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# Learn Piano Chords (LPC)
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Are you a musician looking for a more effective way to improve your craft? Maybe
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you're a music teacher looking to create useful exercises to give your students.
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Studying music theory can be a fruitful undertaking, but it can often overwhelm
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or bore students. I think that if practicing is enjoyable, students will
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practice more. Practice doesn't make perfect; *perfect* practice makes perfect.
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Learn Piano Chords is a web app that lowers the barrier to practicing and
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internalizing music theory.
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## How does it work?
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1. Grab a cell phone or a laptop and your instrument.
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2. Open a web browser and visit the Learn Piano Chords app (URL and app
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forthcoming).
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6. Set the tempo (i.e. pace) at which you would like to practice.
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4. Set the target duration of your session.
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5. Select the key(s) and chord(s) you would like to practice.
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7. LPC will display chords at various rhythmic intervals during your practice
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session. It is your job to play these chords in time before the next chord
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appears.
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## Highlights
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Here are some useful features of LPC:
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- Tempo: Set the rate at which LPC displays chords.
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- Predefined practice sessions: LPC offers users a few practice sessions to get
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users started. The goal, however, is to teach users to create their own
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bespoke practice sessions. LPC aims to foster a community of practitioners who
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curate and share their practice sessions.
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- Whitelist / blacklist: Construct the set of chords you would like to
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practice. Let's say you only want to practice triads in the keys of F, C, and
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G. Would you also like to avoid diminished chords? Or maybe you *only* want to
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practice major-7th chords for *all* keys. LPC supports all of these scenarios
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and many others. You can save these chord configurations to reuse them at any
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time. You can also share chord configurations with other LPC users if you find
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the practice useful.
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- Inversions: Every chord has inversions. For instance, every triad (i.e. chord
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composed of three notes) has three inversions: root, second, and third
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positions. LPC acknowledges all of the positions in which chords may appear
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and helps you study all, some, or none of these inversions.
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- Harmony: LPC understands basic harmony and can sort the chords you would like
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to train in various harmonious permutations.
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- Chaos-mode: Feeling confident? Throw the classical notions of harmony to the
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wayside and use LPC in "chaos-mode" where LPC samples randomly from the Circle
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of Fifths.
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## Developing
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If you're interested in contributing, the following will create an environment
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in which you can develop:
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```shell
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$ nix-shell
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$ elm-live -- src/Main.elm --output=elm.js
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```
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