🎸 ChordFlow

ChordFlow is a GUI Desktop app and TUI (Terminal User Interface) tool designed to help guitarists/musicians practice improvisation and master the guitar neck by providing dynamic chord progressions with a built-in metronome.

Grab the latest release

✨ Features

• 🎵 Metronome with Custom Sounds – Supports SoundFont-based metronome ticks.
• 🔄 Random Chord Generation – Generate new chords every bar to improve improvisation skills.
• 📊 Visual Progress Bar – Displays the current beat and bar progress.
• 🎼 Real-Time Chord Display – Shows the current and upcoming chord.
• ⚙️ Customizability – Users can supply their own SoundFont for metronome ticks and chord sounds.
• 🎥 TUI demo
• 🎥 Desktop GUI demo

📦 Installation

1. Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/timvancann/chordflow
cd chordflow
cargo build --release

2. Grab the latest release

🚀 Usage

TUI

./chordflow_tui --help

Usage: chordflow [OPTIONS]

Options:
      --bpm <INT>              BPM (Beats per minute) [default: 100]
  -b, --bars-per-chord <INT>   Number of bars per chord [default: 2]
  -t, --ticks-per-bar <INT>    Number of beats per bar [default: 4]
  -s, --soundfont <SOUNDFONT>  Soundfont file path
  -h, --help                   Print help

GUI

Install Dioxus CLI

cd chordflow_desktop
dx serve

🏗️ Roadmap

• Fix Linux release
• Add more scales (e.g. melodic minor)
• Better feedback and UI on custom progressions
• Allow dynamically update the number of beats per bar
• Use Dioxux to create a GUI native app

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit issues and pull requests.

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature-name)
3. Commit changes (git commit -m "Added cool feature")
4. Push to branch (git push origin feature-name)
5. Open a pull request