it looks like I can click on the tiny keyboard, but nothing happens when I do, other than the color changing. I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to do with this, or how it will help me learn chords and scales.
If I'm shown a keyboard I expect to click it and make sound (thanks, MYST). This does nothing.
The only instructions "e.g. Cm7b5" means nothing to me. I can only assume its target market is the people that understand whatever this notation is, in which case they don't need to learn.
FAIL.
I don't know/play piano. I know the basic music theory behind the notation. I think this tool is great.
This tool appears to be aimed at piano noobs with some music background.
I wanted to keep the UI very minimal, so that once you learned the features the interface was very simple. But you bring up a good point that first-time users might get confused.
I'll put this on my todo list and try to figure out a way to provide help for first time visitors while not cluttering the UI for experienced users.