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An incredibly over-engineered little game built to iron out my toy rust engine. Uses a rust => wasm => webgl architecture. I grew up playing music without learning the fundamentals and wanted to help myself mentally bake in more of the "theory". Disclosure - I used plenty of claude code to help me along the way.

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munch-o-man
this is pretty neat. I often toy with making music related shit...I love music theory...went to a music conservatory and then accidentally ended up in software years later...simple ear training is a skill that especially guitar players lack and having an easy way to drill yourself in private is great!

FYI when I went through the third cycle of it, it got stuck cycling through keys but repeating the major arpeggio followed by the note to identify being the ii pattern probably 4 times. Not sure if that was random chance or an actual issue...but very cool. Where is the code? I'd love to star it so that I remember to keep an eye on it..or even drill myself every now and then haha.

This probably won't mean much to a lot of people here, especially since there is sort of an assumed level of understanding going in (scale degrees, roman numeral chord notation with uppercase for major and lowercase for minor, or what a cadence is or what those different types of cadences are) but for those of us that went to music school...especially those who hadn't had a traditional music education from an early age with ear training...definitely would have actually drilled myself with this.