nowurplaying · Guitar Theory Course
The interactive curriculum for stuck guitar players.
nowurplaying · Guitar Theory Course launched on April 24, 2026 with 2 votes, #4,561 of 21,248 launches that month.
What it does
Most guitarists hit a wall: they know shapes but not sounds, and the pentatonic box becomes a prison. nowurplaying is a 5-week course designed to bridge the gap between "playing songs" and "understanding music." Unlike static video courses, this is a living curriculum with: Dynamic Diagrams: Fretboard maps that transpose and adapt to what you’re learning. Contextual Examples: Apply theory to genres you actually like. Auto-Rotating Exercises: New daily challenges
Learn music theory through guitar — scales, chords, intervals, harmony, and composition — in five guided weeks. Free to start.
A focused, no-fluff theory course for guitarists who've played for years but can't break through the plateau. Not a collection of tips. A curriculum that actually builds. Five weeks. One concept at a time. Each week builds on the last. No overload, no filler. Just the theory that connects what you already play. The major scale, intervals, the harmonized scale, and Nashville Numbers. The bedrock everything else hangs on. Week One is free and always open. Go from knowing which chords fit a key to choosing voicings with intention — richer sounds, placed anywhere on the neck. Break out of the single box permanently. Connect all five positions across the neck and learn when targeting chord tones…from nowurplaying.com
Does a similar job
all alternatives →
Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists2018 · guitardashboard.com · ▲590A free, open source, music theory explorer for guitarists. Discover how scales and modes map to the fretboard and how chords work within scales.
I created a game to memorize the fretboard2023 · fretboardfly.com · ▲258Hey guys I've been playing the guitar for many years but I felt like I had hit a wall and wasnt making progress. One of the things I realized was holding me back was unfamiliarity with the fretboard. I'd often find myself in situations like “Uhh…Where’s the C# here?” “Where’s the flat-3rd of this root on the 4th string?” “Sure would be nice to know the closest min7 triad shape to play over here..” I tried memorizing the fretboard the obvious way but it extreeemly boring for me. Being a developer, I decided to turn it into a game. I'd love for you guys to try it out and let me know what you…
How to Play the Guitar in the Time It Takes to Watch This Video [3:15]2017 · youtube.com · ▲17
Cadence – A guitar theory app2025 · cadenceguitar.com · ▲195Hello HN, I just released this music theory and ear training mobile app for guitar which I've been working on for a bit more than a year on the side. The idea was to make something for the eternally "intermediate" guitarist (myself included). There are a lot of beginner apps which rely on learning songs, toolkits which give you a bunch of stuff with no explanation but not many in-between apps to actually learn and practice more generic and somewhat advanced stuff. The app contains short lessons, recaps and most importantly challenges (visual, audio and pure theory) along with a very complete…
- FGFaChords – Guitar Learning Software and Science-Based Practice Lessons2022 · fachords.com · ▲19
Understand how chords, scales, progressions and the guitar fretboard connect. Free step-by-step lessons, PDF ebooks and interactive tools.
More life & fun this month
the category →
A free city-building game in your browser. You are the mayor. You know what the city needs. Now get it past the zoning board, the neighbors, the appeals court and the next election.
Life & fun · 2d ago · permit.petercai.com
- IV
Life & fun · 14d ago · tanzaniaeducationproject.org
Turn a phone, tablet or TV into a sign. Type a message and it fills the screen: welcome signs, timers, Wi-Fi passwords and more. No app, no account, free.
Life & fun · 15d ago · bigwords.page
Play a free virtual guitar online with your keyboard or by touch. Slow songs down and see every chord, string and strum. Acoustic, classic, electric and bass.
Life & fun · 9d ago · guitoro.com
Carrier settings from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware, decoded and compared: APNs, VoLTE, 5G and Wi-Fi Calling per carrier, and what each build changed.
Life & fun · 13d ago · carrierexplode.com
Life & fun · 23d ago · space.bl2.net
Source: Product Hunt launch ↗
Launched alongside, April 2026
the whole month →
- AG
Thought the resources for GPU arch were lacking, so here we are
Life & fun · Apr 2026 · jaso1024.com
Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.
AI · Apr 2026 · github.com
I made a laptop stand out of solid concrete, in the style of brutalist architecture, with themes of urbex and urban decay
Life & fun · Apr 2026 · sam-burns.com
With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.
AI · Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app