# Webeleon Notes

> Notes on music theory, practice, and the software we're building at Webeleon.

Webeleon is an upcoming music assistant for web and mobile. This blog shares practical, clearly-written notes on music theory, the software we're building, and how to practise — written to be useful to humans and machines alike.

## Pillars

- Music Theory: Harmony, melody, and rhythm in plain language — the why behind the music, written so it actually sticks.
- Music Software: How we're building Webeleon — the engineering and design decisions behind your upcoming music assistant.
- Practice: Routines and drills that turn theory into muscle memory — short, practical, repeatable.

## Posts

- [Inside Arpèges: designing one-tap practice](https://webeleon.dev/blog/inside-arpeges-one-tap-practice.md): A build note on Arpèges — why the whole design bends around getting from a cold start to your first arpeggio rep in a single tap, and what I gave up to protect that.
- [Arpèges v7 — release notes](https://webeleon.dev/blog/arpeges-v7-release-notes.md): What shipped in Arpèges v7: gesture navigation. Swipe back through the cards you drew, slide the fret window a fret at a time along the neck, with steppers and arrow keys for every move.
- [ii–V–I everywhere: the progression hiding in your playlists](https://webeleon.dev/blog/ii-v-i-everywhere.md): The ii–V–I is the most common cadence in Western harmony. Here is how it works in C, how to move it to any key by function, and where it keeps hiding.
- [Practice you can move through](https://webeleon.dev/blog/practice-you-can-move-through.md): Arpèges v7 adds two gestures — slide the fret window up the neck, swipe back to the card you just nailed. Both come from one idea: practice should never be a one-way street.
- [A progression isn't a song](https://webeleon.dev/blog/a-progression-is-not-a-song.md): Four looping chords are one section of a song, not the song. What bars, phrases, repetition, and forms actually do — and how Homechord v3 came to model them.
- [An arpeggio is a chord taken apart](https://webeleon.dev/blog/arpeggio-is-a-chord-taken-apart.md): An arpeggio is just the notes of a chord played one at a time. Here is how to build one from a triad, name its tones, and find it on the fretboard.
- [Homechord v3 — release notes](https://webeleon.dev/blog/homechord-v3-release-notes.md): What shipped in Homechord v3: the Compose strip grows into a song timeline — sections, bar durations, half-bar splits, repeats and an arrangement — plus five starter forms, a caret-aware coach, structured share links, sectioned charts and exports, and an Android APK on request.
- [Arpèges v6 — release notes](https://webeleon.dev/blog/arpeges-v6-release-notes.md): What shipped in Arpèges v6: scales and modes join the arpeggios on one card, a new Type lock, 21 scales and modes, a session split, and an Android APK on request.
- [One workshop, three tools — the new Webeleon](https://webeleon.dev/blog/hello-webeleon.md): Webeleon is now a one-person workshop making practice software for musicians — what changed, the three tools I ship, and how I use them every week.
- [Scales meet arpeggios: one drill for the whole fretboard](https://webeleon.dev/blog/scales-and-arpeggios-one-drill.md): Arpèges now deals scales and modes off the same deck as the arpeggios. Why practising the two together — not in separate sessions — is the thing that actually moves your playing.
- [Voice Leading in Four Parts](https://webeleon.dev/blog/voice-leading-in-four-parts.md): How to move four independent voices smoothly between chords — common-tone retention, contrary motion, and the small steps that keep a progression singable.
- [How We Render Chords in MDX](https://webeleon.dev/blog/how-we-render-chords-in-mdx.md): A build note on the Webeleon blog pipeline — how authored MDX turns into brand-styled chord symbols, why we map components instead of raw HTML, and where the safety pass fits.
- [Building a Daily Practice Loop](https://webeleon.dev/blog/building-a-daily-practice-loop.md): A repeatable daily practice structure — a short warm-up, one focused target, and a quick review — designed to compound small gains instead of chasing marathon sessions.
- [The Circle of Fifths, Practically](https://webeleon.dev/blog/circle-of-fifths-practically.md): A working musician’s tour of the circle of fifths — reading key signatures, finding closely related keys, and using the wheel to plan modulations on the fly.

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