Tarang: Learn

The problem

Beginner guitar content is either a wall of chord diagrams or a video that cannot slow down. Learners need to hear what a strum actually is, one beat at a time, before a chord chart means anything.

Constraints

• ·Assume zero theory; every chapter has to compound the previous one.
• ·Real guitar sound, not a synthesiser — a learner should recognise what they hear from a real instrument.
• ·Work with or without a guitar in hand, on a phone or a laptop.

The approach, in order

1. /01

   Sequenced the material as seven short chapters: fretboard, a chord, the strum, patterns, keys, voicings, free play.

2. /02

   Built a sample-based guitar engine so a strum is six strings sounding in time, not one synthetic chord.

3. /03

   Slowed the strum down visually and audibly with a beat timeline so the learner sees each string sound.

4. /04

   Kept each chapter independent so a learner can jump in, but designed the order to build.

What it does now

A complete beginner can go from hearing one string to strumming a pattern in a key, with the option to keep going in the free-play sandbox.