think it would be a giant leap if the music was somehow related to what is being typed. Also it took a while to load, it could use a loading progress indicator — I thought it was broken and was opening it in different browsers thinking Safari wasn't supported.
christiansakai
I press the same letter on a keyboard and it just makes some jazz licks. How do I intend to play this?
ralmeida
Nice touch that deleting letters descends chromatically. Letters typed appear unrelated to notes generated, you can type the same letter and it will keep generating different notes.

Also, it seems it will never resolve to the root, no matter what you type :(

luckydata
Never give any satisfaction to the listener, no matter what, pretty much the most important rule of high brow jazz.
spacechild1
it makes you keep typing and be more productive. very clever, if you ask me.
diimdeep
In network inspector you can find midi files that can be downloaded and played for example in VLC.
RBerenguel
I need this as an emacs mode. Would make coding feel different
grimmdude
Ha very cool! I like that punctuation marks add some flair.
smrk007
I want this as a VSCode or Vim extension!
jwalton
Maybe something discordant when you type in a variable name that isn't defined? :D
djohnston
wow if writing clean code improv'd a jazz piece i could definitely go back to coding 12 hours a day
jdpigeon
godamnit, another side project idea that I'll never find the time to finish!
forgetcolor
This is mostly just using the keyboard to manipulate the rhythm/time performance of a pre-configured score. Interesting, but not what most would think of as jazz improvisation.
hammock
Not exactly. It is far more random than that. As far as I can tell, it plays random notes from a pre-loaded scale - occasionally chords, and punctuation marks play chords. Backspace plays a descending scale.

The aesthetics of it, including typography and sounds are very nice.

And typing () leads to a special easter egg :)

oplav
That's the case in "Free Form" mode.

If you click the eight note with a plus next you get pre-configured scores that you can just manipulate the rhythm on.

hammock
Wow I did not see the controls over there at all
Trufa
Vague related shameless plug, if anyone wants to give me feedback on this: https://practicemusic.net/ I'd gladly take it!
cmrdsprklpny
This might be intentional on your part, but it seems to mark enharmonic equivalents as incorrect (a 5th from Gb is Db, which is the same as C# but C# is marked as incorrect).
wcarss
make it give a way to show the answer and/or move on -- I don't know what I'm doing, but I could learn if it taught me.
zoytek
Love it.. I reckon I could write an EP for listening to on the way to work!
[dead] danonino
Jazz in Hacker News. Should I submit something about reggaeton next? This is getting RIDICULOUS. Gimme the old HN back!
jimwhite
This is great. Would love to be able to enable this on my keyboard for typing everything as a bit of an upgrade over my super clicky mechanical keyboard.
modeless
Would be cool to do sentiment analysis on the typed text to switch between major/minor or other characteristics.
ipiz0618
Genius!! From what I can tell it seems to be random keys? Would be nice if a certain progression can be specified, but this is already awesome. Saving this as my new note taking tool.
corytheboyd
I have a feature request BESIDES make it less random! When you delete all text with select all and then backspace/del it should make a huge loud combination of noises!