geekar 1.0

Guitar learning application for the Linux terminal

Geekar

Geekar is a guitar learning application for the Linux terminal.

Features

It features an interactive fretboard that displays:

• Major and natural minor scales
• Major and minor pentatonic scales
• Scale notes and degrees
• Triads for each scale degree

Geekar facilitates study of the CAGED system. For each supported scale it colors the fretboard accordingly.

The interactive fretboard is playable. Click on a fretboard location and listen to the corresponding pitch.

Supported scales can also be played. Geekar suggests the finger that should be used.

A very simple metronome has also been included in the application.

Build

Geekar has been written using the textualize framework.

It has the following system dependencies:

• fluidsynth

To build the application, execute on a Python virtual environment:

pip install -e ".[dev]"

License

Geekar has been created by human beings for human beings. It is a free and open source project licensed under AGPL v3 only. If you find its code as training input for non-foss ML models consider it stolen.