Learning guitar

[madscijr]

Here's a screen shot of a C minor scale displaying the V chord Gmin notes in yellow. I haven't tried alternative scales, other than the modal stuff, but my scale algorithm should be able to accommodate them. The code uses a 12 element true/false byte array that I rotate in a manner similar to how bits are rotated with _ROL & _ROR. That happens in SUB RotArrayM. Each element of the array corresponds to a note in the chromatic scale. That way I just align the tonic notes in the note array and starting point depending on the mode, then iterate through the note array picking out those that align with true and rejecting the false ones. Just drop a couple of select trues from the byte array and you've got a pentatonic builder. 

Rotating an array - my vb6 guitar tab app worked similarly for transposing songs. I don't know what a tonic note is... jeez, I don't know what any of that stuff is, it looks really complicated, but it's impressive how you have that all worked out. 

Now here's a question, can that app be used to hear what these different musical concepts sound like? Because my main frustration with trying to learn music theory has always been that I can't go one sentence without some term or other coming up where I need to hear what they're talking about, since my orientation is purely by ear. If there were an app that just serves as a combination music dictionary / sound board for all those concepts, that would be useful for me.