Create README for Chord Drill Sergeant
See the README for more information. I've wanted to use an application like this for awhile. I would like to start developing this soon.
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| # Chord Drill Sergeant (CDS) | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Are you a musician looking for a more effective way to improve your craft? Maybe | ||||
| you're a music teacher looking to create useful exercises to give your students. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Studying music theory can be a fruitful undertaking, but it can often overwhelm | ||||
| or bore students. I think that if practicing is enjoyable, students will | ||||
| practice more. Practice doesn't make perfect; *perfect* practice makes perfect. | ||||
| Chord Drill Sergeant is a web app that lowers the barrier to practicing and | ||||
| internalizing music theory. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| ## How does it work? | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 1. Grab a cell phone or a laptop and your instrument. | ||||
| 2. Open a web browser and visit the Chord Drill Sergeant app (URL and app forthcoming). | ||||
| 3. Set the tempo at which you would like to practice. | ||||
| 4. Set the target duration of your session. | ||||
| 5. Select the key(s) and chord(s) you would like to practice. | ||||
| 6. Set the tempo (i.e. pace) at which you would like to practice. | ||||
| 7. CDS will display chords at various rhythmic intervals during your practice | ||||
|    session. It is your job to play these chords in time before the next chord | ||||
|    appears. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| ## Highlights | ||||
| 
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| Here are some useful features of CDS: | ||||
| - Tempo: Set the rate at which CDS displays chords. | ||||
| - Predefined practice sessions: CDS offers users a few practice sessions to get | ||||
|   users started. The goal, however, is to teach users to create their own | ||||
|   bespoke practice sessions. CDS aims to foster a community of practitioners who | ||||
|   curate and share their practice sessions. | ||||
| - Whitelist / blacklist: Construct the set of chords you would like to | ||||
|   practice. Let's say you only want to practice triads in the keys of F, C, and | ||||
|   G. Would you also like to avoid diminished chords? Or maybe you *only* want to | ||||
|   practice major-7th chords for *all* keys. CDS supports all of these scenarios | ||||
|   and many others. You can save these chord configurations to reuse them at any | ||||
|   time. You can also share chord configurations with other CDS users if you find | ||||
|   the practice useful. | ||||
| - Inversions: Every chord has inversions. For instance, every triad (i.e. chord | ||||
|   composed of three notes) has three inversions: root, second, and third | ||||
|   positions. CDS acknowledges all of the positions in which chords may appear | ||||
|   and helps you study all, some, or none of these inversions. | ||||
| - Harmony: CDS understands basic harmony and can sort the chords you would like | ||||
|   to train in various harmonious permutations. | ||||
| - Chaos-mode: Feeling confident? Throw the classical notions of harmony to the | ||||
|   wayside and use CDS in "chaos-mode" where CDS samples randomly from the Circle | ||||
|   of Fifths. | ||||
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